After a road trip the Columbus Blue Jackets would like to forget, the Dallas Stars came to town to kick off Columbus’ back-to-back. The story of the night would be inexperience versus experience. The Stars defenseman Ryan Suter has played more games than the entire blue line the Jackets iced in this game. The youth showed too. The effort was there, but without the solid play of Tarasov it wouldn’t have been close.
1st Period
Less than two minutes into the game, Chinakhov went to the room with what looked like a knee injury.