Despite an injury list that's piling up, the Blue Jackets are on a three-game point streak. Here's how they beat the Flyers on Tuesday in overtime.
Blue Jackets' fourth line of Sean Kuraly, Mathieu Olivier and Eric Robinson makes impact, the fourth line, which was reunited in Sean Kuraly's return from an upper body injury, was the Jackets' second-best line by expected goals percentage. The third line, with Liam Foudy, Brendan Gaunce and Kent Johnson, led the way at 66.41%, but Kuraly, Mathieu Olivier and Eric Robinson were close behind at 62.56%.
"They were real important for me tonight, because I was able to kind of flip some matchups and some D-zone assignments," Larsen said."Especially in the middle part there where it got a little rocky, I was able to use them. They were a real key line for me tonight. You get contributions like that, that’s huge offensively. I’m not relying on them offensively, but you get that, that’s big. It was great to have back, in a lot of aspects, but their line was excellent.
"For whatever reason, my first couple years here, we got hit pretty hard too, and it always seems to pull guys up," Robinson said."The guys you call up have a lot of energy and we feed off that. Whatever it is, we’ve seemed to play some better hockey as of late, for sure." "We’ve got five out of six points here in three games," Larsen said."It’s a good stretch wit the amount of injuries that have piled up. They’re playing hard. We lost ourselves a bit in the second period there, especially the last 10, 12 minutes. But we gathered ourselves in the third. We only had them at, I think, three chances, and they scored on two. The rest of it was pretty solid. Guys are giving it. They’re playing hard.
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