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COLUMBUS Juuse Saros Jersey , Ohio (AP) — goaltender out sick, the Columbus Blue Jackets limped into the first intermission down two goals to the streaking Florida Panthers on Thursday night.Then goalie Joonas Korpisalo found his rhythm, five Columbus players had a goal and an assist and the Blue Jackets rallied for a 7-3 rout that snapped Florida’s five-game winning streak.“We’re never out of the fight, whether we’re down by two goals, three goals,” said forward Cam Atkinson, among the players with a two-point night. “We’re a team that’s a resilient group, and we can crawl back into it. And sure enough, once we got one Kyle Turris Jersey , the flood gates opened up for us.”Korpisalo, starting in place of Sergei Bobrovsky, stopped 38 shots. Along with Bobrovsky, forwards Artemi Panarin and Riley Nash were sidelined with an unspecified illness.Markus Hannikainen broke a 3-3 tie for Columbus early in the third when he spun around and swept the puck past goalie Roberto Luongo from the edge of the blue paint. Anthony Duclair and Josh Anderson followed with breakaway scores, and Boone Jenner added an empty-netter to seal it.Columbus picked up a point in its sixth straight game (4-0-2) and is in first place in the Metropolitan Division. Its goals came from seven players.“Good first period then we let off the gas,” said Florida forward Mike Hoffman, who broke a franchise record with a point in his 14th straight game, a primary assist on a first-period goal by Aaron Ekblad . “They came back in the second and got a couple on us, and we were never able to recover from that point. They kept pace in the third period and really sealed the deal.”Duclair Youth Matt Irwin Jersey , Jenner, Brandon Dubinsky and Pierre Luc-Dubois also had a goal and assist each for Columbus (11-6-2).Luongo had 30 saves, and Nick Bjugstad and Keith Yandle also scored for the Panthers (7-6-3).Bjugstad got credit for the opening goal 1:44 into the game when he deflected in a long shot from the left point by Mike Matheson. Ekblad tapped in the second goal five minutes later on a power play.Atkinson made it 2-1 with a short-handed goal 28 seconds into the period , taking a pass from Alexander Wennberg on a rush after a Florida turnover. Dubinsky evened the score a few minutes later when batted a shot between Luongo’s pads.Dubois gave Columbus the lead after Luongo ventured out of the crease to block a breakaway shot by Duclair. Dubois swooped in and knocked the puck in the net before the goalie could recover.Yandle tied the game again later in the second on a power play when he went between Korpisalo’s pads with a shot from the high slot before Columbus cracked it open in the third.“We had a lot of guys that just had off games,” Florida coach Bob Boughner said. “I’m going to chalk it up to that. I’m not going to spend a lot of time dissecting this game.”NOTES: Columbus coach John Tortorella also was feeling sick and didn’t take questions from the reporters after the game. … Dubois has seven goals and four assists in his past 10 games. … Florida has scored at least one power-play goal in each of its last seven games. … F Zac Dalpe and G Jean-Francois Berube were called up from the Blue Jackets’ AHL affiliate in Cleveland because of Panarin and Bobrovsky being sidelined by illness. F Riley Nash also was out with an illness … Columbus also this week sent D Adam Clendening down to Cleveland and brought up D Gabriel Carlsson.UP NEXTFlorida: At New York Rangers on Saturday.Columbus: At Carolina on Saturday. DENVER (AP) — A resurgent power play figured prominently in the Chicago Blackhawks‘ latest win.Patrick Kane scored his second goal of the game 41 seconds into overtime and the Blackhawks beat the Colorado Avalanche 3-2 on Saturday night.The Blackhawks were on a power play when Kane knocked in the decisive shot from the slot off a feed from Jonathan Toews for Chicago’s fifth victory in six games. Two have come at the expense of the Avalanche, who lost their fourth straight.“Some great plays by some of my teammates and I think the power play is starting to feel it a little bit,” Kane said. “Even though we didn’t score on that 5-on-3 tonight, it’s been a lot better the past eight to 10 games, so that always helps.”Kane Womens Mattias Ekholm Jersey , who leads the Blackhawks with 22 goals, extended his point streak to seven games. He has seven goals during that stretch — three of them game-winners — and six assists.Alex Debrincat also scored for Chicago on a power play. The Blackhawks have converted seven of their last 20 chances.Nathan MacKinnon and Mikko Rantanen had the goals for Colorado, which hurt itself with penalties.“You take eight minutes of penalties in the last seven minutes of the game — tough to win,” coach Jared Bednar said. “I didn’t like those penalties by our team. We hit a guy from behind, you kind of give him a shot in the (defensive) zone, it’s a penalty. We get a guy high in the last minute of the game, an accidental high stick when we’re already killing a penalty. They’re not good.”Chicago capitalized just enough to come out on top.“Our first period was really good,” coach Jeremy Colliton said. “I loved a lot of things that we did. The second period, we needed to make a few more plays with the puck. We invited their pressure and we got into some trouble. Third period P.K Subban Jersey , I thought we were good. Would’ve loved to score on the 5-on-3, but we got the extra point and a big win.”The Avalanche evened it at 2 with an extra attacker on the ice because of a delayed penalty. MacKinnon, who had just missed a couple of attempts in close, jumped on the ice from the bench after the Avalanche pulled their goalie and let fly a shot from the point that rocketed into the net through traffic at 18:21 of the second period.Down 2-0, the Avalanche got on the board at 17:04 of the first on Rantanen’s power-play goal that got past Collin Delia, who nonetheless made 30 saves and is 3-0 this season. Tyson Barrie set it up with his 208th career assist, most by a defenseman in team history.The Blackhawks struck twice in the first 10 minutes, starting with a power-play score by Debrincat, who beat goalie Semyon Varlamov with a shot from inside the left circle after taking a cross-ice pass from Kane.Kane also drew the slashing penalty that put Alexander Kerfoot in the box Authentic Pekka Rinne Jersey Kids , and the Blackhawks soon converted.Kane, who had a hat trick in a 5-2 win over Minnesota on Thursday, made it 2-0 at 9:38 of the first when he one-timed a shot from the right circle after getting a pass from Artem Anisimov.NOTES: Blackhawks C Marcus Kruger has been activated from injured reserve after missing four games with a concussion. … Avalanche D Nikita Zadarov missed his fourth straight game with a lower-body injury. … MacKinnon was selected Central Division captain for the NHL All-Star game on Jan. 26 in San Jose, California. … Chicago improved to 9-4-2 against fellow Central Division teams this season.UP NEXTBlackhawks: Face the Boston Bruins in the Winter Classic at Notre Dame Stadium on Tuesday.Avalanche: Continue a four-game homestand Monday night against the Los Angeles Kings.
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