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COLUMBUS Ottawa Senators T-Shirts Authentic , Ohio (AP) — The evening started just fine for the reeling Los Angeles Kings, who scored first on the road against the Columbus Blue Jackets. But it went downhill from there for the visitors.Columbus, which hasn’t won at home since Nov. 29, answered quickly and Sergei Bobrovsky denied the Kings the rest of the way as the Blue Jackets cruised to a 4-1 win on Thursday night.Lukas Sedlak got his first goal of the season — his first in 53 games dating to last Dec. 20 — and Artemi Panarin ended a personal five-game goal drought with two tallies as the Blue Jackets snapped a two-game losing streak. Coming into the game, they had lost four of the last five.“I think we needed a bounce-back game,” said Columbus winger Josh Anderson Ottawa Senators Hoodies Authentic , who scored the last of two Blue Jackets goals in a 20-second span of the second period. “We all were expecting it tonight.”Bobrovsky stopped 29 shots, and Cam Atkinson had assists on both Panarin goals for the Blue Jackets, who held on to second place in the Metropolitan Division, three points behind Washington.Dustin Brown had the lone goal and Jonathan Quick had 37 saves for the injury-ravaged Kings, who have lost three in a row and seven of their last nine while languishing at the bottom of the Pacific Division.Poor special teams play continued to plague the Kings, who gave up a power-play goal and failed to take advantage of the man-advantage three times.“We have to be a lot better if we want to win games in this league Ottawa Senators Hats Authentic ,” Los Angeles center Jeff Carter said. “That’s the bottom line here. We need to have more from everybody, myself included.”The Kings took the lead thanks to Brown’s tap-in goal 3:54 into the game.Sedlak found the back of the net two minutes later, getting a nice feed from Oliver Bjorkstrand at the goal line and poking it past Quick.“It was about time,” said Sedlak, who was a healthy scratch for the past two games.Halfway through the first, Panarin snapped a shot over the goalie’s shoulder from just inside the left circle to give Columbus a 2-1 lead.Panarin connected again late in the second period on the power play. He was in the right place at the right time to finish when a hard one-timer from Seth Jones was blocked but bounded right out to him in the left circle. Jones got his 200th career NHL point with the assist.Anderson scored 20 seconds later from almost the same spot to make it 4-1 Custom Ottawa Senators Jerseys , and both teams played a scoreless third period.“They were creating way too much,” Los Angeles coach Willie Desjardins said. “(Quick) was great in net, made a number of great saves for us and gave us a chance to stay in it, but we didn’t do it.”NOTES: Columbus D David Savard got his 100th career NHL point with an assist on Anderson’s goal. … L.A. D Drew Doughty extended his franchise record consecutive games streak to 361. … Kings D Dion Phaneuf suffered an upper-body injury against Buffalo on Tuesday and flew back to Los Angeles for evaluation. … The Kings recalled D Daniel Brickley from Ontario on Wednesday when D Alec Martinez was placed on injured reserve, retroactive to Dec. 8. … Anthony Duclair was scratched to make room for Sedlak. … Columbus is 9-0 on Thursday nights this season.UP NEXT:Los Angeles: At Pittsburgh on Saturday.Columbus: Hosts Anaheim on Saturday. History shows Cam聽Ward to be the Conn Smythe Trophy winner of the 2006 playoffs at age 22, when the Carolina Hurricanes won their first and only NHL championship. But let鈥檚 not forget the circumstances surrounding his ascendancy.Ward was a rookie netminder with an .882 save percentage in 28 games that year and the backup to the more experienced Martin Gerber. But when Gerber faltered in the opening series against Montreal www.officialflyersproshop.com , Ward was thrust into the spotlight. He entered Game 3 in Montreal with his team down two games and promptly held the fort in a 2-1 overtime victory. After scoring 12 times in the first two games, the Habs couldn鈥檛 muster more than two goals a game the rest of the series, and the Canes were rolling.While he shared the crease with Gerber against Buffalo in the conferen... All-Access +All-Access Member AreaPremium content and in-depth analysis from our team of experts exclusively for magazine subscribers. Simply login to unlock the content or become a member for less than $2.50 a month.LoginBecome a Member