* 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.

Advance publicity on the Los Angeles Blue Book does not mention names dropped as did the notices for the New York Social Register which made news last week.

The U. S. military began targeting food crops in October 1962, primarily using Agent Blue ; the American public was not made aware of the crop destruction programs until 1965 ( and it was then believed that crop spraying had begun that spring ).

In 1998, CDR Patrick Driscoll made the first " Blue Jet " landing on a " haze gray and underway " aircraft carrier, USS Harry S. Truman ( CVN-75 ).

Blue Jam was later made for television and broadcast on Channel 4 as Jam.

According to a survey by The Washington Post, The Thin Blue Line made dozens of critics ' top ten lists for 1988, more than any other film that year.

To this day, The Thin Blue Line is one of the most critically acclaimed documentaries ever made.

" Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski's The Three Colors Trilogy were each made for these festivals, with Blue for Venice, White for Berlin, and Red for Cannes.

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.

* Led by Coach Digger Phelps, the Irish made a trip to the 1978 Final Four where they lost to the Duke Blue Devils.

This made it unpopular as a national symbol and the Kerry Blue Terrier was adopted by Republicans such as Michael Collins.

Her more starkly personal 1971 recording Blue has been called one of the best albums ever made.

She has made guest appearances on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, NYPD Blue, Third Watch, Cosby, Better off Ted and La Femme Nikita.

A trade was also made with the Toronto Blue Jays where Joe Carter and Roberto Alomar were traded for Fred McGriff and Tony Fernandez.

The record performance was made at LLNL on Blue Gene / L, the world's fastest supercomputer with 131, 072 processors.

The Hyundai Blue Will plug-in hybrid has made its U. S. debut at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit 2010.

In 1981, Marceau made her singing debut with French singer François Valéry on record " Dream in Blue ", written by Delanoë.

During World War I the RAF painted the outer roundels with a color which was made on Ultramarine Blue.

It was replaced in the 1960s by a new color made on Phthalocyanine Blue, BS110 ( 381C ) Roundel Blue.

Middle Blue Green made it until 1958 but got dropped because they had already come out with their own Blue Green color in 1930 and it was this color that survived.

Blue frit is calcium copper silicate and was made from glass colored with a copper ore, such as malachite.

* The Uzbek group Yalla made a song in Russian called " The Blue Domes of Samarkand ".

Dorset Blue Vinney ( frequently spelled " vinny ") is a traditional blue cheese made near Sturminster Newton in Dorset, England, from skimmed cows ' milk.

Previously, the dimensions of the French Blue had been known only from two drawings made in 1749 and 1789 ; although the model slightly differs from the drawings in some details, these details are identical to features of the Hope Diamond, allowing CAD technology to digitally reconstruct the French Blue around the recut stone.