COLUMBUS, Ohio \u2014\u00a0Jet Greaves made 26 saves, Mathieu Olivier scored twice and the Columbus Blue Jackets dealt another blow to Florida’s playoff hopes with a 4-2 victory over the Panthers on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
Defenseman Ivan Provorov had a goal and two assists and Boone Jenner also scored to help Columbus win its third straight\u00a0
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Hours after the game, the Blue Jackets started NHL trade deadline day by acquiring winger Conor Garland from Vancouver
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Just after midnight Friday, they sent a third-round pick in the draft this year and a 2028 second-rounder to the Canucks for the soon-to-be 30-year-old<\/p>\n
Two-time defending champion Florida is in danger of becoming the first Cup-winning team to miss the playoffs the following season since Los Angeles in 2014-15. Ten points behind Boston for the final wild-card spot in the East, the Panthers have lost the first four games of a trip that ends Friday night in Detroit.<\/p>\n
Defenseman Ivan Provorov had a goal and two assists and Boone Jenner also scored to help Columbus win its third straight and move within a point of Boston. The Blue Jackets were coming off a back-to-back sweep, beating the Rangers 5-4 in overtime in New York on Monday night and Nashville on Tuesday night to open a four-game homestand.<\/p>\n
Hours after the game, the Blue Jackets started NHL trade deadline day by acquiring winger Conor Garland from Vancouver. Just after midnight Friday, they sent a third-round pick in the draft this year and a 2028 second-rounder to the Canucks for the soon-to-be 30-year-old.<\/p>\n
Defenseman Niko Mikkola and Sam Bennett scored for Florida in a 5:36 span of the third period.<\/p>\n
Gustav Forsling appeared to tie it with 2:55 to go, but Columbus successfully challenged for goaltender interference. Olivier then put it away with an empty-netter with 1:42 left.<\/p>\n
Provorov scored on a power play at 5:08 of the first, firing in a wrist shot from the blue line. Olivier struck on a tip with 9:10 left in the second, and Jenner beat goalie Daniil Tarasov from close range at 1:41 of the third. Jenner returned after missing a game because of a lower-body injury.<\/p>\n
Mikkola scored on a tip at 9:08 of the third, and Bennett pulled the Panthers within one on a power play with 5:16 left.<\/p>\n
Tarasov stopped 23 shots.<\/p>\n
Before the game, the Panthers sent 38-year-old defenseman Jeff Petry to Minnesota for a conditional seventh-round pick in 2026.<\/p>\n
Up next
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Panthers: At Detroit on Friday night.<\/p>\n
Blue Jackets: Host Utah on Saturday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLUMBUS, Ohio \u2014\u00a0Jet Greaves made 26 saves, Mathieu Olivier scored twice and the Columbus Blue Jackets dealt another…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5126],"tags":[1249,2100,1251,897,5,186,1760,240,5303,793,145,5304,5302,40,4,5188,5639,6771,4093,43,1953],"class_list":{"0":"post-488997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-kings","8":"tag-app-sports","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-associated-press","11":"tag-columbus","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-kings","14":"tag-la","15":"tag-la-kings","16":"tag-lakings","17":"tag-los-angeles","18":"tag-los-angeles-kings","19":"tag-losangeles","20":"tag-losangeleskings","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-nhl","23":"tag-ohio","24":"tag-ohio-columbus-blue-jackets","25":"tag-ohio-columbus-top-stories","26":"tag-spectrum-news-staff","27":"tag-sports","28":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116182151558578752","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488997","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=488997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}