Final Score: Blue Jackets 2 – Red Wings 1
Game Summary
OH. MY. BOB. #CBJ pic.twitter.com/nNCBO4KAn0
— 1st Ohio Battery (@1stOhioBattery) November 12, 2017
Let's just admire this from another angle. #CBJ pic.twitter.com/iplacqq2YB
— 1st Ohio Battery (@1stOhioBattery) November 12, 2017
Save of the year is over its done. This is it. You are going to be hard pressed to find a save much better than that. Detroit with the two on none, they get off two royal road passes and somehow Sergei Bobrovsky is able to get his skate on the shot.
That save right there changed the narrative of this game. If that goes in we are talking about a fifth straight Blue Jackets loss and the third straight game in which they have only scored one goal. Instead Bobrovsky makes that save, the game ends up going to the shootout, setting up Jack Johnson for this:
Jack Johnson with the game-deciding goal in the ninth round of the shootout. Never in doubt.#CBJ pic.twitter.com/MegY7zVNex
— 1st Ohio Battery (@1stOhioBattery) November 12, 2017
Johnson ended what was an increasingly frustrating shootout. The Jackets skaters kept walking in and just shooting. There were no dekes or moves or anything. Sometimes this does work as we saw with Artemi Panarin, but he has one of the most lethal shots on the team. Not players have that type of release.
Panarin scored the only goal for the Jackets in regulation. It came off a real nice feed from Oliver Bjorkstrand.
Bjork and Bread, together at last.#CBJ pic.twitter.com/pFqLN86jiV
— 1st Ohio Battery (@1stOhioBattery) November 12, 2017
The Jackets need Panarin, along with their other top end players to start scoring. Getting depth scoring is nice but you need your best players to be your best players. Hopefully this goal and the shootout goal can help get Panarin on track.
just put this save in the hall of fame#CBJ pic.twitter.com/0qLdMZpS7n
— Columbus Blue Jackets (@BlueJacketsNHL) November 12, 2017
Cause let’s be honest we all wanted to see it again.
Stat of the Night
According to https://t.co/futiKpS77R, Jack Johnson is 7-32 in shootouts going back to the 2009-10 season.#CBJ fans may recall his SO game winner against CHI Dec. 20, 2014.*
— Alison (@AlisonL) November 12, 2017
*ALSO in the ninth round
Stats courtesy of Natural Stat Trick and Hockey-Reference.
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