Chernyshov gave San Jose a 3-2 lead when he buried a cross-ice pass from Will Smith with a one-timer from the right face-off circle to the blocker side on Elvis Merzlikins.<\/p>\n
Macklin Celebrini had a goal and an assist, and Smith had two assists for the Sharks (33-31-7), who had been 0-5-1 during the streak. Alex Nedeljkovic made 22 saves.<\/p>\n
Denton Mateychuk and Cole Sillinger scored, and Merzlikins made 33 saves for the Blue Jackets (38-24-11), who have lost two straight and three of four.<\/p>\n
Mateychuk gave the Blue Jackets a 1-0 lead just 31 seconds into the first period with a wrist shot from the left circle past a screened Nedeljkovic to the blocker side.<\/p>\n
Chernyshov tied it 1-1 at 17:17, taking a pass from Smith and putting a snap shot from the right circle off Merzlikins’ blocker and into the net.<\/p>\n
Sillinger put Columbus up 2-1 at 12:09. Ivan Provorov intercepted a clearing attempt from Sharks defenseman Dmitry Orlov and fed a cross-slot pass to Sillinger in the right circle, where he dropped to one knee and beat Nedeljkovic with a one-timer.<\/p>\n
Celebrini tied the game 2-2 just 57 seconds into the third period with a power-play goal. Following a face-off win by Alex Wennberg in the left circle, Orlov gained control of the puck and passed to Celebrini, who beat Merzlikins to the glove side with a one-timer off the right post.<\/p>\n
Blue Jackets forward Dmitri Voronkov left the game at 2:18 of the second period with an upper-body injury after blocking a shot by Mario Ferraro off his right hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chernyshov gave San Jose a 3-2 lead when he buried a cross-ice pass from Will Smith with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-571016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}