COLUMBUS, Ohio \u2014\u00a0Adam Fantilli scored twice, including an empty-net goal with 2:54 remaining, and the Columbus Blue Jackets beat the New York Rangers 6-3 on Thursday night, keeping alive hopes for their first playoff berth since the 2019-20 season.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
Columbus extended its point streak to 11 games and takes over third-place in the Metropolitan Division thanks to the New York Islanders\u2019 3-2 loss in Ottawa
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Zach Werenski\u2019s three assists give him 52 on the season and his second career 70-plus point season, tying him with Artemi Panarin for the most in team history
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Boone Jenner had a goal and an assist, and Isac Lundestrom, Conor Garland and Damon Severson also scored<\/p>\n
Columbus extended its point streak to 11 games and takes over third-place in the Metropolitan Division thanks to the New York Islanders\u2019 3-2 loss in Ottawa.<\/p>\n
Boone Jenner had a goal and an assist, and Isac Lundestrom, Conor Garland and Damon Severson also scored. Zach Werenski\u2019s three assists give him 52 on the season and his second career 70-plus point season, tying him with Artemi Panarin for the most in team history. Jet Greaves made 22 saves for Columbus, which has won three straight.<\/p>\n
Mika Zibanejad and Alexis Lafreniere each had a goal and an assist, and Vincent Trocheck also scored for New York, which had its two-game road win streak snapped. Igor Shesterkin finished with 31 saves.<\/p>\n
Trocheck opened the scoring with a short-handed goal at 5:41 of the first period, but Lundestrom tied it late in the period. Garland gave Columbus a 2-1 lead with 59 seconds remaining when his centering attempt deflected in off a defender.<\/p>\n
Zibanejad tied it 2-2 at 4:44 of the second period, but Jenner answered at 7:04, scoring off his own rebound. Fantilli added a power-play goal to make it 4-2.<\/p>\n
Lafreniere pulled the Rangers within one with a power-play goal 50 seconds into the third \u2014 New York\u2019s ninth goal with a man advantage in its last nine games \u2014 before Severson restored Columbus\u2019 two-goal lead midway through the period.<\/p>\n
Up next\n<\/p>\n
Rangers: Host Winnipeg on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Blue Jackets: Host Seattle on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLUMBUS, Ohio \u2014\u00a0Adam Fantilli scored twice, including an empty-net goal with 2:54 remaining, and the Columbus Blue Jackets…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5114],"tags":[1249,2100,1251,191,897,5,40,4,5188,5639,6771,4093,43,1953,190,109,5222],"class_list":["post-513010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-washington-capitals","tag-app-sports","tag-app-top-stories","tag-associated-press","tag-capitals","tag-columbus","tag-hockey","tag-news","tag-nhl","tag-ohio","tag-ohio-columbus-blue-jackets","tag-ohio-columbus-top-stories","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-sports","tag-top-stories","tag-washington","tag-washington-capitals","tag-washingtoncapitals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116261132955817753","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513010","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=513010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}