Columbus Blue Jackets @ Dallas Stars: Season 25 Game 6

After a much-needed meral boost following their 3-2 win over the Tampa Bay Lightning at home Saturday night, the Columbus Blue Jackets hopped on their plane and flew down to Dallas. The Stars have been decent this season, holding a 3-2-0 record coming into their arena tonight. That said, the 2-3-0 Blue Jackets would look to play spoiler and pack two road points from this single-game road trip. Let me preface this by saying it was a great game, so let's recap it!

The visiting Blue Jackets would be on the board first with Adam Fantilli's second goal this season, and it would come off an insane slap shot at 4:33! Our Captain, Boone Jenner, would add his fourth assist this season with the primary, while Kent Johnson would get his first assist this season on the secondary. There's no denying that special teams for the Blue Jackets have struggled in the first five games of this young season, but tonight, you'd never know. At 14:40, we'd see Cole Sillinger sent to the box for holding Radek Faksa, but have no fear, the power play kill is actually here. Yes, you read that right, and I'll double the shock because, following the kill, the Blue Jackets would get their own power play following Boone Jenner being interfered with by Stars' Marik Bourque and score! The second goal of the game would belong to Captain Boone Jenner, marking his second of the season at 18:42. Charlie Coyle adds an assist three on the primary, while Damon Severson adds his second on the secondary. The Blue Jackets would contain the Stars for the remainder of the period, taking a huge two-goal lead into the second period.  

Period 2 would see just one goal, and it would break the Blue Jackets' chance at a road shutout. Tyler Seguin would add his second goal of the season at 11:58. Elvis Merzlikins, in the visitor's net for the Blue Jackets, didn't have a chance at stopping this goal, either. Colin Blackwell and Adam Eme would each grab their first assists of the season on the first goal of the night for the Stars. The Blue Jackets would manage to hold the Stars to this lone goal, allowing them to maintain a one-goal lead ahead of the final regulation period. 

At 7:21, the Blue Jackets would come up with a beautiful play that would result in their third goal tonight! This goal became Denton Mateychuk's first of the season. In addition, the primary assist would become Yegor Chinakov's first assist this season, while Zach Aston-Reese adds his second assist this season on the secondary. The best part of the Blue Jackets going ahead by two goals again was that they kept pushing for more, instead of relying on their reestablished two-goal cushion. Toward the end of the period, at 13:45, Colin Blackwood would grab the stick of Blue Jackets' Dimitri Voronkov, and he'd make the Stars pay for it with his third goal this season at 14:26! For those keeping track, that's the Blue Jackets' second power play goal tonight. Sean Monahan would finally get his first assist this season on the primary, while Kirill Marchenko would add his second of the season on the secondary. This brings us to a 4-1 Blue Jackets road-game lead.  Kent Johnson would then make it 5-1, his second goal this season at 17:00, putting the cherry on top of a great evening. 

A huge congratulations to Elvis Merzlikins, who doesn't just finish with incredible numbers tonight, but gains his first career win in American Airlines Arena. His save percentage tonight was a solid .957 thanks to his 22 saves on the Stars' 23 shots on his net. These numbers would also get Elvis Merszlikins the First Star of the Game. Hell yes, 5th Line. 

Captain Boone Jenner would finish with a multipoint night, 1-1-2, and this would get him the Second Star of the Game tonight. 

Tyler Seguin, the only Dallas Star to score tonight, would get the Third Star of the Game.  

Our team will travel home and play again on Friday night. They will host one of their rivals, the Washington Capitals, on Grateful Dead Night at 7:00 p.m. If you're going to the game, have fun! We'll see if Kirill Marchenko can continue his point streak, and if Elvis Merzlikins plays, he could become the second-most-winning goalie in Columbus Blue Jackets history, behind only Sergei Bobrovsky. If you have tickets already, consider yourself lucky. If you don't, I'd maybe be finding some, 5th Line! 

GO CBJ! 









  

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