In Columbus, Jack Roslovic scored with less than five left in regulation to give the Blue Jackets a 3-2 lead they would not surrender to the Carolina Hurricanes on Monday night.
“I just saw open ice,” Roslovic said. “We were trying to move the puck north and try to make a play at the net.”
Joonas Korpisalo made 22 saves for the win.
Brock McGinn and Nino Niederreiter were the Canes’ goal scorers.
“We’re working hard to come back and our defenseman thinks he’s got help and the help thinks it’s your guy and take him and it happens,” Carolina head coach Rod Brind’Amour said. “It shouldn’t but it wasn’t because of a lack of effort.”
Scott Harrington and Cam Atkinson scored for the Blue Jackets to give them 1-0 and 2-1 leads in the game.
“We’ve been kind of struggling lately to really find our groove and tonight felt good to have a couple things go our way,” Harrington said. “We’ll definitely take those two points.”
“We really worked hard tonight, being short-staffed and back-to-back,” Brind’Amour said. “I thought we grinded it out. We probably deserved better.”
Alex Nedeljkovic took the loss on 19 saves.
“The guys did a good job keeping the shots to the outside for the most part,” Nedeljkovic said. “They really didn’t get much in tight there and made my job easy tonight.”
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