Head Coach Rick Bowness, Boone Jenner, Cole Sillinger and Jet Greaves meet with the media following tonight’s game.
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This team is pathetic!!
We need bones more than ever
God do I hope he comes back… players don’t care. Jet could only do so much down the stretch. Lost all of our grit once Olivier was done for the season. Honestly trade Z and get a haul back, sure he has elite skill but there is no grit to his game and that’s what matters most this time of year
25 years – the FANS hate losing! We do! I hope you come back bc something has to give! This collapse was epic
nothing else Bones. have a good summer Sir.
I am so glad to hear Bones say that!!! Too many players accept losing too easily and talk about taking positives out of it. I long to see people calling others out, getting in others faces, throwing garbage cans. As much as I hated Tom Brady, he was getting in teammates faces. Hell he even got in coaches faces. He hated losing. Too many of the Blue Jackets just say 'Well we played the right way but came up a little short. We need to do better next time." I hope changes are made and we see more passion next year otherwise even if they get into the playoffs, they won't go far.
The reporters love this…they just keep feeding his rage lol
Boone has to go. Idgaf if he scored a goal tonight, he’s Captain and it’s clear nobody in that locker room cares. Blow it up and clean house. Bring back Bones build an actual winning culture for once in 3 fucking decades
This is the attitude I've been looking for. Light fires, hurt some feelings, it's all for the betterment of this team. Something has to change.
I hadn't been a fan of bones coming back due to the last 3 weeks' swan dive, but he's identified the poor locker room culture. Now, I hope he comes back and fixes it.
Don pls bring Bones back, any player who is fine with losing should be cut/traded. Maybe laine was right. Honestly Coyle is the only guy worth bringing back. Hopefully we saw the last of 17, 38, 44 and 90 in cbj uniforms
I’m ready to run through a brick wall for Bones. I want a contract extension for him like yesterday. Tired of the last 25 years of lackadaisical crap, and this is the guy I can see being us out of the depths of hell that has been Blue Jackets hockey.
Fuckin team is gonna give this guy a jammer
Blue Jackets 🤜🏻🤛🏻 Red Wings
oh them bones is rattled, i feel like he's been wanting to say this since the slide became a sled.
Michael therrein vibes
Awesome post game coach…Any player that doesn't want to play for Rick next year, don't let the door hit you in the a$$..Hell, who knows if Rick wants to come back..But i sure want him back.. I also hope we can get some top free agents to come & help take the next step… just making the playoffs isn't good enough, competing for the cup is was this team should be aiming for.. Go Jackets Go…see you on opening night!
Sign Bones. Trade Boone.
All is definitely not well in Columbus. Please bring Bowness back. 25+ years of mediocre to sub par play, 6 playoff appearances with one series win that's looking more and more of an abnormality. The culture needs to change. We fans are beyond exhausted of being the punching bag and perennial basement dwellers of NHL hockey. Things need to change for the better, please!!!
First month of the season should be making every player learn to hit. Too many softies that hardly lay a body on people. When Olivier went down too many teams KNEW no one was coming to put a body on them. Easy to take your time passing in that scenario.
One of the most disappointing things this team has done is the past 6 years is let our playoff chance slip away like nothing. Repcet for rick because he seems to be the only one thats pissed off by this. He deserves more than what he is getting from this team. I hope rick knows how much the fans genuinely love him.
I heard the Blue Jackets are starting a bakery now with all those turnovers
Told ya…. Toughness and grit. I know exactly who to trade.
Officially rooting for Columbus and Bones next year
You see it night after night….even in the wins. Toughness and grit. Starting with the defense… 0 hits during a hockey game is TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE
If he’s brought back or not will be a tell tale sign of the competence of Don/Priest/McConnell. Waiting game now.
I wish I could say it was a good and hard fought season, but boy the highs were high, and the lows were low. Unfortunate end to the season and kind of sums up not only this year but this fanchise as a whole. Even when there is hope, it always gets thrown out the window. I feel bad for a few guys on this team, and don’t feel anything for most of them. They probably know eho they are, and if they don’t then they are the problem. Most of this team didn’t show up when it mattered most and us fans have to pay the price for it, literally. Hopefully season 26 is different, but im expecting disappointment, because if you expect disappointment you can never be disappointed.
U can tell this coach really cares hope he's back
Please come back
The comments by Bowness come at during at least the first 3 minutes of the postgame media availability. Hatred of losing should go for ANY player on ANY sports team but particularly on pro-sports ones.
@ownership bring him back and make the investment in changing the culture, you cheap bastards
I feel bad for werenski… we don't deserve him..
Wow this will go viral tomorrow
Habs fan here, you have to bring back Bowness. He will straighten these soft guys out. He will toughen them up. CBJ is too talented to be out of the playoffs year after year like this. It's unacceptable.
Bones finally said what needed to be said. Respect to Bones for calling it like it is.
Bring him back.
We don’t deserve him
This man cares
Checking in from the UK for the final whistle. My observation from across the pond is that while the organisation deserves massive credit for the turnaround since January, we have reached a strategic ceiling. Dragging this team from the basement to meaningful hockey in April was a major achievement, and the defensive foundation is now stable.
However, the numbers from this final stretch tell a troubling story. In our last two games alone, we outshot elite opponents like Boston and Washington 63–46, yet we were outscored 5–3. Over the final 10 games, we averaged over 30 shots per game but only managed roughly 2 goals per night, resulting in a 3–6–1 slide when it mattered most.
This shot-on-goal differential shows the team is working hard, but the 'simple' playbook acts like a speed limiter. You cannot win a Cup if your best players are coached to play with hesitation instead of their natural instincts. High shot volume is a hollow metric if the system stifles the creative flare and joy that Johnny Gaudreau brought to this city.
The repair is done. It is time to move past crisis management. Management now needs to take the restrictions off and implement a strategy that allows this elite roster to actually win. The 5th Line wants a contender, not just respectable mediocrity.
Please fire him… From a Leafs fan, this is the exact type of coach the team needs to change the damn soft culture and show the higher ups how to treat them like men instead of boys and make them take responsibility instead of always looking for a scapegoat to bail them out. Shoot I might make him the damn team president over what they got right now
Canucks need this guy
Get rid of the grass fairy’s playing soccer before the game and get real hockey players. Then the culture will change.
Bones turning into John wick. Please come back.
#bringbackbones
Amen Rick, a bunch of softies on that team. Change it all please
Boone has to go
Bones is upset but Boone felt like he was lying. Trade Boone.
Gotta be tough for a guy who cares that much. Jackets have the blend of youth and experience, all quality players, to win the Cup, especially this year when there really is no dominant team. I don’t see any other team that can control the game like the Jackets can. They play well…and then just stop. One of the thing “the game is all about” is the last 5 minutes,. Jackets are rarely there for that. They should win those 2-1 and 3-2 games, but they give them away.
I love you Jet !!!