Columbus Blue Jackets shut out by Vegas Golden Knights in home return
Things are getting a lot tougher for the Blue Jackets, who dropped their second straight game and fourth in their past five Thursday night at Nationwide Arena.
Despite dominating the first period against the Vegas Golden Knights, the Jackets couldn’t get a puck past goalie Adin Hill in a 4-0 loss that sent a sellout crowd of 18,823 home after hearing just one cannon blast to welcome the home team to the ice.
Hill made 27 saves for his fourth shutout of the season and the Golden Knights (39-19-7) built a 3-0 lead through the first two periods on timely goals scored by Nicholas Roy, Brandon Saad and Pavel Dorofeyev. Alex Pietrangelo scored the fourth Vegas goal into an empty net late in the third for insurance, as Blue Jackets goalie Elvis Merzlikins watched from the bench.
The Blue Jackets (31-26-8) still clung to the second wild-card spot in the Eastern Conference after the final horn but failed to put any distance between themselves and a pack of four teams on their heels, all sitting within two points of Columbus just outside the postseason cutoff.
The New York Rangers, who could tie the Blue Jackets at 70 points with a win Thursday night in Minnesota, are one of them. They're also up next to visit Columbus on Saturday in a big Metropolitan Division showdown.
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This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: Blue Jackets shut out by Golden Knights at Nationwide Arena
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