from Aaron Portzline of the Columbus Dispatch.

“Our improvement is going to come from within,” general manager Jarmo Kekalainen said. “It has to come from within.

“We have several guys, veteran guys, who have a lot to prove after the season they had last year, and I think they’re going to be better. We have a group of young guys who are going to push them to be better.”...

But more than anything, the Blue Jackets are banking on their big-ticket players — captain Nick Foligno and goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky, in particular — to return to form.

Bobrovsky might hold within himself the greatest chance for the Blue Jackets to be better.

He was dreadful at the start of the season — an .835 save percentage during the 0-8 start to the season — and was out three different times because of groin injuries. He played just 37 games in 2015-16.

Foligno seemed to carry a burden with the captain’s ‘C’, and his numbers plummeted, from 31 goals in 2014-15 to 12 last season, and from 73 points to 37.

“I, 100 percent, appreciate (management) having trust in us,” Foligno said. “They know we can get the job done.

more