"Give them credit, they just ended up finding a way," coach John Tortorella said. "I still think we're a nervous hockey club through it. We score the fourth goal, they come right back and all we have to do is get the puck out, they tie it up right after -- but we stayed with it.
"You know, we have played games, outstanding games, and we lost. I thought we [stunk] tonight and we won."
And sometimes, especially this deep in the season, with points at a premium and fewer and fewer games to get them, that's all that matters. All that matters is that the Blue Jackets left Boston with two points, with their spot in the playoffs that much closer, with the assurance of surviving a game they didn't have to survive.
"We should feel good about it," Foligno said. "As bad as some things went, and we didn't play our best game, we've got to feel good about finding a way to win that.
"I think guys know we got away with one. Let's not forget that they dominated some parts of that game because of the things we didn't want to do. But we should learn from that. If anything, just learn from it. Know that we made it so hard on ourselves and we found a way to win. If we just play a little bit smarter, a little bit harder, we can make it a little easier on ourselves and get more wins."