In Memoriam: 2008-2009 Columbus Blue Jackets (3rd of 15)

The Blue Jackets, one of the NHL's most recent expansion teams, made the post-season for the first time, only to be paired against the defending Stanley Cup champions.

Perhaps predictably, the series wasn't pretty for Columbus fans, as their team managed only a pair of goals by R. J. Umbarger total offense through the first three games of the series. Facing elimination, the Jackets managed to put five past an apparently ailing Chris Osgood, but couldn't hold Detroit under four in any of the four games of the series, as Steve Mason (no relationship to the St. Louis netminder Chris Mason) yielded six in the finale to close out the Jackets' trip to the playoffs.

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How can a team which played as well during the regular season as the San Jose Sharks play so poorly in the post-season? To pre-emptively quote,tattermuffin, "Stupid Sharks!"