“If (my next stop) is Columbus, I can tell you this: That hockey club is better than the one we took over in St. Louis. That club was way, way down the ladder. But this Blue Jackets team is not that far off. There are some pieces there to work with, absolutely. They’ve got some real players there.”

-John Davidson,who recently parted ways with the St. Louis Blues. More on Davidson from Aaron Portzline of the Columbus Dispatch.