Final Score: Blue Jackets 2 – Stars 1

Game Summary

The Jackets first game off their bye week started off very well. The team looked refreshed, they were skating hard and making things happen on the ice. They controlled the play, with a 63.89% Corsi at 5 on 5 in the opening frame, had a 13-5 edge in scoring chances and 4-2 in high danger chances. And they even scored a goal.

Tyler Motte does some work down low. Pressure causes a turnover and Schroeder finishes it off.#CBJ pic.twitter.com/7Godv5rS2Q

— 1st Ohio Battery (@1stOhioBattery) January 19, 2018

Tyler Motte gets in on Ben Bishop and Dan Hamhuis quick, forcing Hamhuis to rush and make a bad pass. Hamhuis throws it out to the front of the net; no one is ready for it, except Jordan Schroeder who knocks in his first as a Blue Jacket.

After the first the Jackets seemed to just mail it in. Everything positive from the first was gone. Dallas demolished them in the middle frame. Dallas had an insane 80.77% Corsi at 5 on 5, they held the Jackets to just a single scoring chance and it was not a high danger chance.

It was a disastrous period, the only saving grace being the play of Joonas Korpisalo. He faced a barrage of shots, 36 in total, and stopped 35 of them. He was the reason the Jackets were able to pick up two points this game. He was perfect in that dreadful second period, stopping all 13 Dallas shots, none bigger than this one on Tyler Seguin.

Alternate angle...#CBJ pic.twitter.com/KoDaZgX0Vj

— 1st Ohio Battery (@1stOhioBattery) January 19, 2018

Dropping the stick seems to be a common thing for Blue Jackets goal-tenders.

The Stars thought the tied the game in the third when Alexander Radulov got a step on Zach Werenski and made a power move to the front of the net.

John Tortorella is: Correct!

Refs concur, overturn the goal. Here's the interference. Textbook.#CBJ up 1-0 once again. pic.twitter.com/elF1fP0zm4

— 1st Ohio Battery (@1stOhioBattery) January 19, 2018

Radulov clearly bumps Korpisalo, the Blue Jackets challenged and the goal was overturned. Radulov however did manage to get a goal later on in the third, tying the game late, and blowing Korpisalo’s shutout.

Goalies and big saves were the story in regulation. Korpisalo made that huge one in the second period and Ben Bishop made a game-saver with under a minute to go on Alexander Wennberg.

This is unfair. #CBJ pic.twitter.com/MnCviZz0BS

— 1st Ohio Battery (@1stOhioBattery) January 19, 2018

Bishop uses every inch of his 6’7 frame to get across and make that save. On any regular sized goalie, that’s a goal for sure. That save sent the game into overtime. In OT the Jackets couldn’t convert on a power play and the game headed to the shootout. In the shootout, Artemi Panarin did his thing, Korpisalo stood tall and the Jackets came out with the victory.

That stick didn't help. Might as well chuck it.#YeastMode #CBJ pic.twitter.com/4f55rkn66m

— 1st Ohio Battery (@1stOhioBattery) January 19, 2018

The Jackets, for some reason, now have another long break. They have four days off before they take their first trip down to Vegas to take on the Golden Knights.

Stat of the Night

After scoring, again, in the shootout ... Artemi Panarin is 5-for-9 this season (55.5%) and 10-for-16 (62.5%) in his #NHL career (2+ seasons).

He was 5-for-7 (71.4%) in two seasons w/ #Blackhawks

Is that good? Because ... I sort of feel like that's good.#CBJ

— Brian Hedger (@JacketsInsider) January 19, 2018

Stats courtesy of Natural Stat Trick and Hockey-Reference.

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