After losing 9-4 to Buffalo on Wednesday, the Blue Jackets rebounded to win 3-1 over Calgary on Friday.
Wednesday night, the Blue Jackets were embarrassed in a. Coach Brad Larsen said Friday morning that he broke down the video from the game immediately after, as he sought answers to the many problems that plagued his team in the loss.
The Flames pushed back in the third, and there were nervy moments as the Blue Jackets scrambled to keep the puck out of their net. Calgary broke up the shutout with 2:34 left to play, on a goal from Michael Stone with a six-on-five advantage, but Sean Kuraly scored an empty-net goal with just 23 seconds left to ice the win.Chemistry between Patrik Laine, Jack Roslovic helps Blue Jackets to win
Larsen first combined Laine, Roslovic and Chinakhov midway through Wednesday's game, and Laine went on to score two goals. The trio stayed together Friday and saw the heaviest usage of any of the Blue Jackets' lines —In those minutes, they outshot the Flames 6-3 and generated three high danger scoring chances while allowing zero to Calgary.
"If we can balance out scoring, more than loading up one line, it really helps us," Larsen said."It’s not a punishment. It’s going, ‘OK, can we balance this out a bit?’ ... You see those three guys skating, they all can move really well. You kind of cross your fingers that maybe you’ve got something there. We’ll see. Things change, but I really like what that line brought us tonight.
"It’s not what you want because you don’t feel good," Merzlikins said."Especially in warmups, Korpi takes always everything, so I had no shots. It’s hard to get in. My team did a really good job. They helped me out tonight. They let me get in the game." It wasn't the ideal way he would've wanted to get back on the ice, with essentially no time to prepare, but he settled into the game quickly and was important for the Blue Jackets in stopping their losing streak.
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