GAME STORY: Blue Jackets 7, Oilers 3

EDMONTON, AB -The Oilers opened to a three-goal lead but the Blue Jackets replied with seven straight, handing Edmonton a 7-3 defeat Tuesday at Rogers Place.
The Oilers fall to 34-37-6 on the season.

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Connor McDavid registered a goal and two assists, while his linemate Ryan Nugent-Hopkins notched one tally and one helper.
Edmonton went 1-for-3 on the man-advantage and 3-for-3 on the penalty kill.
Cam Talbot stopped 13 of 18 shots before being pulled. Laurent Brossoit made nine stops on 11 shots in relief.
Edmonton's offense halted at three, allowing Columbus to take control of the game.
"We got the start we wanted, up 3-0 and then I don't know what happened there," said Adam Larsson, who logged 22:30 of ice time. "I thought our defensive game today was not even close to where it has to be."
Six goals were scored in the opening 20 of Tuesday's match.
McDavid hogged much of the attention due to a three-point first-period performance, scoring shorthanded and dishing two helpers to confirm a new career-high in points with 102.
There's a list of accolades the Oilers Captain reached, becoming the eighth NHL player to record multiple 100-point campaigns by the age of 21 or younger; the first Oiler to record consecutive 100-point years since Mark Messier and Wayne Gretzky did through the 1986-87 and 1987-88 seasons; and the newest Oiler to score 40 in a campaign since Petr Klima in 1990-91.
"His game speaks for itself," said Andrej Sekera.
McDavid collected point No. 100 less than four minutes into the match with an assist on Nugent-Hopkins' 22nd goal.
Sergei Bobrovsky mishandled the puck in the trapezoid, gifting it to McDavid behind the net. He quickly dished it to Nugent-Hopkins in front for a tap-in 3:37 after opening faceoff.
A scary moment occurred on the following shift when linesman Steve Barton fell to the ground after McDavid was checked into the boards near the offensive zone blueline. Barton was taken off on a stretcher and the game continued with two referees and one linesman.

Following the prolonged stoppage, McDavid continued the show while killing Darnell Nurse's tripping minor by scoring his 40th of the season shorthanded.
Nugent-Hopkins sauced the puck to McDavid on a 2-on-1 and he flicked a backhander past the Russian netminder.
Edmonton proceeded to score their third goal on just their fifth shot - this time on the power play.
Drake Caggiula cradled Leon Draisaitl's centring feed, roofing it back bar and out to notch his 13th of the year. McDavid was later awarded a secondary assist on the play.
"I thought we were fortunate to be up 3-0," said Oilers Head Coach Todd McLellan. "Not the fact that we scored the goals, the fact that they didn't get any earlier than that."
Seemingly out of it, the Blue Jackets replied with two quick strikes 52 seconds apart.
Thomas Vanek chipped the puck at Talbot from just above the goal-line, getting a bounce off a player in front to convert at 12:39.
Then Artemi Panarin cashed in a rebound from the side of the net at 13:31.
The club erased their previous three-goal deficit completely when David Savard's point shot hit Vanek and fluttered in. It was Vanek's second goal of the period, creating a new game completely with the 3-3 score.

"It was almost as if we thought it was going to be an easy night after taking a 3-0 lead," said Milan Lucic.
The Blue Jackets owned much of the momentum by the end of the first and continued it in the second. The club scored three in the middle frame, with Vanek netting a hat trick to make it six unanswered.
"We had an open game," said Larsson. "It was 3-3 and we let them get into the game late in the first and they just kept rolling in the second. We didn't have any answers today."
Boone Jenner started it just 1:38 in, batting the puck out of mid-air to gain the 4-3 lead.
Then following Caggiula's high-sticking minor, Sekera's pass was intercepted by Cam Atkinson, who walked in uncontested to unload a wrist shot glove side at 6:24. Brossoit spelled Talbot following the goal.
Vanek achieved the trick with under five remaining in the second, teeing up a slapper post and in.
Markus Nutivaara made it seven straight for the visitors when he released a quick shot while Brossoit was sliding across the crease in the third.
"They were probably better than us early and they were better than us all night," said McLellan. "They valued the defensive side and the checking side a lot more than the team wearing orange."
The Oilers embark on their final road trip of the season, beginning Thursday against the Vancouver Canucks.