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COLUMBUS http://www.officialbluejackets.com/authentic-adidas-david-savard-jersey , Ohio — Columbus Blue Jackets coach John Tortorella chose not to start No. 1 goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky in the season opener, but he’ll be back in his familiar position between the pipes for the home opener against the Carolina Hurricanes on Friday night at Nationwide Arena.Tortorella’s decision to start backup Joonas Korpisalo against the Detroit Red Wings on Thursday night raised some eyebrows, not necessarily that Bobrovsky was out of the lineup but because he’s in the final year of his contract and questions have swirled about his future with the team, even though Tortorella is already tired of hearing them.“Korpi deserves an opportunity,” Tortorella said before the opener. “He had a pretty good camp.”Article continues below ...That carried over into the first game. Korpisalo made 18 saves and Artemi Panarin’s goal in overtime gave the Blue Jackets a 3-2 victory, their seventh straight win over the Red Wings.Bobrovsky wasn’t all that sharp in exhibition games, but the regular season is what counts and the veteran know what it takes to prepare for the long haul of an 82-game marathon.So do his teammates. Back-to-back games might not be the ideal situation to start a season, but Blue Jackets players didn’t seem to mind, especially after winning on the road.“There’s no point in being tired because it’s the first games of the season so you’re still in your best shape Anthony Mantha Jersey ,” center Alexander Wennberg said. “You’ve got to make the best of it.”Winger Cam Atkinson scored a first-period goal and Josh Anderson added one in the second period for the aggressive Blue Jackets, who outshot the Red Wings 39-20.Atkinson became the 11th player in NHL history with a goal in at least five straight season openers. He welcomes the quick turnaround.“I like the fact we get on the road before the home opener,” Atkinson said, according to the team’s website. “I like playing in back-to-back games. Your adrenaline is still there. It’s kind of relaxed. The building is going to be buzzing here.”The Blue Jackets face a team that’s also on the back end of two games in two nights, but the difference for the Hurricanes is they’re playing the second game on the road after a loss. Carolina stumbled out of the gate, falling 2-1 in overtime to the New York Islanders.Carolina rallied to tie with 1:35 left in the third period on a goal by Jordan Staal, but New York’s Josh Bailey responded 43 seconds into overtime to give Barry Trotz a win in his Islanders coaching debut.“We’re planning on playing a lot more than 82 games this year,” Hurricanes captain Justin Williams said. “This was just one. One that didn’t go our way.”The Hurricanes and Blue Jackets are dealing with the loss of several key players at the start of the season.Carolina placed goaltender Scott Darling (lower body) on injured reserve this week and signed former Columbus goalie Curtis McElhinney to back up Petr Mrazek, who was signed July 1 and made his Carolina debut with 18 saves after six seasons with the Red Wings and Philadelphia Flyers.“It’s a setback Darren Helm Jersey , no doubt, but that’s why we got Petr in here,” said Hurricanes coach Rod Brind’Amour, making his Carolina debut along with 2018 No. 2 overall draft pick Andrei Svechnikov (three shots on goal against the Islanders).Carolina also is without center Victor Rask for at least four weeks after he underwent surgery on the fourth and fifth fingers of his right hand. He was placed on the injured non-roster list.The Blue Jackets are missing all-star defenseman Seth Jones for at least the first month of the season and fellow blue-liner Scott Harrington. Jones suffered a knee injury in an exhibition game that forced Tortorella to shuffle his back-end pairings.But he was pleased that defenseman Ryan Murray recovered from a preseason injury to contribute to the opening victory.“Really good news that he’s back,” Tortorella said. “We weren’t expecting it. We’ll see where it goes.” NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Instead of getting down after giving up an embarrassing, early bad-hop goal from center ice, New Jersey Devils goaltender Cory Schneider responded with what might have been his best game of the season.Schneider made 45 saves in stonewalling the Buffalo Sabres and got the benefit of having a game-tying, third-period tally nullified for goaltender interference in leading the Devils to a 3-1 victory on Monday night.“I can’t let one bad goal sink you for the rest of the game http://www.officialredwings.com/authentic-adidas-dylan-larkin-jersey ,” Schneider said. “It was more about fighting my way back and keeping us in the game so that’s what kind of motivated me.”Blake Coleman and Pavel Zacha scored power-play goals as New Jersey won its second straight and for the fourth time in 14 games (4-9-1). Miles Wood added an empty-net goal on a length-of-the-ice shot.The biggest play in this game was the referee’s decision with 13:36 to play to disallow what would have been Sam Reinhart’s second goal of the game.Reinhart seemingly tied the game, putting the rebound of a Jeff Skinner shot into an open net with Schneider on the ice.The Devils didn’t take long to challenge, contending Evan Rodrigues interfered with Schneider, although it seemed New Jersey defenseman Andy Greene was battling with the Buffalo center in the crease.“I totally disagree with it, the call,” Sabres coach Phil Housley said. “He’s (Rodrigues) got his territory in front of the goaltender. We are telling our guys to go to the net. He does the right thing and the guy backs into him. They saw it differently, but I disagree with it.”Even though he was bumped, Schneider was surprised by the reversal.“Never expect it to be overturned and it was, so it’s a great reversal for us Frans Nielsen Jersey Kids ,” he said.Rodrigues seemed stumped.“I was there for five or 10 seconds and I thought I was outside the crease,” Rodrigues said. “Their guy comes and makes a little contact with me. I don’t think I went purposely backward, but there was some contact there and they made the call.”Schneider was outstanding in the final 40 minutes, stopping all 36 Buffalo shots. He stopped Skinner on a breakaway two minutes after the goaltender interference call, and also had a great stop on Tage Thompson on a blast with 2:34 to go.Zacha had broken a 1-all tie at 4:25 of the third period with a shot from the left circle past a screened Linus Ullmark, who had 18 saves.Reinhart tied the score with a goal that stunned the crowd at 7:23. The Buffalo forward flipped the puck from center ice toward Schneider and it took a bad bounce past the embarrassed goaltender.“I was trying to bounce it at the end of the shift trying to get off. I got a lucky bounce,” Reinhart said.“You never want to give up that goal, it’s just brutal and you feel bad for your teammates,” added Schneider Gordie Howe Jersey , who earlier this season tended to let bad goals ruin his night.This time, he ruined the Sabres’ night.“It’s not a good feeling, no other way to put it,” Rodrigues said. “We did things right. We didn’t give them much. We got pucks on net. We pretty much did everything we wanted to except put the puck in the net. It seems that’s the way it has been going these days.”The Devils scored on their first shot of the game when Coleman came out of the corner on a power play and beat Ullmark in close at 1:55.NOTES: Less than 48 hours after sending F Joey Anderson to Binghamton (AHL), the Devils recalled him. He didn’t play. … Sabres recalled D Lawrence Pilut from Rochester (AHL) on Sunday. … Sabres rookie C Casey Mittelstadt, the eighth pick in the draft, was a healthy scratch. … The Devils were 0 for 13 on the power play in the last five games. … Reinhart’s 20 goals are five shy of his career best set last season.UP NEXTSabres: At Ottawa on Tuesday night.Devils: At Detroit on Friday night.