National Hockey League season
The 2001–02 Columbus Blue Jackets season was the Blue Jackets' second season in the National Hockey League (NHL), as the team was coming off a 28–39–9–6 record in their expansion season, earning 71 points and missing the 2001 Stanley Cup playoffs . The Blue Jackets did not qualify for the 2002 playoffs.
Regular season
Columbus would get off to a poor start, winning only one out of 13 games to open the season and falling to last place in the Western Conference . While the Blue Jackets would play better as the season progressed, they were far off from playoff qualification and would eventually trade team captain Lyle Odelein to the Chicago Blackhawks in exchange for defenseman Jaroslav Spacek at the trade deadline . Columbus would finish the season with a 22–47–8–5 record, earning 57 points, which was 14 fewer points than in their previous season, and 37 points behind the Vancouver Canucks for the eighth final playoff spot in the West. Columbus would score an NHL-low 164 goals, and their 255 goals against was the highest total in the Western Conference, third-highest in the NHL. The 57 points the Jackets earned was the second fewest in the League, only ahead of the Atlanta Thrashers , who finished with 54.
Ray Whitney would lead Columbus offensively, scoring a team-high 21 goals and 40 assists for 61 points, which broke the team record for points in a season. Mike Sillinger would be the only other Blue Jacket to score 20 goals, scoring 20 and adding 23 assists for 43 points. Deron Quint led the Jackets defense, earning 25 points, while Rostislav Klesla scored eight goals and earned 16 points in his first full season in the League. Jody Shelley had a team-high and club-record 206 penalty minutes in only 52 games.
In goal, Ron Tugnutt and Marc Denis would split time, with Tugnutt winning a team-high 12 games and posting a team-best 2.85 goals against average (GAA).
Tragedy struck at Nationwide Arena during a game on March 16, 2002, against the Calgary Flames , when a shot by Jackets forward Espen Knutsen was deflected off the stick of Flames defenceman Derek Morris and sailed into the stands, hitting 13-year-old Brittanie Cecil in the head. Cecil would pass away on March 18 due to the injury.
The Blue Jackets would finish the season 30th in the League in scoring, with 164 goals for, and would be shut out an NHL-high 11 times.
Season standings
Note: CR = Conference rank; GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; OTL = Overtime loss; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; Pts = Points Bolded teams qualified for the playoffs.
Divisions: CEN – Central, PAC – Pacific, NW – Northwest
bold – Qualified for playoffs; p – Won Presidents' Trophy ; y – Won division
Schedule and results
2001–02 regular season
October: 1–7–4–0 (home: 0–4–2–0; road: 1–3–2–0)
November: 6–6–1–1 (home: 4–3–1–1; road: 2–3–0–0)
December: 3–9–1–0 (home: 2–2–1–0; road: 1–7–0–0)
January: 4–9–1–0 (home: 4–3–0–0; road: 0–6–1–0)
February: 1–3–1–2 (home: 0–3–1–2; road: 1–0–0–0)
March: 5–8–0–2 (home: 2–2–0–1; road: 3–6–0–1)
April: 2–5–0–0 (home: 2–1–0–0; road: 0–4–0–0)
Legend :
Win (2 points)
Loss (0 points)
Tie (1 point)
Overtime loss (1 point)
Player statistics
Scoring
Position abbreviations: C = Center ; D = Defense ; G = Goaltender ; LW = Left wing ; RW = Right wing
† = Joined team via a transaction (e.g., trade, waivers, signing) during the season. Stats reflect time with the Blue Jackets only.
‡ = Left team via a transaction (e.g., trade, waivers, release) during the season. Stats reflect time with the Blue Jackets only.
Goaltending
No.
Player
Regular season
GP
W
L
T
SA
GA
GAA
SV%
SO
TOI
31
Ron Tugnutt
44
12
27
3
1195
119
2.85
.900
2
2502
30
Marc Denis
42
9
24
5
1197
121
3.11
.899
1
2335
1
Jean-Francois Labbe
3
1
1
0
68
6
3.08
.912
0
117
Awards and records
Awards
Milestones
Transactions
The Blue Jackets were involved in the following transactions from June 10, 2001, the day after the deciding game of the 2001 Stanley Cup Finals , through June 13, 2002, the day of the deciding game of the 2002 Stanley Cup Finals .
