Blue Jackets rally past frustrated Blues

ST. LOUIS -- Boone Jenner and Anthony Duclair each scored twice for the Columbus Blue Jackets in a 7-4 win against the St. Louis Blues at Enterprise Center on Thursday.

Josh Anderson had a goal and an assist, Seth Jones scored his first goal since his return from a knee injury, and Artemi Panarin had three assists for Columbus (5-4-0). Joonas Korpisalo made 33 saves.
"I think all of the opportunities that we missed the past couple of games started going in for us and we were very opportunistic tonight," Duclair said. "We had a rough start, but at the same time the two quick goals to start the second really gave us momentum all of the way through."
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The Blue Jackets trailed 2-0 before scoring four unanswered goals against Blues goaltender Jake Allen, who was pulled in favor of Chad Johnson in the second period after allowing four goals on 21 shots.
"When you get down two it's not what you want," Jenner said. "But it's that early in the game and you've got a lot of game left and we felt confident the way we were playing."
Johnson allowed three goals on 11 shots for the Blues (2-4-3), who are 1-3-2 in their past six games.

The Blues held a closed-door, players-only meeting for 23 minutes before leaders emerged to answer questions for the frustrating loss and to the start of the season.
"It [stinks]," forward Vladimir Tarasenko said. "If I had more English words I would explain this, but not much. It feels [bad] to be doing this in front of our fans. This is not the most fun time in our life and in my life personally. I don't know if you can [stink] more and then you get out of it. ... I just want to say sorry for our fans who support us. I feel [bad] now after games like this."
Jenner's power-play goal at 16:47 of the first cut the lead to 2-1. Duclair tied it 2-2 at 2:04 of the second, and Jenner gave Columbus its first lead at 3-2 at 3:29. David Savard made it 4-2 at 8:58 and Allen was pulled.
"We know we need to be better; I'm tired of having these conversations," said Blues captain Alex Pietrangelo, who was minus-3 in 20:33. "We just need to be better.
"We're just not good in our small aspects of our game. We're giving up odd-man rushes, we're giving up chances which are just uncharacteristic of this group. ... I'm tired of leaving our goalies out to dry."

Alexander Steen brought the Blues within 4-3 at 11:30, but Anderson scored 38 seconds into the third to make it 5-3, and Duclair on the power play at 2:35 made it 6-3. Jones, who missed the first seven games with a Grade 2 MCL sprain of his right knee before making his debut Tuesday, scored at 6:03 to make it 7-3.
Zach Sanford scored at 12:36 to pull the Blues within 7-4.
Tarasenko's first goal in seven games, on the power play, gave St. Louis a 1-0 lead at 4:26 of the first. Jaden Schwartz's first goal of the season at 12:40 made it 2-0.
"It's frustrating, for sure," Steen said. "I don't know what to say. It's not good enough, obviously. We're going to get back to work tomorrow. We can't feel sorry for ourselves."

They said it

"We need to score a goal before they get three. It's an important part of the game. I think we settled in and played. I think we played a good hockey game." -- Blue Jackets coach John Tortorella on being down 2-0
"Heck, my job should be in question right now. That comes with the trade, but I'm not going to coach to save my job. I'm going to coach to try and win a Stanley Cup. I believe in this group, so whatever we need, every single day, I'm going to try and do that." -- Blues coach Mike Yeo

Need to know

Forward Nick Foligno had his 147th assist for the Blue Jackets to pass Fedor Tyutin and move into third place all-time. ... Panarin has five assists in his past five games. … Columbus defensemen Zach Werenski, Scott Harrington and Ryan Murray each had two assists. ... Blue Jackets forward Markus Hannikainen made his season debut. He had one shot in 11:32. … Blues forward Ryan O'Reilly had an assist to extend his point streak to four games (two goals, five assists). … Blues forward Oskar Sundqvist made his season debut after missing the first eight games because of a concussion. He had two hits and was minus-1 in 8:33.

What's next

Blue Jackets:Host the Buffalo Sabres on Saturday (7 p.m. ET; FS-O, MSG-B, NHL.TV)
Blues: Host the Chicago Blackhawks on Saturday (8 p.m. ET; FS-MW, WGN, NHL.TV)