There’s a phrase used in soccer, “parking the bus,” used when a team plays a frustrating brand of what’s labeled anti-football and has no real ambition to create any offense whatsoever. Saturday night in Raleigh, the Columbus Blue Jackets not only parked the bus, but removed the wheels, set it on cinder blocks and auctioned it off for parts.
It took Andrei Svechnikov 35 minutes to break through, but just like Thursday, that proved to not be enough for the Carolina Hurricanes. The Blue Jackets tied the game twice before winning in the fourth round of a shootout to give them four points on their trip to Raleigh, taking a 3-2 decision.