Henrique´s goals and one assist along with teammates goals from Mike Cammalleri and defenceman David Schlemko led in New Jersey to the 4-3 victory over Buffalo.
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Andy Greene wasted no words.
“We had a couple of breakdowns and they wound up going in the back of the net”.
The Columbus Blue Jackets centre has been held out of the lineup for an illness since Saturday, when the Blue Jackets finally earned their first win of the 2015-2016 season.
“We didn’t play that well and that’s on me”, said Tortorella, whose team was outshot 24-14 and out-attempted 40-25.
“I don’t think anybody can say we’re out of shape”, Jarmo Kekäläinen said in response to the matter. We have to be better than that. Winning when they get outplayed for most of the game is certainly another.
The Blue Jackets’ biggest weakness has been on the defensive side, starting with the defensemen not looking anything like past year, and Sergei Bobrovsky carrying a 4.45 goals-against average and a 1-6 record. “I was trying to find it behind (Bobrovsky) and then I saw he just kind of made a little twist there and that was why he was able to shoot it away with this stick”.
“It could have been a game-changer there at that point”, Gelinas said, shaking his head. It was still 0-0.
Jackets forward Scott Hartnell told the National Hockey League “it’s a different atmosphere” with Tortorella around “and it makes guys accountable which is a great thing”. They came back and won the ninth game of the year on Saturday, pulling to. Like Jenner, Atkinson was in front of the net and was able to tap center Brandon Dubinsky’s feed into the net.
Johansen scored 26 goals with 45 assists in 82 games with Columbus last season. For me, I can’t have two goals back-to-back like that. I think we could have responded better.
Columbus wasn’t done as Hartnell got a goal of his own with 5:13 left that gave them a 3-0 edge. The New Jersey Devils are averaging 2.4 goals per game and scoring on 22.2 percent of their power plays.
He suggested that Monday’s 47-minute practice at Nationwide Arena was too demanding, that his players hadn’t recovered and were not at their peak when the puck dropped against the Devils.
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“It’s not good enough, (that) third period”, Schneider said. Tortorella’s new team carried a 1-1-0 record into Tuesday night’s game in New Jersey, after Columbus fired coach Todd Richards following an 0-7-0 start. Unfortunately for him, David Savard went to the box giving the Devils their fifth power play of the night. They didn’t go in. We’re going to leave him alone and see if he can get that straightened out. “Games like this, that’s what you need. It was like they were hanging around and in games like this it seems that comes to bite you in the third period sometimes and it got us tonight”. Those were probably the best two periods we played all year.
