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With tonight's game being earlier, I did miss a fair bit of it. Sorry, 5th Line. We will pick up with my typical blog in Period 3. That said, this is how the scoring worked out for both teams by period up to that point.  Period 1: Columbus Blue Jackets lead 3-1 after the opening period. This is how. Columbus Blue Jackets Scoring: Denton Heinen: 1-0-1 His goal was scored at 2:48  Boone Jenner: 0-1-1. His assist came on Denton Heinen's goal. This is his twenty-second this season.  Zach Werenski: 0-3-3. Zach had an assist on every Blue Jackets goal this period. These are his Fifty-third, fifty-fourth, and fifty-fifth this season. He sits at 75 points after this period.  Damon Severson: 1-0-1. He had the Blue Jackets' second goal of this game at 8:58.  Cole Sillinger: 0-2-2. He had his twenty-fourth assist on Damon Severson's goal and his twenty-fifth on Mathieu Olivier's goal.  Mathieu Olivier: 1-0-1. He had the Blue Jackets' third goal tonight at 15:16. ...

After a dominant win over the Carolina Hurricanes on Tuesday, 5-1, the Blue Jackets would look to continue their push for points and a playoff spot . Tonight, the Blue Jackets wouldn't have the best start. Rangers ' Tye Kartye would high-stick Blue Jackets' Mason Marchment just 4:53 into the game. A goal would come out of this power play , but it wouldn't belong to the Blue Jackets. Rangers' Vincent Trocheck would add his fifteenth goal this season, giving his team an early 1-0 road lead, thanks to his shorthanded goal at 5:41. This goal would have no assists . The Blue Jackets would break through with their first goal tonight at 14:33, and it would become the fourth this season for Isac Lundestrom . Now, the NHL changed the assists on this goal around Period 3. After said update, this goal would have only one assist, going to our Captain, Boone Jenner, for his twenty-first this season. Then, seconds left in the opening period, Conor Garland would shoot a puc...

The Carolina Hurricanes sat in 1st in the Metropolitan Division with 90 points. In contrast, the Columbus Blue Jackets, at the start of this game, were just 1 point out of the 1st or 2nd Eastern Division Wildcard with 79 points. The Blue Jackets had more to gain tonight from the 2 points on the line, but even atop the division, the Hurricanes had plenty of reason to fight for those season-changing points, too. I have every faith in our Blue Jackets, but I can't lie, I was nervous about this game. Let me tell you, those concerns of mine disappeared faster than Ohio's spring weather this past weekend!  Early into the game, at 4:23, Hurricanes' Seth Jarvis would go to the penalty box for 4 minutes after high-sticking Zach Werenski. Thankfully, #8 would be okay and continue to play. Bonus: Mason Marchment would score goal sixteen of his season, putting us up 1-0, at 5:25! Charlie Coyle continues collecting assists with his thirty-sixth this season on the primary, and Adam Fanti...

Don't let the shots on goal fool you; this was a tight, exciting game with no brotherly love to be found on the ice! 4:21 into the game, Kirill Marchenko would gain his twenty-fifth goal of the season, giving us a 1-0 lead! Adam Fantilli adds his twenty-eighth assist this season on the primary, while Damon Severson adds his twenty-second with the secondary. A few minutes later, at 10:24, Alex Bump would shoot the puck so hard into our net that it would jump out before the buzzer could go off, but it did go in for his second goal of the season. The tying goal would give Emil Andrae his eleventh assist this season on the primary, and Christian Dvorak adds his twenty-sixth assist this season on the secondary. Each team would continue to have good chances to score, but just that, good chances. The period would end with a 1-1 tie between the Flyers and Blue Jackets, but the Blue Jackets would lead shots on goal in this opening period, 13-6.   Period 2 would end with the same 1-1 ti...

This game was tight to the end and beyond. Period 1 would end with a 0-0 draw. The Blue Jackets would dominate shots on goal, 14-3. Let me make this clear, especially when it comes to Kent Johnson: if not for former Blue Jackets goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky, we'd have been up by at least a few goals!   It would take until 13:01 into Period 2 for a goal to be scored. Adam Fantilli finally beat Sergei Bobrovsky as the Blue Jackets blocked a puck sent toward Elvis Merzlikins, then redirected it for a three-on-one charge down the ice! This was goal number nineteen of Adam Fantilli's season, and it would yield only one assist, Mason Marchment's eighteenth this season. The middle period would conclude with a 1-0 Blue Jackets lead, but also a holding penalty against the Blue Jackets' Damon Severson, putting him in the box for two minutes at the start of Period 3. Shots on goal this period would again be led by the Blue Jackets, but by a smaller margin, 10-7. 1:28 into Period 3 ...

 It's a quick turnaround, 5th Line, as the Blue Jackets played a makeup game from the January snowstorm at home yesterday against the L.A. Kings, then hopped on a flight to Tampa Bay to play the Lightning tonight! I must say, the Blue Jackets have vastly improved their play in back-to-back games this season, and you'll see why soon. Period 1 would prove that this would be an exciting game full of energy and skill. The Blue Jackets and Lightning would be nipping at each other's skates from puck drop on. The Blue Jackets would lead shots on goal this opening period, 9-4. Still, the Lightning would have the first goal of the game at 13:38. This goal would become the eighth this season for Gage Goncalves. Victor Hedman comes away with his ffifteenth assist this season on the primary. The unreal Nikita Kucherov would add his seventieth assist this season on the secondary. Towards the end of this period, Cole Sillinger would hold his own in a fight with Lightning's J.J. Moser...