Quotebook: Blue Jackets Fall To Flyers In Overtime Thriller

By Sam Blazer on February 17, 2018 at 1:55 am
Seth Jones tries to skate away from the Flyers' Jakub Voracek
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After a loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs, the Columbus Blue Jackets fell once again. This time they lost in overtime by a score of 2-1.

They didn't put up 50 shots for the fourth straight game, but they did outshoot the Flyers and gained a sizeable territorial advantage against them.

Here's the reaction post game from John Tortorella and company.

John Tortorella

On the Blue Jackets game and level of play: "We get a point because of the play of 'Bob.' I don't have an answer for ya, how we can play with that type of energy and that type of execution in an important game like this. No idea."

On finding a way to win against the tougher teams in the league: "This is a structure team. But we have to learn to play against teams that play with structure. We're going to have to play against teams that check tight. It's going to get tighter and tighter as each game goes by here, so I have no idea why we end up throwing something like that out there on the ice tonight."

Sergei Bobrovsky

On how he felt in net against the Flyers: "I felt pretty good. I saw the puck really well, so I thought I (worked) hard and, well, we got one point still and we move on."

On getting into the zone and finding a rhythm: "At this time of the year, you play (your best) against anybody, any team, you know? That's the time when you need the points so bad, and you have to be at your best."

David Savard

On at least getting a point from the game: "I think we played better in the third (period). I think the first two periods we played into their hands too much. We've got to find ways to play our game and not let them set the pace, but in the third, we got a lucky bounce there to at least get a point."

On the strategy of putting pucks to the net: "We talked between the second and third (period) saying we haven't played our best game. But we were still right in it because of Bob. So we kind of put it in the past and move forward. I think we created way more in the third and we just gotta play that game for the full sixty minutes."

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