COLUMBUS, Ohio – Nick Foligno had two goals and an assist and Sergei Bobrovsky made 25 saves to get his first win of the season as the Columbus Blue Jackets beat the Colorado Avalanche 5-2 on Tuesday night.
Pierre-Luc Dubois, Artemi Panarin and Josh Anderson also scored for the Blue Jackets, who dealt the Avs their first loss.
Philipp Grubauer, making his Colorado debut after being acquired from Washington in June, had 30 saves. Nathan MacKinnon and Carl Soderberg scored in the second period, but Colorado was shut out in the third as Columbus broke a 2-2 tie and added a couple more.
Panarin found an opening from inside the left circle about five minutes into third period to give Columbus the lead. Foligno got his second of the night, a wrist shot from inside the left circle, with 8:28 left in the game. Anderson added an empty-netter from the other end of the ice with 2 minutes remaining.
Foligno got his first goal of the season 6:49 into the game when he took a pass from Alexander Wennberg from behind the line and found the net with a back-hander from the slot. Dubois got what he called “a pretty easy goal” halfway through the period, going off Grubauer’s glove with a rebound while Columbus had a 5-on-3 advantage.
Early in the second period, MacKinnon got his third goal of the year when he pulled up and snapped a shot over Bobrovsky’s glove from 40 feet out. Soderberg got a deflection goal – his 200th NHL point – on a power play to tie the game later in the second.
Colorado next will play Thursday at Buffalo.
