* 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.

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.

ABU sports teams play under the name Blue Tide.

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 and black balls play against red and yellow.

The Blue Men play a short snippet of the show's theme song, and one dons Doraemon's beanie.

Paul Chambers ( who worked with Miles Davis on the famous Kind of Blue album ) achieved renown for being one of the first jazz bassists to play bebop solos with the bow.

A Labour Day tradition in Atlantic Canada is the Wharf Rat Rally in Digby, Nova Scotia, while the rest of Canada watches the Labour Day Classic, a Canadian Football League event where rivals like Calgary Stampeders and Edmonton Eskimos, Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Toronto Argonauts ( except in 2011, due to a scheduling conflict ), and Saskatchewan Roughriders and Winnipeg Blue Bombers play on Labour Day weekend.

Peake's play The Cave, which dates from the mid-1950s, was given a first public reading at the Blue Elephant Theatre in Camberwell ( London ) in 2009, and had its world premiere in the same theatre, directed by Aaron Paterson, on 19 October 2010.

They had earlier collaborated on the play Secrets from the BBC series Black and Blue in 1973.

A widely related story, attributed to Richard ( Prophet ) Jennings was that Davis, while in Detroit playing at the Blue Bird club as a guest soloist in Billy Mitchell's house band along with Tommy Flanagan, Elvin Jones, Betty Carter, Yusef Lateef, Barry Harris, Thad Jones, Curtis Fuller and Donald Byrd stumbled into Baker's Keyboard Lounge out of the rain, soaking wet and carrying his trumpet in a paper bag under his coat, walked to the bandstand and interrupted Max Roach and Clifford Brown in the midst of performing Sweet Georgia Brown by beginning to play My Funny Valentine, and then, after finishing the song, stumbled back into the rainy night.

To do this, the quarterback yells a special code, like " Blue 42 ," or " Texas 29 ," which tells the offense to switch to a specific play or formation.

* Blue Max-( GDW, 1983 ) is a multi-player game of World War I aerial combat over the Western Front during 1917 and 1918 with an extremely easy to play mechanism but allow the development of complex strategies.

** The Toronto Blue Jays play their first game of baseball against the Chicago White Sox.

They were also stablemates at Blue Horizon, and Fleetwood Mac had asked Christine to play piano as a session musician for Peter Green's songs on the band's second album, Mr. Wonderful.

Casta became an established actress, appearing in the films Gainsbourg ( A Heroic Life ), Face and Blue Bicycle, as well as the play Ondine at the theatre Antoine.

The League also condemned the 1953 comedy The Moon Is Blue, based on a Broadway play which did not inspire mass protests, for its use of the words " virgin " and " pregnant ", and the film was notably released without the Production Code Seal of Approval.

Mendes was directing Cruise's then-wife Nicole Kidman in the play The Blue Room during pre-production on American Beauty, and had already storyboarded the whole film.

After Deep Thought's 1989 match against Kasparov, IBM held a contest to rename the chess machine and it became " Deep Blue ", a play on IBM's nickname, " Big Blue ".

Mid Somerset Hockey Club and Wells City Acorns Hockey Club both play on the Astroturf pitches at the Blue School, where several other sports clubs are based.

In 1941, NBC Blue aired a sixty minute adaptation of the play as part of their Great Plays series, written by Ranald MacDougall and directed by Charles Warburton, starring Herbert Rudley and Grace Coppin.

Some of these teams share stadiums with their club's High-A affiliate in the Florida State League, which can lead to confusion, as FSL teams do use the city name ( e. g. the Dunedin Blue Jays, three levels up from the GCL Blue Jays, who also play in Dunedin ).