Last night, the Jackets walked way from Detroit with a 5-3 win against the last place team in the league. On Monday night, the Jackets shut out the first-place team in the league, 3-0.
On Saturday afternoon, the Jackets lost to the now-third-to-last team in the league in an OT bummer. Last Thursday, the Jackets lost to a Penguins team they handily beat less than two weeks before in an OT “embarrassment to the organization.”
I mean, WTF?
Notably, the Jackets have been dealing with the absence of defensemen Zach Werenski in the last few weeks, and the recent absence of Emil Bemstrom, Sonny Milano, Josh Anderson, Ryan Murray, and now Andrew Peeke (who now possesses 1.