Jose Mourinho has changed his tune when it comes to the Europa League.Nine months ago, when Mourinho was coaching a Chelsea side struggling for form, he was openly dismissive of the prospect of playing in Europes second-tier competition, saying it was a different level of competition for a different level of player and a different level of club. It is not good for a big club to go there and win it.On Wednesday and now in charge of Manchester United, Mourinho was embracing it.We want to win the competition, Mourinho said, a day before United begins its group-stage campaign with a match at Dutch side Feyenoord. Its difficult to do it, its simple to feel it and to say. This is the way we want to approach the competition.Of course, Mourinho is not the reason why United is in the Europa League this season. The team missed out on the Champions League by finishing in fifth place in the Premier League under predecessor Louis van Gaal, and United now must endure the Thursday-Sunday fixture schedule that many English teams have found so tough in recent years.Mourinho believes it makes winning the Premier League this season even harder for United.Its more difficult, yes, he said.United has taken a strong squad to the Netherlands, although it is missing first-team regulars Wayne Rooney, Luke Shaw and Antonio Valencia as Mourinho looks ahead to Sundays Premier League game at Watford.On the absence of captain Rooney, Mourinho said: He plays every game since the beginning of the season. He plays for the England team, 90 minutes the last weekend. I want him to be fresh for the next Premier League match.United is coming off a 2-1 loss to Manchester City in the derby on Saturday, the teams first defeat under Mourinho. Feyenoord has won all five of its games in the Dutch league. D. J. 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Watch, now that everyone has gone cold on the Columbus Blue Jackets after several years of overvaluing them, theyll prove all the detractors wrong and make the playoffs. Or maybe not.Still, its hard to get a read on the Blue Jackets, who looked like a team on the rise following their 2014 playoff berth but has had so much go wrong in the two seasons since. General manager Jarmo Kekalainen, given a contract extension this fall, surprised many by eschewing Finnish prospect Jesse Puljujarvi with the third overall pick at the 2016 draft and taking forward?Pierre-Luc Dubois?instead. I get the thought process behind the decision: Dubois can play center and, having traded franchise center Ryan Johansen to Nashville last January for Seth Jones, Columbus needed to fill that void.Still, it was a risk for a franchise that has fallen off the map the past couple of years. But its worth remembering that the Blue Jackets still have offensive depth, a young and mobile blue line, and a former Vezina Trophy winner in goal. How bad can they be?Biggest new facesGiven Columbus relatively quiet offseason, at least in terms of adding veteran players, Dubois is likely to be the biggest new face in the lineup -- but he may only be around for a while. As Kekalainen told us in a recent interview, the process of nurturing a young player like Dubois is a marathon, and were in the first mile. If Dubois stays with the Blue Jackets beyond nine games this season, hell play meaningful minutes.Jones isnt new, although this will be his first full season with the Blue Jackets. He likely will pair up with Ryan Murray as the teams top defensive unit.?Watch for rookie Zach Werenski, who is coming off a monster year with Columbus championship American Hockey League affiliate, to make an impact as the Blue Jackets try to inject speed and mobility to their blue-line corps.John Tortorella -- who took over for Todd Richards in Columbus last season after the Blue Jackets miserable 0-7 start ?-- is coming off a disappointing turn as head coach of Team USA at the World Cup of Hockey. But the upside was that the United States early exit allowed him more time at his first training camp with the Blue Jackets.Biggest unknownsThe Blue Jackets were a mess in their own zone -- and often in goal -- for the first part of last season, and theey never crawled out of that hole.dddddddddddd They finished 29th in goals allowed, but there should be an asterisk there, as netminder Sergei Bobrovsky once again was dragged down by injury and inconsistent play. He looked like a different player or, more to the point, like the old Bobrovsky of Vezina Trophy fame at the World Cup of Hockey. If hes that player, the Blue Jackets will be right in the mix. Its that simple.Can the remade blue line, which will rely heavily on Jones, Murray and Werenski, emulate what we saw out of the?Pittsburgh Penguins?last season, moving the puck quickly and smartly to a group of potentially explosive forwards? Assuming Dubois is the future franchise center, what does the present look like down the middle? Can Boone Jenner, a 30-goal scorer, fill the void as a No. 1 center? Can captain Nick Foligno regain the form that saw him register 31 goals and 73 points two years ago -- only to see those totals crumble last year to 12 goals and 37 points? And can Sam Gagner make a last career stand with the Blue Jackets?Sure thingsHmm. OK, were still thinking. Just kidding. The surest thing about Columbus is to expect the unexpected. As Kekalainen pointed out, if the Blue Jackets arent where they want to be, they cant blame the expectations, which are pretty much nil for this team to start the season.In terms of personnel, I continue to be so impressed with the evolution of Brandon Saad, who is entering his second season in Columbus after a shocking trade in the summer of 2015. Tortorella is going to ask Saad to do even more, including killing penalties -- which should help refine his two-way game. Saad is a two-time Stanley Cup winner who is coming off a 31-goal campaign and a team-best seven game-winning goals. This is about to become his team, and whether hes wearing a C or not, if the Blue Jackets are going to climb out of this rather sizeable pit, itll be Saad who leads them.PredictionSeriously, it wouldnt shock us all that much if the Blue Jackets become one of those Cinderella, worst-to-first kind of teams vying for a playoff spot next spring. But seeing is believing, especially with this team. 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