The Blue Jackets played the Blackhawks hard, but a few little miscues and two very costly mistakes saw them fail to pick up win #50 for the second night in a row, and unlike yesterday’s contest there will be no loser point to cushion the blow.
A penalty to Brandon Dubinsky in the opening minute and a bit of puck watching on everyone’s part (including Sergei Bobrovsky) gave Artemi Panarin nothing but net to shoot on to open the scoring less than ten seconds into the power play.
The Jackets evened the score thanks to Nick Foligno crashing the net and putting one past Corey Crawford, but on the following shift Marian Hossa got loose and absolutely smoked Bob to give Chicago the lead back.