Blue Jackets sting Maple Leafs
Seth Jones had a goal an assist and Joonas Korpisalo made 39 saves to help the Columbus Blue Jackets beat the Toronto Maple Leafs, 4-2, in National Hockey League action Wednesday night.
Lukas Sedlak, Pierre-Luc Dubois and Alexander Wennberg also scored for the Blue Jackets, who never trailed in snapping a twogame losing streak.
They moved into a tie for second place in a traffic jam of teams battling for the top spot in the tough Metropolitan Division.
Korpisalo, starting in place of Sergei Bobrovsky on the first night of a back-to-back, allowed a firstperiod goal to Jake Gardiner and another in the third to Mitch Marner.
Toronto (21-14-1) has lost four of its past five.
Former Blue Jackets goalie Curtis McElhinney had 33 saves for the Leafs.
Sedlak scored for the Blue Jackets (21-13-1) with about seven minutes left in the first period.
Jones got a short-handed goal with 1:15 left in the period.
The Maple Leafs cut it to 2-1 at 4:26 into the second period after William Nylander knocked down a Columbus pass and set up Gardiner with a nice circle-to-circle pass.
The Blue Jackets answered with a power-play goal by Cam Atkinson, and Wennberg capped the scoring for Columbus in the third period. Marner then made it 4-2 with about three minutes left.
The Maple Leafs were without top-scorer Auston Matthews, who missed his sixth game with an upper-body injury.
Zach Werenski sat out with an undisclosed injury for Columbus.