Blue Jackets take the early advantage and ride the hat -trick of Kirill Marchenko to win

Columbus, Ohio – has passed some time since the Jackets Blue Columbus have felt like this. They continued to win enough games to be hung on the playoff race and had some games in which their high ability hung the Gody Goal numbers.

But there have been not many games in recent times when they have scored soon, it has often scored-thanks, in part, to the game of power-and I have seen the last few minutes sprout without a lot of drama or nail bite.

“We needed such a victory,” said the Blue Jackets Dean Label coach. “We need all the victories. Yes, in the end it was a little more relaxed than it was.”

Kirill Marchenko marked his third hat-trick, Adam Fantilli and Sean Monahan scored two goals each and seven players enjoyed multi-punt nights in the 8-4 route of Nashville predators before 15,605 in the Nationwide Arena.

He scored a maximum of the season for the Blue Jackets, who had not won in regulations since March 9 against the New York Rangers. There is another thing, extraordinarily, that the Blue Jackets had not done since that night in Madison Square Garden: tips before.

The defender of the Blue Jackets Zach Werenski has found Marchenko skate opened wide open through the slot only 1:15 in the game. He never has a 1-0-the first advantage in nine games of the Blue Jackets-was so important, so that it reduces stress.

“It was fantastic,” said Fantilli. “I don’t know how many games it has been since we scored first, but it’s a huge part of the game. You don’t have to chase him. Marchy on the way was fantastic, only huge.”

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Marchenko (3-1-4) and Monahan (2-2-4) had both nights with four points. Fantilli (2-1-3) and Kent Johnson (0-3-3) had three-point nights, while Dante Fabbro (1-1-2), Werenski (0-2-2) and Boone Jenner had multi-punt nights while the blue jackets composed 37 shots on the goal.

With his two points, Werenski now has 20-54-74 in the season, linked with Johnny Gaudreau (2022-23) for the fifth points in one season in the history of franchise. His total assistance (54) is the highest fourth in one season. It was a night to flex the muscles.

During the last nine games, the Blue Jackets had obtained an advantage for a total of 23 seconds. This puts a lot of stress on a team, but all this seemed to be relieved on Tuesday.

At the end of the first period, it was 3-1. At the end of the second, it was 7-3, which was sufficient to chase the starting goalkeeper of Nashville JUUSE SAROS. At the end of the game, Evason was sending forward-forward forward and defenders of the lower couple to win the power of power of the jackets.

For weeks now, Label has insisted that the Blue Jackets have played well at the beginning of the games – and there are analyzes that support this, despite not being rewarded for this. Tuesday, he claimed the opposite, that the Blue Jackets – ironically – were rewarded despite now playing well.

(Note of the editor: the coaches are not fun.)

“We talked for a while, and I scolded you guys (in the media) for talking to our players all the time,” said Evason. “We had the results tonight, but the beginning was not good. We were cheating on it. We were giving up the odd men’s joints.

“We were very lucky not to be behind. It was a little upside down.”

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Marchenko scored his second and third goals at 4:12 of the second period and 5:23 of the third, respectively, bringing a shower of hats from the stands. Marchenko, who rarely does anything without bouncing in his passage and smiles, sat on the bench and smiled next to his teammates.

It is only the fourth player Blue Jackets to record three or more tricks, joining Rick Nash (Six), Cam Atkinson (four) and Tyler Wright (three).

“I sit there on the bench (with the hats that fall over them) and it looks like a dream, every time,” said Marchenko. “I really like this moment, because it happens at home. On the road, it doesn’t seem like this.”

The trio of goals from Marchenko pushed him to 31 in the season, becoming the first player of the Blue Jackets to score 30 or more from Atkinson in 2018-19. It is the eighth player in the history of franchise to score 30 goals in one season.

“My linemates do everything (work) for me,” said Marchenko. “I can only shoot on the net and that’s it.

“(One night like this) it gives us a lot of confidence and energy. Everyone has fun right now, but now the game is over and we look at the future and we prepare for the next game.”

The predators had moved to 4-3 in the middle of the second-no, this was not an performance of an excellent goalkeeper at the two ends-Prima that Fantilli had marked an important goal, his second game, after a long round of Columbus in their end.

Fantilli was launched by a ride from Jenner and skied beyond the defense of Nashville for an escape goal to seize 5-3. Before the end of the period, Monahan had scored his second of the game and Fabbro added one against his former club to do it 7-3.

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Both Munihan’s goals were power game goals. If there is any aspect of the Blue Jackets game that could use a push right now, they could be special teams.

The jackets, who had not scored two man-up goals in a game since January 7th, had scored a goal-e allowed four shorts short to short, since mid-March. It was an extraordinary drop after the unit lingered in the upper half of the League for most of the season.

“We hope that this can make us jump into both special teams,” said Evason. “We talked about how better they should be. Tonight, they must be even better to go on.”

The victory allowed the Blue Jackets to skip the Rangers in the standings and go up to the ninth place in the Eastern Conference, two points behind the Montreal Canadiens for the latest Jolly spot. The Canadians returned to beat the Florida Panthers in extraordinary.

One could say by listening to the players of the Blue Jackets, in particular Monahan, that the challenge will be to forget this game quickly. They needed, to be sure, but they must also understand that they probably will not see this ice very open again in the last nine games of the season.

A huge test is waiting for Thursday, when the Colorado avalanche plays nationally.

“We know that it will not be like that for the rest of the path, so take him away,” said Monahan. “We will take the two points, but yes, let’s go on.”

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