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Fresh off a blockbuster trade that sent Kirill Marchenko to the Toronto Maple Leafs and Matthew Knies to the Columbus Blue Jackets as the deal\u2019s main pieces, Knies quickly endeared himself to Blue Jackets fans. Playing with a bit of a chip on his shoulder and eager to show the hometown fans what he can do, Knies set a Blue Jackets franchise record.<\/p>\n
In less than one minute, Knies had a goal, an assist, and two points. His play paved the way for a Columbus 1-3 lead after the first period. Midway through the second, Knies scored another goal, becoming the first Blue Jackets player to score two goals in their debut.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Having no time to learn Rick Bowness\u2019 system and with one lone practice under his belt, Knies went out and showed his ability and what he can bring to the team going forward. Knies was also very disruptive in front of the net throughout the game vs. the Buffalo Sabers<\/p>\n
Bowness and Knies teammates were impressed given all he had been through. Knies blocked out months of trade rumors and the ultimate trade that brought him to Columbus, and did what Bowness has been preaching: just play hockey.<\/p>\n
Matthew Knies returned his teammates\u2019 admiration when meeting with reporters after the game, saying, \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of potential in this room, a lot of skill, a lot of guys that work their tails off. We\u2019ve got to keep moving forward and just keep with what we\u2019ve been doing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Knies just missed a hat trick as his breakaway attempt was stopped. For Blue Jackets fans, Knies provided a debut that will be talked about for a long time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo via Getty Images\/NHLI Fresh off a blockbuster trade that sent Kirill Marchenko to the Toronto Maple Leafs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5108],"tags":[3644,5180,897,230,5179,36578,5,797,4,12090],"class_list":["post-677733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-columbus-blue-jackets","tag-blue-jackets","tag-bluejackets","tag-columbus","tag-columbus-blue-jackets","tag-columbusbluejackets","tag-debut","tag-hockey","tag-matthew-knies","tag-nhl","tag-rick-bowness"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/117377520768413378","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677733","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=677733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}