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Columbus man charged with threatening Blue Jackets Friday, March 27, 2009 9:01 AM By Aaron Portzline THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Peter Stenzel, 52, has been arrested and charged with inducing panic after placing at least three threatening phone calls to the Blue Jackets -- specifically goaltender -- Steve Mason during last night's win over Calgary. According to the Columbus police report, Stenzel was wearing a Calgary Flames T-shirt when he was arrested at his residence in Columbus. He is charged with menacing and inducing panic, a misdemeanor. "They got his number from caller ID, and it was given to special duty...

Homeland Insanity The Blue Jackets travel party landed safely at 4:06 a.m. Monday. Odd timing, as that's roughly the time when the computer system used by U.S. Customs agents at Port Columbus crashed. What followed in the next hour and 20 minutes was a maddening sequence of government red tape, bureaucratic blather and remarkable incompetency. The Blue Jackets travel party numbers roughly 50, when you consider the players, coaching staff, training staff, equipment guys, traveling secretaries and media. As the group made it off the plane and wound its way toward an empty Customs area, the long trip home came...

Michael Arace commentary: Blue Jackets face tough decision on Malarchuk Monday, October 13, 2008 3:07 AM By Michael Arace THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Last week, Clint Malarchuk shot himself in the chin with a .22-caliber rifle. The incident occurred at Malarchuk's ranch in Gardnerville, Nev. The Douglas County sheriff investigated and concluded the shooting was "accidental under suspicious circumstances." Which is to say this looked exactly like a suicide attempt, but there is no way to prove it. Malarchuk, after resisting, ultimately accepted treatment and was hospitalized. He has since been discharged. His coaching career is in jeopardy and he has...

Blue Jackets assistant coach's gunshot wound accidental, wife says Thursday, October 9, 2008 9:15 PM By TOM REED THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Blue Jackets goaltending coach Clint Malarchuk is recovering from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chin that he suffered Tuesday afternoon at his ranch in Gardnerville, Nev. His wife, Joan, told deputy sheriffs the shooting was accidental. The former NHL goaltender, perhaps best known for having his jugular vein severed in a 1989 game in Buffalo, was found by police bleeding profusely from the mouth and chin after he shot himself with a .22-caliber rifle, according to a Douglas...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- A 4-year-old girl was hit in the head by a puck at an Ohio State hockey game on Saturday night and taken to a hospital for stitches, officials said. The girl was treated at Children's Hospital and released, a nursing supervisor said Sunday. She did not have details of the girl's injury. Ohio State lost to Ferris State 1-0 in overtime in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association playoff game at Value City Arena. Three years ago, 13-year-old Brittanie Cecil died after being hit in the head by a puck while watching a Columbus Blue Jackets game at...

Beer sales facing the penalty box at Nationwide Monday, June 17, 2002 Steve Stephens Dispatch Metro Columnist While hockey fans in the major-league town of Detroit celebrate a Stanley Cup, fans in Columbus should ponder the potential fallout of minor-league law enforcement. Cops and liquor agents caught vendors at Nationwide Arena selling beer to an underage, undercover informant at a Blue Jackets game Feb. 9, said Julie Ehrhart, a spokeswoman for the Ohio Investigative Unit of the Department of Public Safety. Unfortunately for beer drinkers and hockey fans, the arena (partially owned by The Dispatch Printing Company) had been stung...