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COLUMBUS Calvin De Haan Jersey Womens , Ohio (AP) — Leon Draisaitl and the Edmonton Oilers jumped all over the listless Columbus Blue Jackets.Draisaitl had a goal and two assists, Mikko Koskinen made 30 saves and the Oilers beat the Blue Jackets 4-0 on Saturday.“It was another good team performance,” coach Ken Hitchcock said. “You don’t have to have the best players in the league to be successful, you need to have the best team, and that’s what we’re proving night in and night out. We’ve got a hell of a team going on right now, and we’re not going to let go of the rope.”Columbus had won three of four, including a high-energy overtime victory against Philadelphia on Thursday night. The Blue Jackets are fighting to stay above the wild-card line in the Eastern Conference, but they were off right from the start against Edmonton.“The way we played, the way we turned the puck over in the neutral zone, their guys had it easy, I think Womens Deryk Engelland Jersey ,” Columbus defenseman Seth Jones said. “We didn’t have any sustained forecheck, we didn’t make their top lines play defense, I thought, for long stretches of the night. That’s what they want.”Columbus coach John Tortorella’s postgame session with reporters lasted all of 36 seconds.“I’m not going to pick it apart,” he said. “We’re moving right by it.”Zack Kassian, Josh Currie and Alex Chiasson also scored for the Oilers, who are 4-1-1 since a five-game losing streak. Connor McDavid had three assists.Koskinen improved to 18-15-4 with his fourth career shutout — all this season.Sergei Bobrovsky had 15 saves for Columbus before he was pulled after two periods. Joonas Korpisalo stopped each of the five shots he faced, but Columbus still couldn’t generate any offense.Kassian, who broke Brandon Dubinsky’s eye socket in a fight in his previous game at Columbus, got his 10th goal of the season 6:27 into the game, going high to beat Bobrovsky from the right circle off a cross-ice pass from Draisaitl.Early in the second period http://www.officialknightsproshop.com/authentic-adidas-james-neal-jersey , the Oilers had their way for a long stretch in the Columbus zone, picking at the edges until McDavid circled around the net and fed Currie, who scored his second of the season at 5:07.Draisaitl then buried a shot from the right circle after a give-and-go with McDavid, making it 3-0 at 8:53. Draisaitl became the third NHL player to reach 40 goals this season, behind only Washington’s Alex Ovechkin and Chicago’s Patrick Kane.Chiasson broke a 21-game goal drought when he scored the Oilers’ fourth late in the second, eliciting boos from the Nationwide Arena crowd.“What, is there 17 games left?” Chaisson said. “We’re all playing 17 playoff games. For us, we can’t look too forward. We have to focus on what we can control. With that mind set, and we keep our energy level up and everyone is buying in and playing the right way, we have a chance.”Hitchcock said Edmonton is reaping the benefits of great team play for about the past month and believes his team is in striking distance for a Western Conference playoff spot.“If you keep playing at this level,” he said Jonathan Marchessault Jersey , “eventually the hockey gods help you out.”NOTES: Draisaitl is 32nd Edmonton player to have a 40-plus goal season. He has eight goals and seven assists in the last 10 games. … McDavid has five points in his last three games. He has 90 this season, third in the NHL.UP NEXTOilers: Visit Buffalo on Monday.Blue Jackets: Host Winnipeg on Sunday. BOSTON — Claude Julien won a Stanley Cup behind the Boston Bruins‘ bench in 2011.On Saturday night, the Montreal coach returns again with the Canadiens. His latest visit — for the latest installment of hockey’s top rivalry — comes after a Thursday night disappointment in Buffalo.“They out-competed us,” Julien said after a 4-3 loss left the Canadiens 1-1-1 in their last three games. “I’m not going to say our guys didn’t work, but they out-competed us. They won a lot of battles along the walls, way more than usual.Article continues below ...“In our own end, we had to do a better job of killing plays and getting the puck out. We didn’t do a good job of that. They were on pucks quicker than we were on a lot of occasions. But even so, for a road game we were still in the game with a chance to win or at least come out with a point and we blew it. It’s our own fault.”While the Habs (5-2-2, 1-1-2 on the road) were losing in Buffalo, the Bruins improved to 6-2-2 (4-0-0 at home) as Jaroslav Halak pitched a 3-0 shutout over the Philadelphia Flyers in Boston.Halak is 3-0-2 with a 1.43 goals-against average, two shutouts and a .945 save percentage and could be forcing a goaltender controversy as Tuukka Rask has had a subpar start.“It could Marc-Andre Fleury Jersey , absolutely,” Bruins coach Bruce Cassidy said when asked if Halak could force his way into the No. 1 spot. “We (script goalie starts) at the start of the year for — we’ve done it here for years and just to work Tuukka’s starts in because he’s been the number one.“But if Jaro’s able to push him and eventually take the job, if and when that happens, then we’ll look at that. We’re going to try to keep it as balanced as possible early on, and then like we said if one separates himself from the other like every other position here then we’ll allow that to evolve.”The Bruins are 2-0 after going 0-1-2 in the first three games of a four-game road trip. They swept last year’s four-game season series with the Canadiens — after years of frustration.Carey Price has a shot at a milestone Saturday. If he wins, he breaks a tie with Patrick Roy for second-most wins by a Canadiens goalie, with 290 — second only to Jacques Plante’s 314.“Pretty cool experience,” Price said of tying Roy. “It was a great night. Overall, everybody played well. Great effort from everybody.”While the Bruins’ top line of Patrice Bergeron, David Pastrnak and Brad Marchand has been on fire — with 19 goals and 44 points in 10 games — new Montreal acquisition has a five-game point streak and 10 points in his first nine games in his new uniform. That makes him the third Hab in the last 20 years with 10 points in his first nine games with the team.Price, 3-1-2 with a 2.48 goals-against average and .906 save percentage this season Nate Schmidt Jersey , is a bawdy 24-11-5 with 2.42/.921 numbers against the Bruins in the regular season.Neither Bruins goalie has great numbers against the Canadiens.Rask, 3-2 with a 3.38 goals-against average and .901 save percentage this season, is just 10-15-3 with 2.41/.917 numbers, but he did beat them three times (five goals against) in eight days last year. Halak is 4-4-0 with 2.92/.889 numbers against Montreal.Through Thursday, the Bruins were 11th in the NHL is goals per game, fifth in goals against and on the power play and 16th in penalty killing. The Canadiens were 14th in goals for, 10th in goals against, 19th on the power play and 22nd on the PK.