{"id":250114,"date":"2025-10-17T16:38:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T16:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/250114\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T16:38:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T16:38:17","slug":"columbus-blue-jackets-celebrate-25-years-with-inaugural-coach-and-players-reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/250114\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbus Blue Jackets celebrate 25 years with inaugural coach and players reunion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/bluejackets\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/bluejackets\/\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Columbus Blue Jackets<\/a> announcing that the organization\u2019s first head coach Dave King and four former players from the inaugural 2000-01 season will return to Columbus for the first of five 25th Anniversary Celebration games on Saturday, October 18. Prior to the team\u2019s home game vs. the Tampa Bay Lightning at Nationwide Arena, the club will recognize King, along with defenseman Rostislav Klesla, forward Kevin Dineen, goaltender Ron Tugnutt and defenseman Jean-Luc Grand-Pierre. This marks the first event in a season-long series spotlighting notable alumni and moments that have defined the Blue Jackets\u2019 25 years in the National Hockey League.<\/p>\n<p>King and the four players will participate in an autograph session beginning at 6 p.m. on the Nationwide Arena concourse. The alumni will then be recognized in an on-ice ceremony prior to puck drop, which is scheduled for 7 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Columbus Blue Jackets announcing that the organization\u2019s first head coach Dave King and four former players from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5108],"tags":[17137,39163,3644,5180,897,230,5179,31440,5,24841,2912,4,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-250114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-columbus-blue-jackets","8":"tag-25th-anniversary","9":"tag-alumni-reunion","10":"tag-blue-jackets","11":"tag-bluejackets","12":"tag-columbus","13":"tag-columbus-blue-jackets","14":"tag-columbusbluejackets","15":"tag-dave-king","16":"tag-hockey","17":"tag-hockey-celebration","18":"tag-nationwide-arena","19":"tag-nhl","20":"tag-tampa-bay-lightning"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115390494152430929","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}