CHICAGO (AP) — Alexandre Texier opened the scoring within the first minute, Zach Werenski added a pair of assists, and the Columbus Blue Jackets beat the Chicago Blackhawks 5-2 on Saturday evening.
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The victory by the Eastern Conference’s worst crew over the Western Conference’s worst crew halted the Blue Jackets’ two-game shedding streak, and dropped Chicago to 0-4-2 in its final six video games.
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Boone Jenner, Mathieu Olivier and Cole Sillinger scored and Johnny Gaudreau added an empty-netter for Columbus. Elvis Merzlikins stopped 26 photographs and picked up his twelfth win of the season.
“I don’t think there’s any pressure on us now,” Merzlikins mentioned. “The last few games we’re playing against teams and not even looking at where they’re at in the standings, top or in the bottom.”
Philipp Kurashev and Ryan Donato scored for the Blackhawks as goaltender Arvid Soderblom made 26 saves.
Texier took benefit of Blackhawks defenseman Seth Jones’ giveaway within the Chicago zone to attain 33 seconds into the sport. Texier picked up the unfastened puck Jones left within the slot and whistled it previous Soderblom inside a stride of accumulating it.
“I thought we were in control most of the night,” Sillinger mentioned. “When you get a start like we did, I thought we kept building on it.”
The Blue Jackets made it 2-0 on Jenner’s waist-high deflection of Werenski’s shot at 14:05 of the primary.
“It was a really sloppy game right from the start,” Blackhawks coach Luke Richardson mentioned. “We played really slow. They kept coming at us. It’s a bad combination.
“We went down the wrong path.”
The Blackhawks scored with 2:28 left within the first on Kurashev’s tenth purpose of the season. He beat Merzlikins from six ft on rookie of the 12 months candidate Connor Bedard’s setup. It was the primary purpose for the Blackhawks in virtually 100 minutes, going again to the second interval of final Sunday’s loss to Detroit. Opposing groups scored 9 occasions between Nick Foligno’s purpose towards the Red Wings and Kurashev’s tally.
“It’s really frustrating,” Kurashev mentioned of the sequence of losses. “We weren’t executing today.”
Werenski arrange Olivier at 3:09 of the second to make it 3-1. Sillinger made it 4-1 halfway via the second interval.
“It’s a good win for us, a good start,” Blue Jackets coach Pascal Vincent mentioned. “I thought we got better in the second period.”
Soderblom misplaced his 14th straight sport.
Chicago is 1-6-3 in its final 10 residence video games. The Blackhawks’ final highway win was in Tampa on Nov. 9, and so they begin a three-game highway journey on Monday.
UP NEXT
Blue Jackets: Host Vegas on Monday.
Blackhawks: At Colorado on Monday.
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