The Columbus Dispatch reports that the Columbus Blue Jackets have signed coach Todd Richards to a two-year contract extension, the financial terms of which were not immediately available. Until now, Richards was regarded as the interim head coach. He took over the coaching duties after the Blue Jackets fired Scott Arniel. They had a 11-25-5 record under Arniel and [...]

On the heels of firing Scott Arniel as head coach, Scott Howson is presumably on borrowed time with the Columbus Blue Jackets. “Scott continues to serve at the pleasure of the majority owner,” club president Mike Priest told the Columbus Dispatch. “He continues to have the same authority over hockey matters as he has in the past.” [...]

The Columbus Blue Jackets were forced to call-up Marty York to back up Curtis Sandford after Steve Mason suffered a head injury ahead of Monday’s match with the Calgary Flames. “We’ll see how Mason is today,” coach Scott Arniel said, according to the Columbus Dispatch. “I don’t think it’s as bad as it looked this morning, [...]

Scott Arniel discussed with the Columbus Dispatch that he haven’t given up hope that the Blue Jackets will be the Western Conference team to move to the Eastern Conference for the 2012-13 season and not the Detroit Red Wings. The Winnipeg Jets are playing in the Southeast Division because there wasn’t enough time to realign the conferences after [...]

Aaron Portzline of BlueJacketsXtra discusses the potential of the Blue Jackets being blown up, some notes from the article: “We’ve hit a lot of bottoms this year,” Blue Jackets coach Scott Arniel said. Any club that suffers a 9-2 thumping to fall to 2-11-1 should be prepared for changes, be that a message-sending trade, the firing of a [...]