Blue Jackets breakdown: St. Louis Blues capitalize on more costly mistakes
The Blue Jackets were better Saturday against the St. Louis Blues than they were 24 hours earlier at home against the Tampa Bay Lightning, but they didn’t win. The Blues opened their season with a 5-2 victory at Enterprise Center by capitalizing on Columbus mistakes in the final 9:17 of the third period to turn a tight game into a victory cruise.
Vladimir Tarasenko scored two goals and Pavel Buchnevich finished with a goal and assist to lead the Blues , who got their other goals from 20 seconds apart from Ivan Barbashev and Jake Neighbors in the third. Those goals turned a 2-2 game to a commanding 4-2 lead for St. Louis with 8:57 left.Gustav Nyquist and Sean Kuraly scored the Blue Jackets’ goals 18 seconds apart to knot it at 2-2 early in the second.
“You want the teams to earn it,” Larsen said. “If they’re going to get it, make them earn it. That’s a heck of a hockey team over there, but it’s just unfortunate that we’re just giving some stuff that I don’t think we need to be giving.”“St. Louis will get our attention. That’s all I need to say. It’s a team, it’s their home-opener, they’re ready to go. So, we better be awake for it.”“Go take a poll and see if anybody really feels sorry for you ... the other 32 teams. They don’t.
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