The Columbus Blue Jacket noticed Sunday night time in Anaheim as a giant recreation. In the event that they received, they’d pull again to hockey .500 on the season. Nonetheless, the Geese had different concepts.
John Gibson made his season debut and made 39 saves to backstop the Geese to a 4-2 win over the Blue Jackets. 12 completely different gamers hit the scoresheet for the Geese in a balanced assault. For the Blue Jackets, their offensive struggles continued regardless of controlling the sport for lengthy stretches.
Recreation Recap
The Geese bought off to a fast begin. Simply over three minutes into the sport, Cutter Gauthier was capable of finding Brett Leason in entrance. He transformed a simple faucet in to make it 1-0.
To the Blue Jackets’ credit score, they bought stronger as the primary interval went on. They have been lastly capable of remedy Gibson on the ability play late within the interval. Yegor Chinakhov scored his fourth of the season on a setup by Zach Werenski. Werenski performed in his five hundredth NHL recreation Sunday.
Regardless of the Blue Jackets carrying momentum into the second interval, it was the Geese who took the 2-1 lead because of Jackson LaCombe. Ivan Provorov turned the puck over within the defensive zone which led to LaCombe finally changing on a rebound.
The Blue Jackets outshot the Geese in all three intervals firing a complete of 41 pictures on Gibson. It was 11-7 within the second after which 17-13 within the third. Once more it was the Geese who scored first within the third.
Leo Carlsson was capable of finding a puck in a maze of our bodies and beat goalie Daniil Tarasov from the slot to make it 3-1. Kirill Marchenko scored his sixth of the season with the Blue Jackets pushing late to chop it to 3-2. For Marchenko, that marked a multi-point recreation and 15 factors in his first 14 video games of this season.
That was as shut because the Blue Jackets may get. Isac Lundestrom was capable of hit the empty internet to get to the ultimate rating of 4-2. Three video games in California noticed the Blue Jackets fireplace 117 pictures on goalies solely to attain 5. That’s a .957 save share. Tarasov stopped 26 of 29 on Sunday night time. With the loss, the Blue Jackets have misplaced 5 in a row going 0-4-1 in that stretch.
The Blue Jackets now have Monday off earlier than ending the highway journey in Seattle. In the meantime the Geese get a pair days off at house earlier than internet hosting the Vegas Golden Knights on Wednesday.
