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Another Night To Forget For The Blue Jackets
by Paul on 11/24/09 at 06:57 AM ET
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from Tom Reed of the Columbus Dispatch,
“The game was eerily similar to the Detroit game,” coach Ken Hitchcock said of a 9-1 loss Nov. 11. “We were light on the puck. Our top players weren’t very good. You’re just not going to win that way.
“We got beat on loose-puck battles. They were a desperate, hungry team, and we didn’t answer the bell.”
Like first-time tourists to the Big Apple, the Jackets got caught standing around, looking at the sights. The Rangers got behind their defense and outworked them along the wall, especially off the end boards.
Even in the Red Wings debacle, the Blue Jackets didn’t come close to allowing seven straight goals as they did last night in a 21-minute, 18-second stretch. That included allowing a franchise-record three goals within 71 seconds of each other in the second period.
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