![](Oct 27, 2017 COLUMBUS, Ohio Josh Anderson scored 2:38 into overtime and the Columbus Blue Jackets" data-canon="Columbus Blue Jackets" data-type="SPORTS_OBJECT_TEAM" data-league-abbreviation="NHL" data-team-abbreviation="CLB">Columbus Blue Jackets rallied to beat the Winnipeg Jets" data-canon="Winnipeg Jets" data-type="SPORTS_OBJECT_TEAM" data-league-abbreviation="NHL" data-team-abbreviation="WPG">Winnipeg Jets 2-1 on Friday night. Anderson beat backup goalie Steve Mason with a snap shot from the slot to get his third goal of the season and cap the comeback victory. Cam Atkinson scored for Columbus midway through the third period to tie it. The winner by Anderson came shortly after Blue Jackets goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky blocked and fell on a point-blank shot from Blake Wheeler. Bobrovsky made 29 saves. Mason, who played in Columbus for the first five seasons of his career, stopped 35 shots as Winnipeg lost for the second straight night. The Jets fell to Pittsburgh 2-1 in OT on Thursday. Winnipeg's Brandon Tanev scored 4:52 into the first period. Bobrovsky stopped Tanev's initial wrist shot but lost track of the puck, which trickled between his legs and behind him into the blue paint. Tanev spied it, charged in and netted a backhander for his second goal of the season and just the fourth of his career. Atkinson tied it 10:23 into the third when he backhanded a tumbling puck past Mason from the slot for his fourth goal. Winnipeg failed to score on six power plays. Columbus looked better on their four, but also didn't score. The Blue Jackets (7-3-0) completed the best 10-game start in franchise history. Their best start since entering the NHL in 2000 was in 2007-08, when they began the season 6-3-1. NOTES: Columbus has won all three of its overtime games this season. ... Anderson skated on the first line with Nick Foligno and Artemi Panarin. He moved up from the third line. ... Columbus plays the third of 17 back-to-back sets this weekend. ... Winnipeg scratched D Tucker Poolman, D Ben Chiarot and F Joel Armia, who suffered an undisclosed injury and was replaced by Marko Dano. ... D Scott Harrington and F Markus Hanninkainen were scratched for Columbus. UP NEXT:Winnipeg: Hosts Pittsburgh on Sunday night. Columbus: Plays at St. Louis on Saturday night.--More NHL hockey at https://apnews.com/tag/NHLhockey---Follow Mitch Stacy at http://twitter.com/mitchstacy)
Time: 7:00 PM EDT Venue: Nationwide Arena, Columbus, Ohio, 43215 COLUMBUS, Ohio -- For the second time in three days, the Columbus Blue Jackets" data-canon="Columbus Blue Jackets" data-type="SPORTS_OBJECT_TEAM" data-league-abbreviation="NHL" data-team-abbreviation="CLB">Columbus Blue Jackets face a team playing the second night of a back-to-back on the road. The Winnipeg Jets" data-canon="Winnipeg Jets" data-type="SPORTS_OBJECT_TEAM" data-league-abbreviation="NHL" data-team-abbreviation="WPG">Winnipeg Jets visit Nationwide Arena on Friday night after a hard-fought, 2-1 overtime loss to the Penguins in Pittsburgh. Coming off a five-day break, the Jets played the Penguins to a stalemate Thursday before a turnover led to Phil Kessel's winning goal 67 seconds into the extra period." Not a bad way to start the road trip," Winnipeg coach Paul Maurice said. "We've to go into Columbus and make amends for our last game and play a quicker game and keep going." In Winnipeg's matchup against Columbus two weeks ago, the Blue Jackets played one of their better games during the first month of the season, getting goals from five players in a 5-2 road victory that ran their winning streak to four games." The Columbus game was eye-opening," Jets captain Blake Wheeler said. "They play a fast game, and we were sluggish." The Jackets came back home after that for a four-game homestand and lost the first two before handling the Buffalo Sabres 5-1 on Wednesday night. The Sabres had played at home the previous night before coming to Columbus. Although the Blue Jackets (6-3-0) are off to their best start in franchise history, coach John Tortorella is tinkering with the forward lines. He was unhappy with the chemistry early in the Wednesday game, and he shuffled the lines several times in an attempt to find suitable pairings. Tortorella said he thinks he found several combinations that worked well together, including a top three of Nick Foligno, Josh Anderson and Artemi Panarin. Foligno and Anderson scored against the Sabres. But nothing apparently is set in stone." I thought when we changed the lines, it changed our game," Tortorella said. "As always, I'm going to watch it and try to stay with it, but I'm never going to be a coach to just sit there and watch us die on the vine with it either." One of the moves involved taking the alternate captain status from veteran center Brandon Dubinsky and giving it to defenseman Jack Johnson. With Dubinsky off to a slow start (no goals and only two assists in nine games), Tortorella made the move in an attempt to help Dubinsky focus on his play on the ice. Dubinsky is on the second line with Boone Jenner and Cam Atkinson." I mean, listen, I'm human. Obviously, it hurts a little bit to have that role taken away," Dubinsky said. "I mean, for me to just say I don't really care would be a complete lie, and you guys know me better than that." Yeah, it was a tough conversation, without a doubt. But again, I owe it to my teammates to be who I am, the player this team needs me to be. So I'm not going to let that affect me." The Jets (4-3-1) were not happy with the result against the Penguins but were encouraged by the effort." We go to play another great team in Columbus," said Winnipeg left winger Matt Hendricks, who made his debut after sitting out the first seven games of the season with a lower-body injury. "If we come out with the same mentality and the same detailed game tomorrow night, I think we're going to have some success." Winnipeg goalie Connor Hellebuyck had a big game Thursday, stopping 34 shots, but it is uncertain who will start in the net against the Blue Jackets. Backup Steve Mason hasn't started since the last game against Columbus." We battled hard," Wheeler said after the Thursday defeat. "The penalty kill was huge tonight, and (Hellebuyck) was awesome. There are lots of positives to draw on going into tomorrow." Sergei Bobrovsky is expected to start in goal for Blue Jackets, who have a back-to-back of their own with a game at St. Louis on Saturday night.
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