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Blue Jackets skate past Rangers into third place in division

Cam Atkinson and Alexander Wennberg each scored twice and the Columbus Blue Jackets jumped past the Rangers into third place in the tight Metropolitan Division with a 5-2 win at Madison Square Garden on Sunday.

The Blueshirts, who were playing their fourth game in six nights and had played three consecutive games in either overtime or a shootout, lost much of their speed and structure against the Blue Jackets, who had torched the Islanders on Saturday, 7-0, and slid into the first wild-card spot in the East.

At 40-20-2, the Rangers are one point behind Columbus, which won three of the five games between the teams this season.