In Columbus Tuesday night, Pekka Rinne made 35 saves to help the Nashville Predators beat the Blue Jackets, 3-1.
“I seem to see the puck pretty good,” Rinne said. “Tonight, I gave up a few not so great rebounds and the guys were there for me.”
Calle Jarnkrok picked up the game-winner with 5:35 left in regulation to give the Preds a 2-1 lead.
“We played a lot of good teams on this trip,” Nashville’s Roman Josi said. “It didn’t start the way we wanted to in San Jose but after that, you play those four teams and get six points, that’s a pretty good trip. It gives us some momentum.”
Matt Irwin. scored the first Preds goal and Viktor Arvidsson scored an empty-netter to seal it.
The game was slog for the Blue Jackets who were on the second game in two nights after losing to the New York Rangers Monday in New York.
“We did a lot of good things,” Columbus’ Nick Foligno said. “We maybe could have got a little more traffic on him than we did. He was seeing everything. He’s a good goalie. You have to make it hard on him. It was one of those games, the next team that scores wins. It happened to be them.”
Pierre-Luc Dubois had the lone goal for the Jackets when he tied the game, 1-1.
“I read it,” Dubois said. “It all happened so fast so I decided to go on him. Any other night it might have been a mistake. I’m just happy it went in.”
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Joonas Korpisalo made 26 saves in taking the loss.
A night after yielding three power play goals to the Rangers, the Blue Jackets killed off all four chances for Nashville Tuesday.
“Penalty kill played really well tonight,” the Jackets’ Seth Jones said. “We didn’t let them get set up that much.”
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