Trades
Date
Details
Ref
June 24, 2001 (2001-06-24)
To Columbus Blue Jackets
To Calgary Flames
August 29, 2001 (2001-08-29)
To Columbus Blue Jackets
To Dallas Stars
September 28, 2001 (2001-09-28)
To Columbus Blue Jackets
To Dallas Stars
March 15, 2002 (2002-03-15)
To Columbus Blue Jackets
To Pittsburgh Penguins
March 19, 2002 (2002-03-19)
To Columbus Blue Jackets
To Chicago Blackhawks
To Columbus Blue Jackets
To Calgary Flames
Players acquired
Players lost
Date
Player
New team
Via
Ref
N/A
Michael Gaul
HC Fribourg-Gotteron (NLA )
Free agency (VI)
June 21, 2001 (2001-06-21)
Reggie Savage
EHC Biel-Bienne (NLB )
Free agency (VI)
July 1, 2001 (2001-07-01)
Petteri Nummelin
HC Lugano (NLA)
Free agency (II)
July 7, 2001 (2001-07-07)
Mike Maneluk
HC Lugano (NLA)
Free agency (UFA)
August 15, 2001 (2001-08-15)
Sean Selmser
Hamilton Bulldogs (AHL )
Free agency (UFA)
August 16, 2001 (2001-08-16)
Alexander Selivanov
Frankfurt Lions (DEL )
Free agency (UFA)
September 26, 2001 (2001-09-26)
Scott Hollis
Flint Generals (UHL )
Free agency (UFA)
October 8, 2001 (2001-10-08)
Jeff Williams
Brynas IF (SHL )
Free agency (VI)
October 21, 2001 (2001-10-21)
Bruce Gardiner
New Jersey Devils
Free agency (UFA)
February 1, 2002 (2002-02-01)
Jeff Ware
Retirement
April 17, 2002 (2002-04-17)
Jamie Heward
Geneve-Servette HC (NLA)
Free agency
Signings
Date
Player
Term
Contract type
Ref
June 20, 2001 (2001-06-20)
Andrej Nedorost
Entry-level
Martin Paroulek
Entry-level
July 9, 2001 (2001-07-09)
Blake Sloan
multi-year
Re-signing
July 2001 (2001-07)
Kevin Dineen
1-year
Re-signing
July 13, 2001 (2001-07-13)
Tyler Wright
multi-year
Re-signing
July 31, 2001 (2001-07-31)
Matt Davidson
1-year
Re-signing
Greg Gardner
1-year
Re-signing
Andriy Sryubko
1-year
Re-signing
Mattias Timander
1-year
Re-signing
August 3, 2001 (2001-08-03)
Jamie Pushor
1-year
Re-signing
August 23, 2001 (2001-08-23)
Geoff Sanderson
1-year
Re-signing
September 24, 2001 (2001-09-24)
Deron Quint
Re-signing
October 17, 2001 (2001-10-17)
Shane Bendera
multi-year
Entry-level
April 22, 2002 (2002-04-22)
Jody Shelley
multi-year
Extension
April 23, 2002 (2002-04-23)
Pascal Leclaire
multi-year
Entry-level
May 28, 2002 (2002-05-28)
Scott Heffernan
multi-year
Entry-level
Sean Pronger
multi-year
Extension
David Vyborny
1-year
Extension
June 6, 2002 (2002-06-06)
Ben Knopp
multi-year
Entry-level
Draft picks
Columubus' draft picks at the 2001 NHL entry draft .
Notes
Knutsen was an injury replacement for Jere Lehtinen of the Dallas Stars .
Klesla did not play and was replaced by Paul Mara of the Phoenix Coyotes .
In parentheses is the player's free agency group on July 1 if applicable.
Columbus retained Nummelin’s NHL rights until trading them to the Atlanta Thrashers on December 2, 2002.
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