Columbus Blue Jackets Vs. Anaheim Ducks Live Recap (11-13-09)

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Anaheim Ducks at Columbus Blue Jackets (11-13-09) Live Recap.

20:00 Columbus needs to come out firing to at least partially avenge embarrassing 9-1 defeat here at home two nights ago. 

18:57 Good first save by Mathieu Garon, who's starting in net in replacement of Steve Mason's horrid performance in the Detroit game.  Columbus is going to need a good performance out of him tonight.

16:31 Anaheim getting first power play of the game already.  Chimera is off for hooking.  The penalty troubles seem to be continuing for the Blue Jackets.  Thankfully their penalty kill is competent.

14:30 The Jackets manage to kill off Anaheim's first power play, despite Anaheim keeping the puck in the zone almost the entire time.  Still, a penalty kill is a penalty kill.

14:13 Jason Chimera right back in the box again, twenty seconds after he got out the first time, and this time it's for crosschecking.  The boys in blue are not off to a good start right now.

13:22 Rick Nash gets the crowd into it with a big hit, one of the first hits of the game for Columbus.  I would have expected them to come out with some physicality in an attempt to regain some dignity following their drubbing in Detroit, but they're playing rather passively here in the early going. 

12:05 Goal for Anaheim.  Bobby Ryan scores after a Columbus forward attempted to steal a pass and missed, giving Anaheim numbers up the ice.  Ryan, who was wide open on the right wing, took a cross ice feed from Ryan Getzlaf and buried the puck in the back of the net.  Garon really stood little chance in making the save.  Anaheim 1, Columbus 0.

9:30 Jackets are being outshot 10-2 at this point, though thankfully Garon has been sharp in net.

8:49 High-stick on Michael Blunden by Evgeny Artyukhin that somehow went unnoticed.  Seemed rather blatant from my point-of-view, with Blunden getting clipped and immediately going down, but no call made by either referee.

7:45 Jackets not able to keep puck in offensive zone for any extended period of time.  Anaheim controlling the play.  Lots of turnovers for Columbus, who seem to be relying on the dump-and-chase, something that has never served them well as a team.

6:00 Good save by Giguere on a shot from Antoine Vermette.  Columbus now has the last three shots, trailing 10-5 on the shot clock.

5:14 Second shot off the post of the game for Anaheim, this time off a redirect by Ryan from a Niedermayer shot.

3:14 Nice feed in slot by Nash to a wide open Vermette, but the puck just slides off his stick at the last minute.  Vermette should have at that one, and chances are would have had a goal had he been able to control it.

1:34 COLUMBUS GOAL!  A blocked shot by Vermette goes right to Kristian Huselius, who passes across two lines to a streaking Nash, who corrals the puck and blasts a slapper past Giguere on the ensuing breakaway.  Giguere was way out to play the angle, but obviously gave Nash some net to shoot at, and he made no mistake.  Columbus 1, Anaheim 1.

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