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- Columbus Blue Jackets
- Published: Dec. 28, 2025, 9:23 p.m.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Columbus Blue Jackets scored a brace of third-period goals successful conscionable complete a infinitesimal and rallied to hit nan New York Islanders 4-2 connected Sunday for their 2nd consecutive win.
Kirill Marchenko scored his 2nd extremity of nan nighttime pinch 3:19 near successful nan game, conscionable complete a infinitesimal aft Ivan Provorov knotted nan people astatine 2-2. Cole Sillinger added an empty-netter, and Denton Mateychuk and Sean Monahan some had 2 assists. Jet Greaves stopped 24 shots.
Max Shabanov and Bo Horvat scored for New York, and David Rittich made 31 saves for nan Islanders, who seemed to person nan triumph successful manus but alternatively dropped nan first crippled of their two-stop roadworthy travel to extremity 2025.
Marchenko buried a breakaway astatine 8:09 of nan first play to unfastened nan scoring, and Shabanov pulled nan Islanders moreover pinch 2:44 near successful nan play erstwhile a puck deflected disconnected his knee and slid past Greaves.
The 2nd play started successful chaos erstwhile Mat Barzal reacted to a Mason Marchment tripping punishment by taking a two-handed chop to Marchment’s correct foot, resulting successful a awesome punishment and a crippled misconduct ejection. Columbus past grounded to people connected a 3-on-4 powerfulness play pursuing Adam Pelech’s tripping punishment connected Miles Wood.
Horvat gave New York nan lead pinch 6:36 near successful nan 2nd play connected a wrist changeable that marked his first extremity since missing 5 games pinch a lower-body injury.
Columbus fought backmost to necktie nan people connected Provorov’s extremity pinch 4:33 near successful nan 3rd play earlier Marchenko put nan Blue Jackets up and Sillinger sealed nan win.
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-- By Nicole Kraft, The Associated Press
