Blue Jacket Can’t Overcome Slow Start Losing to Penguins – Hockey Writer – Columbus Blue Jacket

Columbus Blue Jacket hopes to replicate the Florida Panthers performance Thursday night. Instead, they competed in track and field with the high-powered Pittsburgh penguins and fell on Friday night.

Bokondji Imama scored his first goal on the Penguins, while Bryan Rust, Sidney Crosby and Rickard Rakell scored two points on the top line, speeding up the Penguins’ victory 6-3. Alex Nedeljkovic made 44 saves that night.

The story of this game is that the blue jacket cannot get rid of the early holes.

Game review

In the first stage, I saw the penguins first enter the scoreboard. The pass through the crease arrives at Zach Werenski. As he tried to make the game, Evgeni Malkin brushed the puck from behind to open the score. After the game, Werenski admitted that he had more time than he did. The rest of the night is the game to catch up.

The Penguin extends to 2-0 due to Noel Acciari. Blake Lizotte won a fight on the wall and opened the net. Hockey In front of Elvis Merzlikins, Acciari found the rebound to double the lead.

Just 16 seconds later, the Blue Jacket scored a huge goal from Captain Boone Jenner. For the captain, this was his first goal in nearly a year. Given that he had to come back from it, there were extra zippers in his celebrations.

The motivation for this goal won’t last long. Just 46 seconds later, Rakell completed a beautiful pass game and started a turnover. The first stage is 3-1. Nedeljkovic stopped 12 of the 13 players, lifting the Penguins to an early lead.

Justin Danforth opened the second goal with a goal from defensive player Connor Timmins. In a short period of time, this seemed to give motivation to the blue jacket.

But midway through the second standoff, Imama released a Rocket that broke away from the top of the Nets and set off for his first Penguin goal. This also makes the score 4-2. Earlier in the game, he lost his gloves with Mathieu Olivier.

Sidney Crosby was able to extend the Penguins’ lead to a 5-2 pass from Matt Grzelcyk. Head coach Dean Evason Post said the blue jacket looks tired physically and mentally. He also thinks the team is trying to cheat.

“Tonight, we force this issue,” Evesson said. “We cheated and fell into the wrong side, the hockey side lost the human side, so it ended up in our net. It’s not the way you play the game. It’s not the way we play the game.”

The Blue Jackets hit 5-3 in a great performance with Kent Johnson earlier this third time. But this is as close as possible. Rust converts empty nets to 6-3.

The blue jacket will be on vacation on Saturday and then return to practice on Sunday. They will travel to New York to face islanders on Monday night. The Penguins will now head to Florida for the Panthers Sunday.