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COLUMBUS http://www.blackhawksshoponline.com/authentic-artem-anisimov-jersey , Ohio (AP) The Columbus Blue Jackets are starting to look in front of them to see who they can catch.Only a week ago, Columbus was simply aiming at hanging onto the final Eastern Conference wild-card playoff spot and hoping some teams behind in the standings would help out.A 3-2 win over Detroit on Friday night, their fourth straight, put the Blue Jackets in the first wild-card spot with a one-point lead over New Jersey and just two points behind Philadelphia for third place in the Metropolitan Division.Seth Jones scored twice in the second period and Sergei Bobrovsky returned from an illness to make 22 saves as the Blue Jackets beat the Red Wings to sweep a back-to-back. They have won six of the last eight.”We always talked about how we just want to make sure we’re hitting our stride at the right time,” Columbus captain Nick Foligno said. ”We’ve got a little ways to go, but we feel more and more confident about our game as we get closer to the stuff that really matters. That’s kind of always been our focus.”Jones got his tallies after winning Thursday night’s game against Colorado with a goal 59 seconds into overtime.”The puck’s just going in,” shrugged the 23-year-old defenseman, who has 13 goals and 33 assists. ”You get stretches like that. Sometimes it goes in and sometimes you go 15 to 20 games without a point. That’s just the way hockey is. It’s a good time for me to be producing right now in the situation we’re in.”Columbus coach John Tortorella gives him way more credit than that.”He’s had a hell of a year offensively Brandon Saad Jersey , but the most important part about Jonsesy’s game is becoming a leader,” Tortorella said. ”He doesn’t say too much during the game, but just the way he carries himself right now, he knows he’s part of that leadership group. All facets of the game, he just keeps improving.”Darren Helm and Andreas Athanasiou scored, and Jared Coreau, in just his second start of the season, had 33 stops for the reeling Red Wings Brent Seabrook Jersey Kids , losers of six straight.The Blue Jackets started with a short-handed goal near the end of the first period when Alexander Wennberg carried the puck around the back of the net and chipped it out to Calvert, who poked it by Coreau.The lead didn’t last long. Just 21 seconds later, Helm caught Bobrovsky leaning the wrong way and got an easy goal to make it 1-1.Columbus went back up early in the second period when Jones rifled in a shot from the left circle off a sweet cross-ice pass from Artemi Panarin. Jones struck again at 8:15 when he put back Boone Jenner’s rebound.”As the game went along, they started to grind us a little bit and we had trouble getting out of our end too many times,” Detroit coach Jeff Blashill said.Athanasiou beat Bobrovsky between the pads late in the third period to make it a one-goal game. Helm had a potential tying shot in the final seconds, but Bobrovsky made a nifty save to preserve the win.NOTES: Jones has five goals and five assists in the last eight games. … Panarin has seven points in his last four games. … Bobrovsky missed two games with illness during which backup Joonas Korpisalo picked up a pair of wins. … Healthy scratches for Columbus included D Scott Harrington, D Taylor Chorney, F Markus Hannikainen and F Lukas Sedlak. … Detroit F Frans Nielsen missed his second game with an injury. Other scratches for the Red Wings included F David Booth and D Xavier Ouellet.UP NEXTDetroit: Plays at San Jose on Monday.Columbus: Hosts Montreal on Monday.—Follow Mitch Stacy at http://twitter.com/mitchstacy— CHICAGO (AP) Patrick Kane scored a tie-breaking power-play goal with 3:16 left in the third period and had an assist Youth Corey Crawford Jersey , and the Chicago Blackhawks beat the Boston Bruins 3-1 on Sunday afternoon.Kane scored on a screened shot from just inside the left point to put Chicago ahead 2-1 with Boston’s Zdeno Chara off for high-sticking Brandon Saad, getting a double-minor for drawing blood. Brent Seabrook added a goal from the right circle on a screened shot with 1:05 remaining as the Blackhawks ended Boston’s six-game winning streak and their own two-game slide.Chicago’s Artem Anisimov scored his 20th goal, reaching that mark for the third straight season since the Blackhawks acquired him from Columbus. Anton Forsberg made 31 saves, and Jonathan Toews had three assists.Chara scored his seventh goal, tying the game 1-1 midway through the third period. Boston back-up Anton Khudobin stopped 36 shots.The Bruins played without leading scorer Brad Marchand, who sat out with an upper-body injury.Marchand, who has a team-high 29 goals and 69 points – five goals and six assists in his last five games – collided with Blackhawks forward Anthony Duclair in the first period of Saturday’s contest between the teams in Boston.Duclair had to be helped off the ice, favoring his right leg Womens Duncan Keith Jersey , and is expected to miss up to two weeks. according to coach Joel Quenneville.Marchand continued in the game, playing just over 20 minutes and finishing with two assists in the Bruins’ 7-4 victory.After Boston rallied against Chicago with four goals in third period Saturday, the Blackhawks bounced back with a tighter effort.Chicago allowed a season-high four power-play goals in Boston, but the Blackhawks struck first on the man advantage in this one. Parked at the edge of the crease, Anisimov tipped in Jonathan Toews’ drive from the right circle for the only goal of the first period.Both teams narrowly missed on prime chances in the scoreless second. Chicago rookie Alex DeBrincat’s shot glanced off Khudobin, then struck both posts. About 90 seconds later, Boston’s Nick Holden fired the puck from the slot through the legs of teammate Rick Nash and off the right post.Forsberg stopped David Pastrnak point-blank on a breakaway at 8:35. Khudobin denied Saad from close range after he powered down the slot with just under five minutes left in the period.Forsberg blocked a deflection by Nash 4:30 into the third, then stopped the Boston forward at the edge of the crease with a pad save later in the same shift.Chara tied it midway in the third period on the Bruins’ 28th shot. The big defenseman fired from the slot after taking David Krejci’s centering pass and beat Forsberg on the glove side.NOTES: Quenneville didn’t rule out a return for No. 1 goalie Corey Crawford this season. Crawford http://www.blackhawksshoponline.com/authentic-gustav-forsling-jersey , out since Dec. 23 with an upper-body injury, continues to work out off the ice. . Boston C Patrice Bergeron missed his seventh game with a fractured right foot. . Bruins F David Backes served his final game of a three-game suspension. . Chicago F Vinnie Hinostroza returned after missing Saturday’s game due to a family emergency. . Before the game the Blackhawks recognized Kendall Coyne and Alex Rigsby, Chicago-area natives who were members of the gold medal-winning U.S. Olympic women’s hockey team. Both suited up and were on the ice for the national anthem.UP NEXTBruins:At Carolina on Tuesday in the second game for a four-game trip.Blackhawks: At Winnipeg on Thursday.