“Obviously, there was a lot of traffic in front of the net and (Oliver Bjorkstrand) made a great screen. “Once I shoot it, it usually doesn’t matter where I am on the ice,” said Laine, whose first goal was off a one-timer from above the face-off circles near the blue line.
That’s basically the storyline of the Jackets’ entire season. Laine also scored at 6:11 of the second period to put Columbus up 2-1, giving him goals in back-to-back games after a 14-game drought, but his impressive individual effort just wasn’t enough for a win. Patrik Laine’s second of two goals in the game, a dazzling end-to-end number to tie it 3-3 at 11:32 of the third, is what ultimately forced overtime and at least earned the Blue Jackets another point in their new quest to stay ahead of the Detroit Red Wings in last place of the Central Division. Enstrom made it 2-1 at 6:33, scoring on a wrist shot for his first goal in 88 games dating. 23 in Columbus, but that’s just stat filler at this point.īrett Connolly scored the third goal for Chicago in his Blackhawks debut after a trade, putting his new team up 3-2 at 8:21 of the third, but the Blue Jackets pulled even thanks to their biggest positive from yet another loss. Laine shot wide on a penalty shot at 2:46. They also dropped on 6-5 in a game decided by shootout Feb. Technically, it was the Jackets’ second loss to Chicago in 3-on-3 overtime and third time in a game that lasted longer than three periods. So, they just came in and played.”Īnd lost in overtime to the Blackhawks. Again. There was no guessing here whether we were going to be sellers or buyers, so everybody knew what was going to happen. “I think it’s overthought, as far as the (trade) deadline, deadline day (Monday) … the players knew this was going to happen. “I thought we played good tonight,” said Blue Jackets coach John Tortorella, who played a second game against the Blackhawks with a lineup depleted by injuries and three trades completed this past weekend. There are only 12 games left in this woebegone season of discontent and none of those games are against Patrick Kane and the Blackhawks, who went 6-2-0 in the series after defeating the Jackets, 4-3, on Brandon Hagel’s goal 1 :25 into overtime at Nationwide Arena. The only good news for the Blue Jackets after another loss to the Chicago Blackhawks on Monday night was contained to two facts.
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