Jackets drop road trip finale, blanked by the Panthers 3-0

Photo by Eliot J. Schechter/NHLI via Getty ImagesIt was said that the Blue Jackets would know where they stood in terms of playoff odds and trade deadline strategy after this pivotal road trip. Well, I’d say it’s pretty clear now. On a beautiful Easter Sunday, the Jackets failed to resurrect their season and dropped a 3-0 snoozer to the Florida Panthers to wrap up their six game road trip in which they went a miserable 1-5-0.

From the start of this one, it was clear that yet again, the Jackets would struggle to get anything going. The team would play a solid “road period” considering they exited it tied. Florida had the better of the chances in the first, most of them involving Panthers’…