The Columbus Blue Jackets entered this game having lost two in a row. The Vancouver Canucks, meanwhile, somehow had the fewest home wins in the league. Which negative streak would end?
The struggles in Alberta led Dean Evason to shuffle his forward lines dramatically:
JVR-Monahan-Johnson
Voronkov-Fantilli-Marchenko
ZAR-Sillinger-Olivier
Kuraly-Danforth-Labanc
First Period
Despite being on the second leg of a back-to-back, the Jackets seemed to get the message and started well. First, Cole Sillinger battled for the puck behind the net and made a seemingly impossible pass around the goa right to Mathieu Olivier.
Cole Sillinger must have eyes in the back of his head.