A terrible start quickly turned into one of the most dominant performances of the season, as the Carolina Hurricanes routed the Columbus Blue Jackets last night by a margin of 7-3.
It simply wouldn’t be a Hurricanes/Blue Jackets game without chaos, right? A couple of offsides challenges, a goalie switch, and six unanswered goals were the story of this game.
The game started terribly for the Canes. Columbus’ Cam Atkinson scored just 26 seconds after the opening faceoff on a nice play with a bit of fancy stick work from Jack Roslovic. Then the Jackets scored again just five minutes later and the Hurricanes found themselves down two goals early.
What followed was a great effort by Carolina and what looked like their first goal from Teuvo Teravainen to bring them within one, but the theme of offsides challenges continued. The goal was called back, and the Canes seemed deflated.
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From this point onward, the Canes slowly crawled their way back through the first period, losing 3-2 at the first intermission, with goals from Sebastian Aho and Jordan Staal.
I don’t know what Rod Brind’Amour said in the locker room in the first intermission, but the Carolina Hurricanes looked like they were shot out of a cannon (wink) from the second period to the conclusion of this game. Carolina scored five more goals and blanked Columbus with one of the most impressive performances I have seen out of them in a long time.
There is a ton to take away from this game, so let’s get into it.