COLUMBUS, Ohio \u2014\u00a0Kirill Marchenko and Kent Johnson each had a goal and an assist, leading the Columbus Blue Jackets over the skidding Vancouver Canucks 4-1 on Thursday night for their third straight win.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
Charlie Coyle scored for the third time in three games and Zach Werenski added his team-leading 18th goal
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Brock Boeser scored and Kevin Lankinen made 32 saves for Vancouver
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Blue Jackets visit the Penguins on Saturday<\/p>\n
Charlie Coyle scored for the third time in three games and Zach Werenski added his team-leading 18th goal, the most this season by an NHL defenseman. Elvis Merzlikins stopped 30 shots for his first win since Dec. 4.<\/p>\n
Brock Boeser scored and Kevin Lankinen made 32 saves for Vancouver, which has lost nine straight (0-7-2) and 11 of 12 (1-9-2). The Canucks went 0-6 on their road trip and remain in the NHL cellar.<\/p>\n
Coyle faked out Lankinen on a power play to put Columbus up 1-0 with 2:35 left in the first period. Marchenko doubled the lead at 5:49 of the second, scoring off a faceoff.<\/p>\n
Werenski kept Columbus perfect with the man advantage, scoring at the period\u2019s halfway mark.<\/p>\n
The Canucks found their own power-play success, with Boeser beating Merzlikins with 5:51 left in the second, but Johnson restored the three-goal lead with 9:47 left in the third. Boone Jenner\u2019s assist was the 200th of his career.<\/p>\n
Up next\n<\/p>\n
Canucks: Host the Edmonton Oilers on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Blue Jackets: Visit the Pittsburgh Penguins on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLUMBUS, Ohio \u2014\u00a0Kirill Marchenko and Kent Johnson each had a goal and an assist, leading the Columbus Blue…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5108],"tags":[1249,2100,1251,3644,5180,897,230,5179,5,40,4,5188,5639,6771,4093,43,1953],"class_list":{"0":"post-411490","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-columbus-blue-jackets","8":"tag-app-sports","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-associated-press","11":"tag-blue-jackets","12":"tag-bluejackets","13":"tag-columbus","14":"tag-columbus-blue-jackets","15":"tag-columbusbluejackets","16":"tag-hockey","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-nhl","19":"tag-ohio","20":"tag-ohio-columbus-blue-jackets","21":"tag-ohio-columbus-top-stories","22":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","23":"tag-sports","24":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115906869060013608","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}