Bowness was not happy with his team\u2019s play in the first period either, but liked the way the Blue Jackets responded.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe really want to emphasize that we want to become a pressure team and that’s pressure with the puck, but that’s also pressure without the puck,\u201d Bowness said. \u201cThey get it, man, we want to go at them. We don’t want to give them time and space.\u201d<\/p>\n
Marchenko upped the lead to 2-0 at 5:49 of the second period. After Columbus forward Adam Fantilli<\/a> won a face-off, Marchenko outmuscled Marcus Pettersson<\/a> for the puck near the left wall and stick-handled toward the net before scoring with a wrist a shot to the upper right corner.<\/p>\n \u201cYou get beat off the wall,\u201d Foote said. \u201cYou go in the wrong side of a bigger man. Marchenko on the one. You know he’s good at that. He’s a big man. You’ve got to stand on the defensive side of a guy like that and respect that. When he gets that space, he’s going to make you pay.\u201d<\/p>\n Werenski then extended it to 3-0 at 10:14, scoring with a wrist shot from the right circle for his team-leading 18th goal of the season after a setup by Johnson.<\/p>\n \u201cI was just attacking,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cI was looking for [Marchenko] actually, and then two guys kind of went to \u2018Marchie,\u2019 so I just dropped it for \u2018Z\u2019 and he did the rest. He has a great shot.\u201d<\/p>\n Boeser cut it to 3-1 on the power play at 14:09. He scored from the left circle off a cross-ice pass by Elias Pettersson<\/a> for his first goal in 22 games since Nov. 28.<\/p>\n \u201cIt definitely feels good, but it doesn’t feel that good because of the result of the game,\u201d Boeser said.<\/p>\n