The NHL season is just about two weeks old and your Columbus Blue Jackets have participated in five of their first 82. We’re just at that part in the season where overreactions run rampant as you wait to see just what exactly plays out during the course of a regular season.
As the Jackets kickstarted the 2018-19 campaign with an overtime win at the Red Wings, you might’ve overlooked the lackadaisical second period, shrugged off the Wings tying the game and instead focused on winning the opener, their seventh-straight over Detroit since 2015-16. The power play showed flashes of great promise in the first period, converting on its first chance.