{"id":376065,"date":"2026-10-18T04:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T04:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/376065\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T04:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T04:14:08","slug":"kent-johnson-scores-in-ot-as-blue-jackets-beat-rangers-1-0-behind-jet-greaves-shutout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/376065\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent Johnson scores in OT as Blue Jackets beat Rangers 1-0 behind Jet Greaves&#8217; shutout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kent Johnson scored with 1:33 remaining on the clock in overtime, Jet Greaves got his fifth career shutout and the Columbus Blue Jackets beat the New York Rangers 1-0 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Charlie Coyle brought the puck into the zone and passed to Zach Werenski near the left faceoff circle. Werenski then found Johnson in the slot, who fired a wrist shot past Rangers goaltender Dylan Garand for his team-leading fourth goal of the season as the Blue Jackets snapped a two-game slide.<\/p>\n<p>It was Werenski&#8217;s 22nd career point in overtime. With seven goals and 15 assists, he passed Seth Jones for most overtime points in franchise history.<\/p>\n<p>It was the fourth time the Blue Jackets won 1-0 in overtime. The previous occasion was Feb. 4, 2020, against the Florida Panthers.<\/p>\n<p>Greaves stopped 29 shots in his first shutout since Feb. 4 last season against Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Garand made 28 saves for the Rangers (6-3-1), who have dropped their past two games. They went on the power play three times in the third period, but were unable to convert.<\/p>\n<p>New York&#8217;s Alexis Lafreni\u00e8re had a six-game point streak snapped. He also posted a six-game run in 2021-22.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Rangers: Host the Anaheim Ducks on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Jackets: At the Minnesota Wild on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kent Johnson scored with 1:33 remaining on the clock in overtime, Jet Greaves got his fifth career shutout&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,541,539],"class_list":["post-376065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-nhl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}