A Blue Jackets road trip that started with renewed confidence amid a terrible season ended with another hard lesson learned in loss to Kraken
SEATTLE ― It was a road trip that started with the Blue Jackets showing some moxie in a couple of tough matchups that started withThey pushed the Calgary Flames to overtime last Monday at Scotiabank Saddledome, stunned Connor McDavid and the Edmonton Oilers two days later in OT at Rogers Place and earned an opportunity to roll that success into a weekend back-to-back at the Vancouver Canucks and Seattle Kraken.and Kraken for similar reasons to why they're last in the NHL at 33 points.
Seattle stayed patient with its neutral zone system and forced the Blue Jackets to pick their way through a couple strategic setups. It worked most of the game for the Kraken , who forced goalie Elvis Merzlikins to come up with a number of difficult stops to keep the game from becoming a blowout. Kent Johnson scored his 10th goal of the season in the second, cutting it to 2-1, but it wasn't enough. Likewise with Merzlikins, who made 31 saves and kept it close., it wasn’t the effort needed to match a good Kraken team that emptied its energy reserves going into an extended bye week/All-Star break. The Blue Jackets have one more game Tuesday against the Washington Capitals before their break arrives and they’ve still got a lot of work ahead.
The first two to start their careers with such a goal-heavy presence were Joe Malone for the Montreal Canadiens in 1918, starting with a 16-0-16 scoring line, and John McKinnon in 1927 for the Canadiens and former Pittsburgh Pirates (13-0-13. Marchenko’s 13 goals in his first 26 games also set a Blue Jackets all-time record for goals in that many games to start a player’s career.
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