BLUE JACKETS TEAM NOTES

• The Blue Jackets now have points in seven of their last 11 games (4-4-3) following tonight’s 5-2 loss to the Blues.
• Columbus completed its season series with the Blues tonight, also falling 5-2 at St. Louis on October 15.
• The home team fell in the series for the first time in six games and moved to 15-5-1 in the last 21 contests.
• Columbus had its two-game win streak home win streak in the series snapped and is now 6-3-1 in the past 10 contests at Nationwide Arena dating back to Apr. 12, 2013.
• The winning team in the series has scored four-plus goals in seven of the last eight contests. 
• The club’s blueliners posted 0-1-1 tonight and have now recorded 4-16-20 in the last 15 games (25-72-97 in 65 games this season).
• With one power play goal tonight, Columbus has now scored a power play goal in each of the last five games (5-of-12; 41.7 pct.) and nine of the last 12 (9-of-31; 29.0 pct.).  The club has now converted on 14-of-53 power play chances over the last 20 games dating back to Jan. 21 (26.7 pct.).
• CBJ have scored a power play goal in five of their past six home games (5-of-20, 25.0 pct.).
• The Blue Jackets killed off both Blues’ power play attempts tonight and have now killed off 51-of-64 opponent power play attempts over the last 25 games since Jan. 12 (79.7 pct.).
• The club’s rookies posted 0-2-2 tonight and have now registered 26-25-51 over the last 34 contests (overall, 39-43-82 in 65 games this season).
• CBJ are 7-3-0 in their last 10 Saturday games dating back to December 31.
• The Blue Jackets had their third-straight sellout crowd of 18,222 in attendance tonight.

«  Tonight’s game marked Blue Jackets’ General Manager Jarmo Kekalainen’s 800^th as a GM in the NHL.

BLUE JACKETS PLAYER NOTES

«  The Blue Jackets were led by C Boone Jenner in shots (6) and hits (4), D Andrew Peeke in blocked shots (5) and D Erik Gudbranson in TOI (22:12).

«  LW Patrik Laine notched his team-leading 21^st goal of the season to stretch his goal streak to four-straight games (4-1-5) and his points streak to five-straight games (4-2-6).  He now has 5-4-9 in his past seven games and 12-16-28 with seven multi-point efforts in 26 outings since Jan. 10.  The forward is now three goals from 200 for his NHL career (197-174-371 in 457 GP).  He improved to 17-5-22 in 18 career games against St. Louis, including points in four-straight home games (3-3-6) vs. the club and goals in each of his last four contests overall (4-1-5).

«  C Boone Jenner scored his 20^th goal of the season, accomplishing the feat for the third time in his career.  He has now picked up points in 11 of his past 20 contests (9-6-15; overall, 20-17-37 in 54 GP).

«  LW Johnny Gaudreau tallied his team-leading 11^th multi-assist and 15^th multi-point game of the campaign with 0-2-2 to give him 1-7-8 in his last 10 games and has collected 3-13-16 in his last 19 contests.  He has now notched 6-19-25 in 23 career games vs. St. Louis, including 2-8-10 with three multi-point efforts in the last 6 outings.

«  C Kent Johnson registered his 19^th assist of the season and now has 1-4-5 in his last seven contests (overall, 13-19-32 in 62 GP).

«  D Nick Blankenburg recorded his eighth assist of the campaign, giving him 0-3-3 in his last five games (overall, 3-8-11 in 29 GP).

BLUE JACKETS POST-GAME AUDIO INTERVIEWS

HC Brad Larsen | F Johnny Gaudreau | G Michael Hutchinson  | F Boone Jenner

BLUES POST-GAME AUDIO INTERVIEWS

HC Craig Berube | F Sammy Blais | F Jordan Kyrou |  F Brayden Schenn

BLUE JACKETS UPCOMING SCHEDULE

Sunday, Mar. 12                      No Practice

Monday, Mar. 13                     Practice – 2pm ET at SAP Center

Tuesday, Mar. 14                     at San Jose – 10:30pm ET at SAP Center

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