Blackhawks Give Columbus 6th Straight Loss in 4-1 Victory

Getting something resembling the Bobrovsky of 2012-13 would be ideal, but even if he were average things would look much different for the Blue Jackets. “I don’t know if we’re looking for someone else to do it, if we’re easing ourselves into games to wait for something bad to happen”.

“This is getting old”. I can’t believe that, in nine days, we went from being a very good team in a lot of peoples’ books, to a team that can’t win a game. Anisimov turned around and backhanded the puck past goaltender Curtis McElhinney with 4:25 remaining in the second period. Those are costly in the best of times, and right now, most teams aren’t compelled to bust up their rosters in the second week of the season.

The ’43-44 Rangers team might be one of the worst teams ever and ended up losing each of their first 11 games (the longest losing streak to ever start a season) and didn’t win their first game until the 16th game of the season (they started 0-14-1).

Before Blackhawks fans could finish celebrating the breakthrough goal, Teravainen scored a power-play goal 65 seconds later. At the same time, his time with the Blue Jackets might come to an end if he allows this desperate situation to continue.

Penguins 2, Maple Leafs 1: PITTSBURGH – Evgeni Malkin and Olli Maatta scored first-period goals and Pittsburgh held on to beat Toronto.

Hossa’s goal proved to be the dagger, putting the Blackhawks up 3-0 in the third. McElhinney played well in Saturday’s 4-1 loss in Chicago. “It was a sloppy 5-on-3 and then he finished it off. It was a huge goal for us at that time”. Right winger Patrick Kane added a goal during the final two minutes into an empty net. The Chicago Blackhawks scratched D David Rundblad and RW Viktor Tikhonov….

A sold-out United Center crowd of 21,563 sprinkled with red No. 20 jerseys gave Saad a standing ovation during a first period TV timeout as the Blackhawks welcomed back the two-time champion and thanked him for his services.

Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman reported Saturday that the Blue Jackets and the Anaheim Ducks, who got on the board with a 4-1 victory over the Minnesota Wild Sunday, won’t rush to hand out pink slips and would rather go the trade route to shake things up.

NOTES: Chicago F Vincent Hinostroza played in his first National Hockey League game after being recalled from Rockford of the AHL.

It’s hard to back the Blue Jackets, as they have a few serious defensive issues out of the gate and have allowed 10 goals in their last two games.