Vinny Prospal

Ducks looking for more offense

2013-04-16 17:55:00

The Ducks are relying on two good days of practice, three days of rest and a return to fundamentals to halt their drought of goals entering Wednesday night's game at Honda Center against the Columbus Blue Jackets. "We had to go back to basics, putting...

Ducks beat Blue Jackets for second win in a row

2012-01-08 22:15:00

The Philadelphia Inquirer Inside the Flyers column

2013-05-12 08:24:03

The Flyers need help. They missed the playoffs for just the second time in the last 18 years, and their offseason wish list figures to include a productive winger and a top defenseman. In other words, they will try to add players similar to those they...

Blue Jackets: Hope springs from remarkable stretch

2013-04-30 03:54:03

It was the most memorable two-month stretch of play the Blue Jackets have ever put together, a 19-5-5 supernova that captured the city and launched the Jackets from fewest points in the NHL on Feb. 24 to one point shy of a spot in the Stanley Cup...

Blue Jackets 3, Predators 1: Heartbreaking

2013-04-28 09:34:02

For two-plus periods in a packed and pulsating Nationwide Arena, it appeared the closely monitored goings-on in games at Dallas and Denver might not matter to the Blue Jackets. These formerly doormat Jackets, improbably in the thick of a postseason race...

The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio, Michael Arace column

2013-04-24 03:44:02

Hockey makes room for artists and plumbers, and right now, the Blue Jackets are winning with wrenches. Their artist has yet to make a bold stroke. Marian Gaborik, acquired in a blockbuster trade from the New York Rangers three weeks ago, has 336 goals...

Blue Jackets notebook: Prospal is nominated for Masterton trophy

2013-04-23 03:54:03

SAN JOSE, Calif. --Vinny Prospal has brought an unmistakable joie de vivre to each of the eight NHL clubs he has played for during a 16-year, 1,100-game career. But his persistence and determination have had a transformative effect on the Blue Jackets...

Blue Jackets: Anatomy of remarkable turnaround

2013-04-23 03:54:03

SAN JOSE, Calif. --This is not a fluke. This is really happening. The Blue Jackets, on a 17-5-5 tear since late February, have launched themselves into the Stanley Cup playoff picture and caught the hockey world by surprise, not with smoke and mirrors...

Blue Jackets 4, Sharks 3: Johansen to the rescue with late goal

2013-04-22 03:54:04

SAN JOSE, Calif. --They have dominated Detroit, won with ease in Nashville and now swept a season series from the San Jose Sharks. With two games left in the regular season and a spot in the Stanley Cup playoffs beginning to taste almost real, it's only...

San Jose Sharks lose to Columbus Blue Jackets on late goal

2013-04-22 03:54:04

The Sharks came within 97 seconds of clinching a spot in the 2013 Stanley Cup playoffs Sunday. But a turnover led to a late goal that gave the Columbus Blue Jackets a 4-3 victory at HP Pavilion, denying the Sharks the one point they needed to...

Scoreboard - Feb. 8, 2012

2012-02-09 01:05:31

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Shanahan taking job seriously

2011-10-05 20:47:54

The Stanley Cup has been hugged, kissed and photographed thousands of times and dented at least once since June, when the Bruins defeated the Canucks to win their first championship since 1972. Fixing the damage caused when the Cup fell off a table was...

Brandon Saad shoots in front of the Blue Jackets' Vinny Prospal in the first period.

2013-03-01 00:00:00