EDMONTON, Alberta — Brad Larsen couldn’t help himself. The opportunity for sarcasm was placed on a tee at the Blue Jackets’ morning skate Wednesday with a question about facing “the best player in the world,” at Rogers Place and the second-year head coach crushed it. “Well, you’ve got to be focused and sharp,” he began. “And … I think you’re talking about McDavid, right? Yeah, well, Draisaitl’s not bad either. Nugent-Hopkins. You can go through their lineup and there’s some pretty dangerous guys.” Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and the Edmonton Oilers are indeed “some pretty dangerous guys,” on a hockey rink and the Blue Jackets were challenged with containing them in the second leg of a road trip to Western Canada and Seattle. Thanks to goalie Joonas Korpisalo’s 34 saves and huge goals by rookies Kirill Marchenko and Kent Johnson, they cleared a tall hurdle with a 3-2 overtime victory that snapped Edmonton’s six-game winning streak. “You start to believe in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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