COLUMBUS, Ohio \u2014\u00a0\u00a0Nikolaj Ehlers scored the go-ahead goal with 7:18 remaining and the Carolina Hurricanes reached the 100-point mark for the fifth time in franchise history, defeating the reeling Columbus Blue Jackets 5-2 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
Kirill Marchenko and Adam Fantilli scored for Columbus
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The only saving grace for the Blue Jackets is that they still have the East\u2019s second wild-card spot at 88 points
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Jet Greaves made 26 saves<\/p>\n
Ehlers added two assists as the Hurricanes remained tied with Buffalo for the top seed in the Eastern Conference.<\/p>\n
Carolina\u2019s Andrei Svechnikov had a power-play goal and an assist. Shayne Gostisbehere and Logan Stankoven also scored with the man advantage, and Jordan Martinook added a short-handed, empty-net goal. Brandon Bussi stopped 23 shots.<\/p>\n
The Hurricanes have scored at least one power-play goal in seven consecutive games for the first time since they had an eight-game run from Dec. 23, 2023 to Jan. 11, 2024. They have gone 11 of 23 during their current run, including 3 of 5 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
Kirill Marchenko and Adam Fantilli scored for Columbus, which has dropped four straight and is 1-4-1 in its last six. Jet Greaves made 26 saves.<\/p>\n
The only saving grace for the Blue Jackets is that they still have the East\u2019s second wild-card spot at 88 points. Ottawa, Detroit and Philadelphia \u2014 which are two points behind Columbus \u2014 all lost Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
Columbus fell behind 2-0 but evened it 2:07 into the third on Fantilli’s one-timer at a tough angle in the right faceoff circle.<\/p>\n
Ehlers and Carolina regained the lead at 12:42 when his slap shot from the top of the zone made its way through traffic and past Greaves. Columbus challenged thinking there was goalie interference but the goal was upheld.<\/p>\n
Carolina went on the power play and went back up by two goals on Svechnikov’s one-timer from the right faceoff circle.<\/p>\n
Up next\n<\/p>\n
The teams meet Thursday in Raleigh, North Carolina, for the fourth and final time in the regular season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLUMBUS, Ohio \u2014\u00a0\u00a0Nikolaj Ehlers scored the go-ahead goal with 7:18 remaining and the Carolina Hurricanes reached the 100-point…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390657,"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-534714","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\/116329623413451433","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534714","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=534714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}