from Shawn Mitchell of he Columbus Dispatch.

“It was no surprise,” defenseman Fedor Tyutin said, dripping sweat at his stall after practice. “It’s the way it works and the way it should be, really.

“If a guy doesn’t want to give 100 percent during a game, then it’s going to happen in practice. This is not a country club where you can just work whenever you want. It’s normal, and I think it’s good for our team at this point. Hopefully, we learned a big lesson.”...

The Blue Jackets had a lengthy team meeting yesterday morning. Among the topics of discussion was taking pride in doing gritty, inglorious things that were once second nature. Then they hit the ice, and Richards began barking. At one point, he had five-man units skating end-to-end during 50-second shifts.

“I don’t believe in using practice as punishment,” Richards said, “but there are days when I think you have to.”

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