Sutter scores tiebreaking goal as Canucks beat Blue Jackets

The Canucks were outshot 22-7 in the second period and if not for five stellar stops – including Foligno on a partial break, Jack Johnson with a heavy power-point blast and David Savard with a rocket at the buzzer – the game could have gone south in a hurry. The tandem of Daniel Sedin and Jannik Hansen each assisted on each other’s goal.At 10:19 of the first, Hansen took a feed from Sedin and scored off a snap wrister from in front of Bobrovsky.At 17:12, Hansen made a nifty play from below the goal line, making a behind-the-back pass to Sedin, who had found space between the circles.

John Tortorella’s lone season coaching the Vancouver Canucks can only be described as disastrous. Tortorella is aware he has not had that much training time with his players and still has a long way to go and get the Blue Jackets back on track. Vancouver recalled goaltender Jacob Markstrom from Utica of the American Hockey League, where he completed a two-game conditioning assignment after suffering a hamstring injury October 6, and reassigned goaltender Richard Bachman.ABOUT THE BLUE JACKETS (4-11-0): Scott Hartnell’s seven goals share the team lead with center Boone Jenner after the rugged left winger scored twice in Friday’s 4-2 loss in Anaheim and Hartnell also boasts a team-best 21.9 shooting percentage. Once he made the pass, I had feeling I could probably get by the guy just the way I was moving at the time.

Henrik Sedin restored the hope to make it 3-3 and then Brandon Sutter scored off a breakaway to seal the deal and the captain then hit the empty net to make it a most memorable night for Markstrom. After a sloppy, scoreless second period, the Blue Jackets took a 3-2 lead at 8:01 of the third when Atkinson and defenseman David Savard teamed up for a brilliant short-handed goal.Savard, from deep in his own zone, found Atkinson behind the Canucks’ power-play pointmen, springing him for a clean look at Markstrom.

“…my whole mindset is that we need to win games”. “We just needed a win to get our confidence back”. But it generated nothing.

“Our PK has been so good all year”, Desjardins said. We were out of synch. “You will hardly ever win when you give up two on the power play and a shorthanded one like that”. Dorsett returned late in the first wearing a visor. Bobrovsky has given up seven goals in his last three games. Columbus LW Rene Bourque was a healthy scratch for a sixth straight game. The teams split the last two season series 1-1-0 with each winning on the road in 2014-15.3. Christopher Tanev is questionable with an upper-body injury.

It’s the one thing the Blue Jackets feel they have the most control over and what can help them get out of an 0-5 slump on home ice. They meet the Senators on Thursday night. He and a second-round pick were acquired from the Washington Capitals in exchange for first- and third-round picks.