Montréal Canadiens vs Columbus Blue Jackets
Regular season · Monday, March 12, 2018 · Nationwide Arena
TSN2 · RDS · FS-O
Game summary
The Columbus Blue Jackets beat the Montréal Canadiens 5–2 on Monday, March 12, 2018 at Nationwide Arena. The Canadiens outshot the Blue Jackets 40–25.
Goals came from Brendan Gallagher, Nick Foligno, Alexander Wennberg, Seth Jones, Boone Jenner, Jonathan Drouin and Ian Cole.
Sergei Bobrovsky made 38 saves on 40 shots for the win; Charlie Lindgren stopped 20 of 25.
Three stars
Scoring
1st period
Brendan Gallagher (25)Jeff Petry (23)1–000:34 MTL
Nick Foligno (15)Unassisted1–104:17 CBJ
Alexander Wennberg (7)Seth Jones (34), Cam Atkinson (17)1–207:51 CBJ · 
Seth Jones (14)Artemi Panarin (40), Alexander Wennberg (22)1–314:03 CBJ ·
2nd period
Boone Jenner (8)Alexander Wennberg (23), Ian Cole (12)1–402:34 CBJ
Jonathan Drouin (11)Paul Byron (13)2–415:46 MTL
3rd period
Ian Cole (5)Alexander Wennberg (24)2–517:41 CBJ
Team stats
MTLCBJ
4025
45%55%
0/22/3
64
2221
1020
69
49
Penalties
- 7:11 into the first period
Jeff Petry · tripping2 min - 13:30 into the first periodNicolas Deslauriers · tripping2 min
- 17:59 into the first period
Jack Johnson · slashing2 min - 17:16 into the second periodDaniel Carr · slashing2 min
- 8:34 into the third periodBench · too many men on the ice2 min
Season series
Montréal Canadiens
| 11Brendan GallagherR | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 2 | 18:09 |
| 41Paul ByronL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +2 | 0 | 16:39 |
| 92Jonathan DrouinL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 2 | 17:05 |
| 26Jeff PetryD | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 3 | 23:45 |
| 20Nicolas DeslauriersL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 12:46 |
| 25Jacob de la RoseL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 0 | 15:37 |
| 27Alex GalchenyukC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 3 | 16:59 |
| 38Nikita ScherbakR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 14:13 |
| 43Daniel CarrL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 11:16 |
| 49Logan ShawR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 12:30 |
| 54Charles HudonL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 3 | 16:06 |
| 62Artturi LehkonenL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 14:40 |
| 65Andrew ShawC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 14:04 |
| 8Jordie BennD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −3 | 3 | 18:08 |
| 22Karl AlznerD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17:57 |
| 28Mike ReillyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 3 | 22:42 |
| 36Brett LernoutD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 1 | 16:45 |
| 58Noah JuulsenD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 17:26 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37Antti NiemiG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 39Charlie LindgrenG | L | 25 | 5 | .800 |
Columbus Blue Jackets
| 10Alexander WennbergC | 1 | 3 | 4 | +1 | 2 | 13:49 |
| 3Seth JonesD | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 3 | 14:13 |
| 23Ian ColeD | 1 | 1 | 2 | +1 | 1 | 20:54 |
| 9Artemi PanarinC | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 3 | 18:24 |
| 13Cam AtkinsonR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 2 | 17:54 |
| 38Boone JennerC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +2 | 4 | 14:01 |
| 71Nick FolignoL | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 1 | 17:46 |
| 17Brandon DubinskyC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13:43 |
| 18Pierre-Luc DuboisL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | 17:47 |
| 22Sonny MilanoL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13:58 |
| 26Thomas VanekL | 0 | 0 | 0 | +2 | 0 | 13:13 |
| 28Oliver BjorkstrandR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13:49 |
| 45Lukas SedlakC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11:04 |
| 55Mark LetestuC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14:10 |
| 7Jack JohnsonD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 20:59 |
| 8Zach WerenskiD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | 19:30 |
| 58David SavardD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | 22:07 |
| 65Markus NutivaaraD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | 18:41 |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 70Joonas KorpisaloG | 0 | 0 | – | |
| 72Sergei BobrovskyG | W | 40 | 2 | .950 |