Blue Jackets avoid further damage to lottery odds, fall to Buffalo Sabres in season finale
“Right now, it’s tough,” Blue Jackets center Sean Kuralty said. “You come off another loss and it’s just disappointing. It’s a disappointment. You look back, you wish you could’ve done some things differently. You see how you handled some things and I guess you learned some lessons, some the hard way. A lot of nights with not a lot of sleep and with anger, stress and all the above.
Had the Blue Jackets lost to the Pittsburgh Penguins on Thursday rather than rallying late to win 3-2 in overtime, the Blue Jackets would’ve finished last in the NHL and gotten a 25.5% chance to win the first pick in the lottery.th had they not lost to the Sabres . That would’ve reduced the odds to 9.5% for Columbus to win the “Bedard Sweepstakes.”
Buffalo made sure that didn’t happen thanks to three straight goals by Jeff Skinner, Victor Olofsson and Alex Tuch in the second period to build a 3-1 lead. Rookie Tyler Angle’s first NHL goal pulled the Blue Jackets to 3-2 with 1:36 left in the second, but Casey Mittelstadt pushed it to 4-2 at 4:03 of the third before Peyton Krebs made it 5-2 on a goal that went off Columbus defenseman Billy Sweezey’s stick.“I’ve now seen Game 7 of the finals and now this, so I think it’s all the incentive in the world to never find yourself back here,” Kuraly said. “I didn’t know what this was like. We’re at the bottom.
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