Blue Jackets, Elvis Merzlikins, get shutout against Jets
Gregory Hofman 得点する／非難する／２０d the game-winning goal in the first period and Elvis Merzlikins collected his first shutout of the season to give the host Columbus Blue Jackets a 3-0 勝利，勝つ over the Winnipeg Jets on Wednesday.
Zach Werenski and Andrew Peeke also 得点する／非難する／２０d for the Blue Jackets, who have won four of five games. Merzlikins made 36 saves for his eighth career shutout.
Connor Hellebuyck made 29 saves for the Jets, who have lost a season-worst four straight games.
Hofmann gave the Blue Jackets first 血 with 4:51 remaining in the first period. Max Domi created a turnover inside his own zone and created a two-on-one 急ぐ. Domi threaded a cross-ice pass that Hofmann quickly 変えるd for his first goal in 10 games and second of the season.
Werenski's 力／強力にする-play goal 6:49 into the third period 二塁打d the Blue Jackets' lead. After he was fed a pass at the 最高の，を越す of the 権利 circle, Werenski stepped 負かす／撃墜する to the 直面する-off dot and wired a 最高の，を越す-corner wrist 発射 that （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 Connor Hellebuyck's glove 手渡す for his fifth goal of the （選挙などの）運動をする.
Peeke 得点する／非難する／２０d an empty-逮捕する goal, his first 一致する of the season, with 3:33 remaining to 一連の会議、交渉／完成する out the 得点する／非難する／２０ing.
にもかかわらず its 適切な時期s, the Jets couldn't find a goal. A big part of the problem is Winnipeg's struggling 力／強力にする play, which failed to 変える its four advantages. The Jets have managed just one goal with 22 力／強力にする play chances over the last nine games. The closest they （機の）カム was when Yegor Chinakov rang a 発射 off the crossbar during the third period.
Merzlikins stood tall the 残り／休憩（する） of the way, too. Merzlikins made clutch saves on Pierre-Luc Dubois' 適切な時期 off the 急ぐ 早期に in the second period, the struggling Blake Wheeler late in the middle でっちあげる，人を罪に陥れる and 特に against Jansen Harkins late in the 衝突／不一致.
--Field Level マスコミ
