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Plus checking in on Miles Wood after an eye injury, chatting with Denton Mateychuk and a rare stat from the overtime win in Pittsburgh.
Get ready for a week of feast or famine when it comes to NHL action. Tuesday's Frozen Frenzy headlines the schedule with 16 games -- with one starting every 15 minutes beginning at 6 p.m. ET -- while Thursday and Saturday also deliver heavy slates with 11 and 13 games, respectively.
There was Dmitri Voronkov, whose sixth career two-goal game was a huge part of the victory. And then there was Yegor Chinakhov, who was a healthy scratch to start the season but has built his game over the past few contests and put the Blue Jackets ahead in the third period with his first tally of the season.
The Columbus Blue Jackets (4-4-0) are hitting the road to KeyBank Center on Tuesday where they will take on the Buffalo Sabres (4-4-1). The moneyline on this game has the Blue Jackets at +106 and the Sabres are opening at -128. The betting total is set at 6.5.
A tight game for two periods turned into a 5-1 rout for the Washington Capitals over the Columbus Blue Jackets.
COLUMBUS -- Alex Ovechkin scored his 899th NHL goal, and the Washington Capitals defeated the Columbus Blue Jackets 5-1 at Nationwide Arena on Friday. Ovechkin scored at 1:36 of the third period to make it 2-0. He can become the first player to reach 900 goals when the Capitals host the Ottawa Senators on Saturday.
Columbus Blue Jackets forward Miles Wood nearing a return from scary injury that initially made him worried he'd lost an eye.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — It was a story told in two acts: the first frustrating; the second infuriating. Columbus Blue Jackets coach Dean Evason fought hard to measure his words after a 5-1 loss on Friday to the Washington Capitals, but he was only partly successful.