Welcome to a weekend edition of NHL Predictions! It is the first weekend of 2025. If you are a student or a teacher, you are likely in the final days of your winter break, although the weather may change that in quite a few states.

The players selected to the Blue Jackets’ First Quarter-Century Team are forwards Rick Nash, Cam Atkinson and Artemi Panarin; defensemen Zach Werenski and Seth Jones; and goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky.

The National Hockey League is celebrating the first 25 years of the century by naming each franchise’s best team in that timespan and the Blue Jackets’ squad was named Thursday. Columbus’ quarter-century teams consist of the best players who suited up for the CBJ since 2000.

Former Blue Jackets forward says he needed to leave after 'things happened,' and says he tired of 'losing and just giving up when it's December.'

We continue today by revealing the First and Second Quarter-Century Teams for the Columbus Blue Jackets, who began play in the 2000-2001 season. Players are listed in alphabetical order:

Texier returns to place he was drafted playing with more confidence; Blues attempting for elusive three-game winning streak, need to put together run; Hofer to get start in goal

Tarasenko, Steen, Tkachuk, Pietrangelo, Pronger, Binnington all make first-team cut; Backes, O'Reilly, Perron, MacInnis, Parayko, Elliott make up second team