In a fit of petulance after the Blue Jackets lost an early season game to the Maple Leafs, I characterized the team as soft. These things happen, and it was accurate at the time. Of late they seem to have left that behind them, and last night I thought they deserved the moniker solid. When the Blues got up early, they closed ranks and didn't allow another one, though I felt the Blues pushed to try to get the extra goal. Then they went out and got two of their own, and shut the game down. That was a sterling example of 'Blue Jackets Hockey' especially when they buried the Blues with the forecheck in the second period.
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