Columbus Blue Jackets Milestones

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How the Columbus Blue Jackets history timeline works

Every card is a moment from Blue Jackets history with a short explanation under its title, and you're arranging them by the year they happened. One card is already placed with its year in view. As each new card comes up, decide which gap it belongs in. Get it right and its year appears; get it wrong and it moves to its real place anyway, taking one of your three lives with it.

Columbus is one of the league's younger clubs, and its history is mostly about building: high picks, coaching hires, trades and the slow climb to the playoffs. Firsts matter a lot here, since many cards mark the first time something happened, and they cluster in a tight window. Trades in and out can blur together too, so check whether each description has a player arriving or leaving.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

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Here are 22 of the 22 cards you might be dealt. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

Awarded an NHL expansion team The league picked Ohio's capital to join alongside Minnesota
Opened Nationwide Arena and dropped the puck Played the franchise's first game and made Rostislav Klesla their first pick
Drafted Rick Nash first overall Grabbed the star winger with the top pick
Nash shared the Rocket Richard The young sniper tied for the league goal lead with 41
Acquired Sergei Fedorov Traded for the veteran Hall of Fame center
Hired Ken Hitchcock Brought in a Cup-winning coach to steady the club
Rick Nash named captain The face of the franchise got the 'C'
First playoff berth; Mason won the Calder Reached the postseason as their rookie goalie took top-freshman honors
Acquired Jeff Carter A blockbuster brought the star center to Ohio
Traded Rick Nash to the Rangers Dealt the longtime captain in a franchise-altering move
Bobrovsky won the Vezina Their Russian goalie was named the league's best
First playoff-game wins Won postseason games for the first time, pushing Pittsburgh
Hosted the All-Star Game; hired Tortorella Columbus threw its showcase weekend and changed coaches
Drafted Pierre-Luc Dubois Took the center third overall
Franchise-best 108-point season Ripped off a franchise-record 16-game win streak
Reached the playoffs in back-to-back years Made the postseason in consecutive springs for the first time
Swept the Presidents' Trophy Lightning Stunned the record-setting favorites for a first series win
Won a bubble qualifying round Beat Toronto in the pandemic restart
Traded for Patrik Laine Sent Dubois to Winnipeg for the Finnish sniper
Signed Johnny Gaudreau Landed the star free-agent winger on a long deal
Drafted Adam Fantilli Took the highly touted center third overall
Mourned Johnny Gaudreau The beloved winger and his brother were killed that summer