In Columbus, the Blue jackets put togeth3r a solid effort on Saturday and defeated the Carolina Hurricanes, 4-3, on penalties.
Columbus’ Kirill Marchenko completed a hat trick in the third period to tie the game, 3-3, and force an extra session, which solved nothing.
“For me it was my dream, scoring three goals at home for the fans,” Marchenko said. “Thank you so much to the fans. It was great.”
Joonas Korpisalo made 39 saves in the Blue Jackets win.
“That was a big goal in the moment, tied it up 3-3, his third of the night, so we’re super happy,” Blue Jackets forward Cole Sillinger said. “The guy for sure deserves it, he works super hard. The puck is going in the net for him right now.”
Columbus moved to 12-24-2.
Marchenko gave the Blue Jackets a 2-0 lead in the middle frame.
“He’s so coachable,” Columbus coach Brad Larsen said. “He wants to learn and it’s not just the offensive side. He’s coming to you with really good questions. He wants to see video on certain things to get better.
“He’s always smiling, he’s always working. He’s a really neat personality to have around. You love to see him, and I like that because the smile just gets bigger. It’s great.”
The Hurricanes have list lost three straight, 0-2-1, and dropped to 25-8-7.
Carolina scored three times in the middle frame to erase the 2-0 lead of the Blue Jackets.
Max Pacioretty hit for a double in his season debut with the Canes, and Brady Skjei added a single marker in the rally.
“We’re a confident group, and with short-term memory we’ll forget about this,” Skjei said. “It wasn’t our game. We didn’t play the way we needed to play for the whole 60 minutes.
“We just didn’t have quite our A game. It’s obviously nice to get a point, but I think we wanted a better effort and a better result.”
Kent Johnson was credited with the deciding marker in the skills portion of the evening’s affairs.
Antti Raanta made 15 saves in the Canes loss.
“We can’t take bad penalties,” Carolina coach Rod Brind’Amour said. “That’s the killer. Little uncharacteristic things cost us the game. We still could have won the game very easily.”
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