The Columbus Blue Jackets are off the Schneid

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Two Boone Jenner goals to get them off and running and 31 Seregei Bobrovsky saves, and the Blue Jackets are finally in the win column after a Saturday night 4-3 win in Colorado.

"We're not going to do it overnight," Dubinsky said. "We played some good hockey tonight. We took some penalties and put ourselves in a little bit of trouble, but we didn't quit. It's an effort we were accustomed to before this year started and it was nice to get back to that.

"You celebrate it. It's been a while since we've had this type of feeling in the dressing room, so we'll celebrate it."

Jarome Iginla scored and had a real nice game, also adding an assist and ending up +1 to be the third star of the game. Ryan Murray added a goal and an assist for the Blue Jackets.  

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When I first began to get into hockey as an adult, Jarome Iginla was the player I think I most enjoyed watching. This was before Sid the Kid burst on the scene, and the Flames were in a Stanley Cup Finals battle with these same Lightning.

Iginla was dominating, scoring at will and creating opportunities on the shot, as well as drawing in penalties and mismatches. Any hockey fan knows what Iginla can do and how dangerous of a player he really is. I think he's the best pure scorer in hockey all things considered at this time. Tonight he scored 3 goals and added an assist.

If you play fantasy hockey, and I don't; this was a game of interest. Nearly every guy who found the ice filled his stat sheet. Vinny Lecavalier had a goal and 2 assists to pad his league lead over Crosby. Dion Phaneuf had 5 assists. This was a game that simply had to go on record on this blog, because it is the first extremely high scoring competition since Light the Lamp was born.

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