Dear Columbus Blue Jackets. Please Stop Scaring Johnny Gaudreau With Your Dumbass Cannon
If there’s one thing that all hockey fans can agree on, it’s that the cannon at Nationwide Arena is dumb as shit. You don’t see the Bruins have a live bear in TD Garden that roars after every goal. You don’t see Winnipeg have an actual jet turn it’s engine on at Bell MTS Place every time they light the lamp, which they do quite often. And unless you’re watching the Disney movie, you won’t be hearing a bunch of incessant quacking at a Ducks game. At best, the cannon is incredibly corny and at worst? It’s terrifyingly abrupt and is going to result in someone having a heart attack one of these times. Take Jonathan Hockey for example. Poor kid was scared shitless of the cannon last night that was set off once the Blue Jackets hit the ice last night.
You don’t do that to Johnny! Bunch of goddamn cowardly bullies is all they are over in Columbus. But if anything, the cannons worked against the Blue Jackets last night because it looks to me like that little scare actually ended up giving Johnny a bit of an adrenaline rush. If he wasn’t dialed in and ready to go before getting scared shitless by the cannon, he certainly was after. So he went out and scored the 1st goal of the night about 6 minutes into the game. And then as previously highlighted in the Top 5 Goals In The NHL Last Night blog from this morning, he also had this one later in the game.
Looks to me like Zach Werenski and Seth Jones both thought they heard the cannon there because they both hit the deck right away once Johnny Hockey hit them with that hesi. It’s probably a good thing that the Blue Jackets don’t set off the cannon for away team goals because the Flames put up 9 on Columbus last night. You think Sergei Bobrovsky is trying to get himself traded out of Columbus or do you think Sergei Bobrovsky is trying to get himself traded out of Columbus?