A night after defeating the Red Wings in Detroit, the Jackets were back home to face the Metropolitan Division rival New York Islanders.
The Jackets looked tired and slow to start the game, and things weren’t helped when the Islanders opened the scoring with a strange goal. As Sam Gagner attempted to clear the puck out of his zone with a backhand, the puck deflected off the stick of Josh Bailey and went high in the air toward Columbus starter Sergei Bobrovsky. Bob misplayed the puck, perhaps due to Brock Nelson waving at it as it went through the air.