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Post Battle #31: The worst game of the season |
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Final Score: Oilers 7 – Blue Jackets 2
Game Summary
Much like John Tortorella’s press conference this is going to short and sweet. The Blue Jackets were flat out embarrassed at home against the 28th place team in the league. The Oilers are clearly much better than their record indicates, they have the second best Corsi in the league, but good team or bad team, the performance by the Blue Jackets was terrible.
The Oilers have fire power there is no doubt about that. In their last three games they have scored a combined nine goals on Carey Price and Sergei Bobrovsky while getting shut out by Curtis McElhinney. If that isn’t the ultimate you can’t predict hockey moment I don’t know what is.
The game started out ok for the Jackets, down just a goal after one, but the second period everything unravelled. Sergei Bobrovsky was off his game, it’s not often you see him lose track of the puck like he did on the Ryan Nugent-Hopkins goal. The dagger in the period was the Mark Letestu shorthanded breakaway goal with under a second left in the period.
The Jackets did score a couple of goals in the third. Oliver Bjorkstrand scored his sixth of the season on a nice little set up by Markus Nutivaara.
Bjorkstand had a multi-point game, as he set up the Jackets other goal.
The main concern from this game is the health of Brandon Dubinsky. He got into a fight with Zack Kassian late in the third and looked really shaken up after.
Today Aaron Portzline learned that Dubinsky has a fractured cheek/orbital bone.
This is not good news, and is something that will keep Dubinsky out a while. We won’t know the full extent until the team makes an official announcement. The team has recalled Jordan Schroeder from Cleveland in the meantime.
Stat of the Night
Stats courtesy of
Natural Stat Trick and
Hockey-Reference.
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