COLUMBUS — Kirill Marchenko scored the only goal in a four-round shootout to lift the Columbus Blue Jackets to a 4-3 win over Vancouver Monday, ending the Canucks’ five-game winning streak.
After Marchenko slid the puck between Casey DeSmith’s pads, Columbus goalie Elvis Merzlikins blocked Pius Suter’s shot to help the Blue Jackets’ end a three-game losing streak.
Columbus rallied three times in regulation with Dmitri Voronkov’s second goal of game with 9:03 left in the third period forcing the overtime.
Yegor Chinakhov also had a goal and Merzlikins — playing for the first time since Dec. 29 — made 27 saves.
J.T. Miller and Elias Pettersson each had a goal and an assist for Vancouver. Conor Garland also scored and DeSmith had 41 stops for the Pacific Division leaders.
Miller got credit for his 20th goal on a deflected puck that tumbled past Merzlikins in the first period.
Thirty seconds later, Chinakhov was waiting for a perfect pass from Johnny Gaudreau from behind the goal line and beat DeSmith in close. Garland’s one-timer from the slot gave Vancouver a 2-1 lead late in the first.
Voronkov deflected in a long shot by Adam Boqvist to tie the game at 2 early in the second period. On a power play later in the period, Pettersson beat Merzlikins over the glove from the right dot for his 23rd goal of the season.
UP NEXT
Canucks: Host Arizona on Thursday night.
Blue Jackets: Host New Jersey on Friday night.
Columbus 4, Vancouver 3
Vancouver 2 1 0 0 — 3
Columbus 1 1 1 1 — 4
Columbus won shootout 1-0
First Period_1, Vancouver, Miller 20 (Pettersson, Zadorov), 5:28. 2, Columbus, Chinakhov 11 (Gaudreau), 5:55. 3, Vancouver, Garland 6 (Joshua, Blueger), 14:54.
Second Period_4, Columbus, Voronkov 8 (Gaudreau, Boqvist), 3:28 (pp). 5, Vancouver, Pettersson 23 (Hughes, Miller), 7:35 (pp).
Third Period_6, Columbus, Voronkov 9 (Roslovic), 10:57.
Overtime_None.
Shootout_Columbus 1 (Gaudreau NG, Chinakhov NG, Johnson NG, Marchenko G), Vancouver 0 (Kuzmenko NG, Miller NG, Pettersson NG, Suter NG).
Shots on Goal_Vancouver 14-10-5-1_30. Columbus 8-22-7-4_41.
Power-play opportunities_Vancouver 1 of 4; Columbus 1 of 5.
Goalies_Vancouver, DeSmith 7-3-3 (41 shots-38 saves). Columbus, Merzlikins 8-8-6 (30-27).
A_17,622 (18,500). T_2:35.
Referees_Chris Rooney, Chris Schlenker. Linesmen_Julien Fournier, CJ Murray.
