In Anaheim Friday, the Columbus Blue Jackets’ Sergei Bobrovsky made 35 saves in a 4-0 shutout of the Ducks.
Sergei Bobrovsky – file photo by Lewis Bleiman
For Bobrovsky, it was his second shutout of the season.
“He’s been solid right on through,” Columbus coach John Tortorella said. “That’s what we were talking about in the third period: Let’s play for him a little bit here and try to help him out because he bailed us out in a lot of ways.”
The Jackets got two goals each from Sam Gagner and Brandon Saad.
“For us, the biggest thing is trying to limit some of the chances and limit some of the shots in front of him so he can stay fresh,” Gagner said. “He’s been playing unbelievable, and it’s something we get a lot of confidence from.”
The Jackets did all the offensive damage in the first period and took the crowd and Ducks out of the game early.
Anaheim was rudely awakened after drubbing the Nashville Predators on the strength of a big second period in their last game.
“That’s what makes it so difficult to swallow, because the guys played so well in the last game,” Ducks captain Ryan Getzlaf said. “I thought tonight we came out flat. The energy wasn’t there. We weren’t skating and we weren’t doing the things that we like to do, and it showed.”
John Gibson made 28 saves in the loss.
“We got outplayed by a hungrier hockey club tonight,” Ducks coach Randy Carlyle said. “We were nowhere near NHL-caliber playing in our performance tonight.”
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