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Adam Hall'ts Jackets Winless Skid with Hattrick

The Columbus Blue Jackets rallied for 4 third period goals to erase a 2-1 deficit and leave St.Louis with a 5-2 win. Adam Hall tallied 3 goals for the Jackets including the game winner. Rick Nash finally got off the schnide, and Dave Scatchard also scored for the visitors. The Blues got tallies from One of their two gods Alexander Ovechkin, and Michel Oullet. Manny Legace was solid for the Jackets turning aside 25 of 27 shots and kept the Jackets in the game for the first period as the Jackets surrendered 16 shots, but escaped the frame dead even. Cory Stillman tallied 2 assists for the Jackets in his first game and assisted on Rick Nash's short handed goal to get the talented Blue Jackets forward on the score sheet for the first time this season. The bad news for the Jackets was Trent Hunter having to leave the game late in the second period. Early diagnoses shows the the tough two way forward will be lost to the Jackets for about a week. The game was the 5th in as many days for the Jackets and tommorrow will be the 6th straight for the Bunch from the Buck eye state as the Leafs come to town, the team will get a much deserved day off, and than face the Colorado Avalanche which will mark the end of a 7 games in 8 day stretch. After that will be two more off days followed by a 3 in 3 stretch.

With a large number of games coming up the Jackets made a move to beef up their immediate goal tending depth, and bring in some help up front. To do this the Jackets had to sacrifice two good young pieces in Matt Stajan, and Pascal Leclaire, as well as the enigmatic but talented Thomas Surovy. "We have a lot of games coming up and we can't rely on Manny to play them all. This is a marathon, not a sprint, and we need to keep him fresh. We hope that Brent can come here and give us some good efforts when we have to rest Manny. We also feel that Cjanek can come in and make some real nice contributions to our team right now. It's a risky move on our part, but hey someone has to try and do something to win."