* Columbus Blue Jackets, National Hockey League team

The Red Wings handily swept the Columbus Blue Jackets, then beat the 8th-seeded Anaheim Ducks in a hard fought seven-game series.

The Nashville Predators ( which began play in the 1998 – 99 season ), as well as the Columbus Blue Jackets and Minnesota Wild ( which both began play in the 2000 – 01 season ), were the other franchises granted in this round of expansion.

A day later, at the trade deadline, they re-acquired popular defenseman Adam Foote from the Columbus Blue Jackets as well as Ruslan Salei from the Florida Panthers.

During the offseason, the Lightning traded Fredrik Modin and Fredrik Norrena, to the Columbus Blue Jackets for goaltender Marc Denis, to replace John Grahame, who had served as the Lightning's goaltender throughout most of the 2005 – 06 season, as he left the team, and signed with the Carolina Hurricanes.

MacLean is the former president and general manager of the Columbus Blue Jackets and former head coach for both the Blue Jackets and the Florida Panthers.

On April 8, with a shootout loss to the Columbus Blue Jackets, the Blackhawks clinched their first 100-point season in 17 years.

The Columbus Blue Jackets are a professional ice hockey team based in Columbus, Ohio, United States.

Preceded in Ohio's capital by the Columbus Chill of the ECHL and the state of Ohio in general by the Cleveland Barons, the Blue Jackets were founded as an expansion team in 2000.

The Blue Jackets ' name and logos were inspired by Ohio's Civil War history.

The Blue Jackets play their home games at Nationwide Arena in downtown Columbus, which opened in 2000.

Nationwide Arena, home of the Columbus Blue Jackets.

On June 23, 2000, the NHL's two newest teams, the Blue Jackets and the Minnesota Wild, took part in the 2000 NHL Expansion Draft in Calgary, Alberta.

Both the Blue Jackets and Wild had to use their first 24 selections on three goaltenders, eight defensemen, and thirteen forwards.

With the first-overall choice, the Blue Jackets selected goaltender Rick Tabaracci from the Colorado Avalanche.

The Blue Jackets and Wild were granted concessions by some franchises who could not protect their full rosters.

The San Jose Sharks traded Jan Caloun, a ninth-round pick in the 2000 NHL Entry Draft, and a 2001 conditional pick to Columbus ; in return, the Blue Jackets agreed not to select the Sharks ' unprotected goaltender Evgeni Nabokov.

The Blue Jackets played their first regular-season game on October 7, 2000, a 5 – 3 loss to the Chicago Blackhawks.

The Blue Jackets finished next-to-last in the NHL in the following season, with only 57 points.

Tragedy struck the Blue Jackets organization in March 2002 when 13-year-old Brittanie Cecil was killed after a deflected puck shot by Espen Knutsen struck her in the head while she was in the stands at Nationwide Arena.

During the offseason, the Blue Jackets traded a second-round pick ( 32nd overall ) and Tugnutt to the Dallas Stars.

The 2003 – 04 season was another losing season for the Blue Jackets despite key additions in the offseason.

There have been a number of radio adaptations of the Poirot stories, most recently twenty seven of them on BBC Radio 4 ( and regularly repeated on BBC 7 ), starring John Moffatt ( Maurice Denham and Peter Sallis have also played Poirot on BBC Radio 4, Mr. Denham in The Mystery of the Blue Train and Mr. Sallis in Hercule Poirot's Christmas ).

Today Ahmed I is remembered mainly for the construction of the Sultan Ahmed Mosque ( also known as the Blue Mosque ), one of the masterpieces of Islamic architecture.

ACM also sponsors other computer science related events such as the worldwide ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest ( ICPC ), and has sponsored some other events such as the chess match between Garry Kasparov and the IBM Deep Blue computer.

Blue Remembered Hills, a television play by Dennis Potter, takes its title from " Into My Heart an Air That Kills " from A Shropshire Lad, the cycle also providing the name for the James Bond film Die Another Day: " But since the man that runs away / Lives to die another day ".

Blue laws may also prohibit retail activity on days other than Sunday.

The law also directed local communities to hold referendums to determine the status and extent of Blue Laws in their respective jurisdictions.

The Blue Crane ( Anthropoides paradiseus ), also known as the Stanley Crane and the Paradise Crane, is the national bird of South Africa.

The Blue Angels also visit more than 50, 000 people a show season ( March through November ) in schools and hospitals.

" The Blue Angels ' first public demonstration also netted the team its first trophy, which sits on display at the team's current home at NAS Pensacola.

The term Columbia Basin is used to refer not only to the entire drainage basin but also to subsets of the river's full watershed, such as the relatively flat and unforested area in eastern Washington bounded by the Cascades, the Rocky Mountains, and the Blue Mountains.

Similarly, hospital emergency codes often incorporate colors ( such as the widely used " Code Blue " indicating a cardiac arrest ), although they may also include numbers, and may not conform to a uniform standard.

There is one bright planetary nebula in Centaurus, NGC 3918, also known as the Blue Planetary.

The team's helmets are also a unique silver with a tint of blue known as " Metallic Silver Blue " ( PMS 8240 C ) and have a blue / white / blue vertical stripe placed upon the center of the crown.

Delft is primarily known for its typically Dutch town centre ( with canals ); also for the painter Vermeer, Delft Blue pottery ( Delftware ), the Delft University of Technology, and its association with the Dutch royal family, the House of Orange-Nassau.

An early bluegrass bassist to rise to prominence was Howard Watts ( also known as Cedric Rainwater ), who played with Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys beginning in 1944.

The interactive-teaching language Blue, forerunner of BlueJ, is also Eiffel-based.

Burnett was mentioned in possible trades with the Chicago White Sox, Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, Toronto Blue Jays, and Texas Rangers, with many rumors also including Lowell or Encarnacion.

Blue light is also better for visualization since it is safer than UV ( eye-protection is not such a critical requirement ) and passes through transparent plastic and glass.

He has also designed many card games such as Lost Cities, Schotten-Totten, and Blue Moon, and the cooperative board game The Lord of the Rings.

Lee also plays bass on Canadian rock band I Mother Earth's track " Good For Sule ", which is featured on the group's album " Blue Green Orange ", released in 1999.

It is also an inter-city stop on the Blue Mountains Line.

Haggis-maker MacSween conducted a taste-test which indicated that whisky is a proper accompaniment, and adds that lighter-bodied, tannic red wines, such as those made from the Barbera grape, are also suitable, as are strong, powerfully flavoured Belgian beers, such as Duvel and Chimay Blue.

* 1984 – Operation Blue Star, a military offensive, is launched by the Indian government at Harmandir Sahib, also known as the Golden Temple, the holiest shrine for the Sikhs, in Amritsar.

He also appeared as Dick Burlingame and Charles Lawrence in the 1960 episodes " The Blue Goose " and " Dark Fear " of CBS's anthology series The DuPont Show with June Allyson.

Some of the prominent landmarks on the engineering side include the Blue Earth Workshop — which, in addition to being among the foremost centres of learning techniques in workshop technology, also has the dubious distinction of having been used by students affected by the naxalite violence to manufacture blow guns, the “ gachchtola ”, the “ jheel paar ”, ashirwad canteen ( now converted into the SURUCHI canteen ), the windmill and the “ green zone ”.