He gave that up to sign with the Sabres on March 14, two days after RPI’s season ended in the ECAC Hockey tournament quarterfinals against Harvard. The Blue Jackets moved into 27th in the standings, a point ahead of Vancouver, and won two in a row for the first time since February 23-27. He assisted on Panarin’s goal later in the period and scored in the third period to tie the game at four.
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A meaningless NHL game tonight between two teams who won’t be making the Stanley Cup playoffs just got a lot more interesting, especially for RPI hockey fans. “After that, we’ve showed we can be a good team”. I feel really good about a number of kids that came here and played who are back in the minors, but there is no chance any of this makes a difference as far as where we are as a team.”Hartnell also had two assists while Patrick Kane and Artemi Panarin had two goals and one assist each for the Blackhawks, who finished third in the Western Conference’s Central Division and will open the playoffs against St. Louis”.
The Blue Jackets got off to a slow start and the Blackhawks jumped all over them. F Artem Anisimov, F Marian Hossa and F Andrew Shaw were held out with injuries and D Duncan Keith remained suspended….
“I didn’t need to say anything to the team, they knew where we stood after the first period”, Tortorella said. It was fun to break the [American] point streak this year, and now to be the first American player to win the scoring title is pretty special in itself, too.
NOTES: Columbus closed its road schedule with three straight wins and a 16-23-2 record…. Kane tied it again at 9:49 with a hard one-timer from the slot.
Power-play opportunities_Columbus 1 of 2; Buffalo 1 of 4. He finished with 22 saves.
“For anyone who is out of the lineup, I don’t care what time of the year it is, if you have to sit and watch a game, it makes you hungry to get back in there”, Toews said.
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Wennberg’s third point of the night was the go-ahead goal 3:09 into the third period, finishing a ideal pass from Hartnell behind the Chicago net. TV: 7 p.m. ET, FSN Ohio (Columbus), MSG BuffaloABOUT THE BLUE JACKETS (32-40-8): A two-time 20-goal scorer with the Rangers, Brandon Dubinsky tallied twice in Wednesday’s win to boost his total to 17 – his highest in four seasons with Columbus. Chicago scored nine seconds into the game when Kane ripped a shot from the right circle past goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky for the earliest goal scored against the Jackets this season.
