Behind The Box Score

How sweet it is! The Blue Jackets clinched a playoff spot last night, by just making it to overtime against the Blackhawks, and eventually they won in the shootout to seal it up, 4-3. I watched it last night on a nice little site that I Googled before the game, and found that I could watch the game live and free. This is the site that redirected me to it: http://www.hockeywebcasts.com/

The win last night gave us our first playoff birth ever. We were the only NHL team that had never made the playoffs in the expansion era. Hopefully, playoff tickets aren’t too tough to get, this could be one special run if the Jackets get hot and make a quest to get deep into the playoffs. I watched the first period in disgust last night, as they got behind 2-0, with one of those goals coming from Nash, in a sense. However, he made up for it by getting the assist  on the Jackets second goal of the game, a goal which tied it up at 2. They trailed going into the third however, 3-2.

A Nash goal tied it up at 3, and then the Jackets coasted into OT, getting the desired point to clunch a playoff spot. They survived a furious chance by Chicago at the end of OT just to force a shootout. Mason saved three SO chances to seal the deal, and the Jackets got to 92, and to the playoffs. Finally, after 9 years, we’re in the Stanley Cup Playoffs.