Blue Jackets beat Red Wings in overtime

Seth Jones took a drop pass from Brandon Dubinsky and wired a high slap shot past Petr Mrazek 3:22 into overtime, lifting the Columbus Blue Jackets to a 3-2 victory over the host Detroit Red Wings on Tuesday night.

Dubinsky and Cam Atkinson also scored for the Blue Jackets, who had dropped two in a row and four of five. Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 24 shots.

The win followed a 5-1 thumping from the New Jersey Devils on Saturday. The Blue Jackets haven’t lost three straight games this season.

“It is a battle of attrition at this point of the schedule, and these guys are starting to understand how tough it is going to be,” Columbus coach John Tortorella said. “It is easy to play when you are out of…