“Could be” they arrest Jarmo Kekalainen in connection with the malfunction of the Bellagio fountain when it’s discovered the reason for the malfunction is the bodies of Pierre-Luc Dubois and Patrik Laine have been shoved into the underground water works.
“Could be” Bettman cancels the draft for spots 2-12 and gives all of those players to Columbus. Later, footage from “another angle” shows Don Waddell with his right arm up the back of Bettman’s suit coat. Bissonette says on Spittin Chiclets, “I thought Gary was surprisingly unshaky there.” Elliott Friedman is fired for making a “Weekend at Gary’s” reference. In a last-ditch effort to save his job, Friedman says he meant performing artist The Weeknd, who actually was a guest of the commissioner’s for the draft.
“Could be” the club announced it is dropping the nickname “Blue Jackets” in an overdue acknowledgment that the name was indeed based on the white-man-turned-Indian-chief story and not some cockamamie yarn about Civil War uniforms. “What about the Penitentiary jinx?” Scheig asks and Mike Priest scolds him for perpetuating this other piece of nonsense because the Pen was like where the park and condos are located, not where the arena was built, closing the diatribe with “you dolt.” In a corresponding move, Waddell names
@KallioWeHardlyKnewYe Special assistant to the GM.
“Could be” the organization has shipped the cannon to Vegas in secret and is threatening to quote “lay waste to the strip” unless the league goes back and has the team win the coin flip instead of the Wild, meaning it could be a literally “explosive day.”
) and Lindstrom to CBJ.
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