Karlsson’s 1st 2 goals lift Blue Jackets over Coyotes 5-2
I think we got back to that. Sometimes I think he’s rushing his plays. With the smaller rink everything’s happening faster.
Centers Evgeni Malkin and Matt Cullen returned to the lineup after missing practice Thursday from being under the weather. “And we did a good job of closing it off in the third, so that’s a good hockey game”.
“Let’s not even talk about playoffs”. It’s about trying to get better. Afterwards, he gave me two and a game (misconduct).
Goaltender Brian Foster made 22 saves for the Wheeling Nailers (5-5-0-0) in a 2-1 road loss to the Reading Royals Wednesday.
Wheeling’s next game is Friday at home against the Royals, 7:35 p.m. They hadn’t won such a game since January 5, 2014.
Marc-Andre Fleury made 26 saves for the Penguins but Pittsburgh went 0-for-6 on the power play. The team came in against a hot Penguins team who were fresh off a win against the top team in the East, the Montreal Canadiens.
Bobrovsky was finally beaten by Patric Hornqvist with 57 seconds left to play, but had done enough to preserve the win for Columbus after second-period goals from Scott Hartnell and Brandon Saad.
“We want him to try and beat people”. He delivered that message to his players during the second intermission. “He’s a very cerebral man”, Lovejoy said.
It was one game, but you could tell something was different.
The Coyotes started to push back in the latter stages of the first period and continued to play that way for much of the middle stanza. Crosby picked up two assists and beat Mike Condon in the shootout. “And it went in”. It was his fourth goal of the season. It was how they lost.
After a quick glance at both of the team’s records this season, it would be easy to write off the Jackets, but there were bigger forces playing against them in the game. They are 3-0 in games that extend beyond the third period.
Sharks 3, Red Wings 2: DETROIT – Joe Pavelski scored his ninth goal of the season, and Martin Jones made 26 saves for San Jose, which improved to 7-1 in Detroit since the 2010-11 season.
The Arizona Coyotes look to continue their impressive start to the season as they head into Columbus to battle the underachieving Blue Jackets looking to regain their spot atop the Pacific division.
So, if the Blue Jackets need to get to 98 points, they’ll need a record of at least 40-18-6 or 41-19-4 or 42-20-2 the rest of the way.
Yet the momentum and the feel-good vibes that the offense was starting to figure it out faded 48 hours later.
“We know we have the ability to go on a run like that, because the guys in this room have done it here before”, Johansen said. In the second period, even at the end of the first, they were kind of taking it to us.
Coach Mike Johnston said he could see a few action in the near future.
“There was a scrum over by the bench”, said Doan, “and the ref gave Jenner and I each ten minutes”.
“He may get in here with three [games] in four [nights]”, Johnston said. “So we’re looking for probably a little bit better play from that pair as far as their defensive play”. Assists to Jordan Martinook and Anthony Duclair on the goal at 5:49.
Wheeling scored five goals in the final 4:10 of regulation to earn the victory.