PREVIEW: Blue Jackets vs. Canucks

BUY TICKETS
The reset button was hit as soon as the horn sounded at the conclusion of the Blue Jackets' 4-0 loss to the Washington Capitals at Nationwide Arena on Saturday.
While the margin of defeat was alarming it was the way the Blue Jackets showed little fight, passion or structure - coupled with a 9-6 beatdown to the Calgary Flames in the previous home game - that had coach John Tortorella aggravated, to put it mildly.
"After the Washington game it was the exact word I had in my head walking off the ice that we're going to have to reset this team," he told the media on Monday. "When I broke down the tape yesterday, there was no question."

That do-over was not limited to the players.
Tortorella had switched defensive coach Brad Shaw to handle the forwards at the start of this season, swapping spots with Brad Larsen, who began overseeing the defenseman. Tortorella said now is the time to try and shake things up again and return each to his former role.
He also said it's not an indictment of Shaw or Larsen.
The change came after Tortorella and general manager Jarmo Kekalainen met Monday morning to discuss the state of the team.
"The person to blame is me. I'm in charge of structure on this team," Tortorella said. "Maybe a different voice now, as we've had our struggles, will help but I'm certainly not blaming one particular coach. The guy that is responsible for it, it stops with me because I do the 5-on-5, the structure. That's my responsibility."
The Blue Jackets had a spirited workout followed by a video session reviewing the ugly and uglier aspects of the Washington game. The Jackets were playing for first place in the Metropolitan Division in front of a sellout crowd and laid an egg by falling behind 3-0 in the first period.
"The tape doesn't lie," Blue Jackets captain Nick Foligno said. "It's pretty cut and dried when you go through the video what we did wrong. It's the cheating and the amount of compete.
"What happens during a season is things go well for you and you start to go down a weird road. We've gone too far down that. We've got to get back to checking and playing hard defense. We did everything not to win the game. They did everything to win the game."

Tortorella said he has given the players leeway in this offensive age of the NHL at the expense of defense. Odd-man rushes particularly have been an epidemic.
"You try to evolve as a coach and you try to leave them alone and allow them to play and this is what happens sometimes," he said. "You end up giving them too much rope. They don't do it maliciously, but they start getting sloppy. We're going to try to get more structure without paralyzing them."
Saturday was the breaking point.
"It was disgusting," Tortorella said. "After our loss home, what a debacle 9-6, to show up on Saturday night for first place seeding, at least this time of the year, against the team that knocked us out of the playoffs, in front of, I guess, pretty basically a full house, it's embarrassing.
"We did not compete. We sensed it right away. It caught me off guard. There's no excuses, it's embarrassing. … I'm embarrassed as the coach of the team. I have missed something in preparing them for something I thought was a really important game for us. It was. I missed something along the way. I'm part of it. I'm embarrassed that we embarrassed our organization."

Net results
The Blue Jackets are on record pace as far as scoring goals and allowing goals but it's the latter that has Foligno's attention. Columbus is sixth in goals scored (3.45) and 26th in goals allowed (3.38).
"We've scored a lot of goals. What a waste," he said. "You're doing all this great stuff offensively to ruin it defensively.
"You're not going to win consistently in this league if you're trying to win 7-6, or 8-7. You have to find a way to win the 2-1 games, the 1-0 games."
Not so friendly
The Blue Jackets are 7-6-1 at home compared to 9-5-1 on the road.
Foligno understands why fans are frustrated.
"They come expecting a certain brand of hockey and we've not shown that the past couple of games. That's on us," he said. "Our fans are great. They support us. They know better days are ahead than what they've experienced."
Hoodie-winked
Tortorella was asked Monday the players had fined him for wearing a hoodie on the bench instead of a suit for the game Thursday at the Philadelphia Flyers. He was suffering from the flu and was trying to stay warm.
"They'll never get it. They'll never get it. That was for a reason," he said. "They better not (try). Right now, they better not even come to me with that. Definitely the wrong time for that."
For the record, he was smiling or close to it.
Movement afoot
The bottom two lines were shuffled during practice Monday.
Brandon Dubinsky went from left wing on the third line to his natural center on the fourth to play alongside Markus Hannikainen on the left. The right wing spot appears to be between Riley Nash, who was the center on the fourth line and Lukas Sedlak, who was scratched the past game. Oliver Bjorkstrand replaces Dubinsky on the Wennberg line.
Defensive pairs were a mishmash with Zack Werenski playing with Ryan Murray at times as well as with Seth Jones.
Blue Jackets projected lineup
Artemi Panarin -- Pierre-Luc Dubois -- Cam Atkinson
Nick Foligno -- Boone Jenner -- Josh Anderson
Oliver Bjorkstrand -- Alex Wennberg -- Anthony Duclair
Markus Hannikainen -- Brandon Dubinsky -- Riley Nash
Ryan Murray -- Seth Jones
Markus Nutivaara -- David Savard
Zach Werenski -- Scott Harrington
Sergei Bobrovsky
Joonas Korpisalo
Scratched: F Lukas Sedlak
Injured:None