Columbus Blue Jackets’ Rick Nash still untraded as NHL free agency nears an end –NHL Update
Things have not seemed to improve for both Rick Nash and the Columbus as their team was not able to make it into playoffs, getting into the Stanley Cup finals, finishing in the top or improving so they had decided to put him for sale in the month of February.
But it has been almost six months since then and his services are not being acquired by anyone yet.
The Canadian right winger, who was made captain of the Columbus Blue Jackets in the 2008-2009 season and his side had a very embarrassing campaign last year as Blue Jackets finished 15th, at the last place in the regular season of National Hockey
League (NHL).
They suffered 46 losses in the 2011-2012 season, managing to win just 29 games.
Previous seasons were not much difference as they had finished just two places above where they finished last year as they won only 34 of the 82 games played, losing 35 of them. That was their best finish in last three years as Columbus Red Jackets had finished
14th in the first season in which Rick Nash lead them winning 32 out of 82 games, losing 35 of them.
So the story has been pretty much the same for them since Rick Nash is leading as they lost more matches than they have won all three seasons.
General Manager of the Columbus Blue Jackets, Scott Howson, has been very patient in the mean time and has been determined throughout, since the time he made it public that Rick Nash is up for grabs. He made it clear that he will make Nash move, only when
he receives the right offer.
This week, Howson said that,
“There’s no timetable by which we have to make moves. There are no deadlines. We’re going to continue to work at this. A trade with Rick will happen when we get the right value — when and if we get the right value.”
Now the thing to see is, if Nash would be traded before Columbus Blue Jackets’ camp starts because it would be interesting to see if he will attend the camp or not. It would cost him a lot for missing the camp. He would be fined $27,636.36 for each day he
misses the camp, to be exact.
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