The question going into tonight’s game was if the Blue Jackets could keep it going - and the Oilers were confident that the answer would be ‘no.’ There was a great deal of talk from the Edmonton locker room that they wanted to be the team who ended the Jackets’ remarkable streak.
The Blue Jackets weren’t in the mood to entertain that possibility.
Attacking from the drop of the puck, Columbus put pressure on Cam Talbot, and the Oilers frequently found themselves bottled in their own zone, the depleted Edmonton defense attempting to block shots and break up passing lanes where possible, but still giving the Columbus offense more than a few looks at the net, while Sergei Bobrovsky was equal to the few chances the Oilers generated in the early going.