Columbus Blue Jackets
In 201, the Blue Jackets did something nobody expected the Blue Jackets to ever do. They swept the Tampa Bay Lightning in the first round, the same Lightning team that had just tied the NHL record for wins in a regular season. These Columbus Blue Jackets rivalry shirts are built on that exact week of hockey, for the fanbase that fires the cannon and means it.
The Penguins are the closet Metro rival and get the lead spot for hating and the games are always extra, in text or box layouts, fully explicit or kept censored, in Blue Jackets union blue, red, and silver. Anti-Capitals and anti-Rangers designs handle the rest of the Metro Division's traditional powers, with anti-Devils, anti-Flyers, and anti-Hurricanes tees rounding out the division for fans who want the whole list covered.
Columbus Blue Jackets fan gear for the 5th Line. Wear it to Nationwide Arena downtown for games that end with the cannon firing, to bars in the Short North and the Arena District, to watch parties anywhere across central Ohio.
The 2019 Lightning sweep aka the biggest first-round upset in NHL history. The Cannon firing after every CBJ goal. Rick Nash as the franchise's first true face. Sergei Bobrovsky stealing two Vezinas. The Blue Jackets name itself, pulled from Ohio sending more Union soldiers per capita than any other state in the Civil War. Columbus shows up loud and won't apologize. Go Jackets.
