Jet Greaves made 36 saves for the Columbus Blue Jackets, helping them to a 6-1 win against the visiting New York Islanders on Thursday in the regular-season finale for both teams.
Greaves, a 24-year-old rookie, won his final five starts, allowing four goals in that span.
Cole Sillinger and Zach Werenski each had a goal and an assist, while Dante Fabbro, Dmitri Voronkov, Sean Kuraly and Adam Fantilli also scored for the Blue Jackets (40-33-9, 89 points), who finished two points out of a playoff spot after winning their final six games.
Hudson Fasching scored and Marcus Hogberg made 20 saves for the Islanders (35-35-12, 82 points), who lost five of their final six (1-3-2).
Up against a New York lineup without three of its top four defensemen, the Blue Jackets scored five goals in the second period and had another called back.
Columbus took a 1-0 lead at 2:21 when Sillinger capitalized on a turnover and skated in alone before scoring with a wrist shot from the inside edge of the left circle.
The Blue Jackets made it 2-0 at 7:43 when Fabbro scored with a wrist shot from above the right circle and along the wall.
Columbus stretched the lead to 3-0 at 10:09 when Werenski’s centering pass through the crease went off the stick blade of Islanders defenseman Scott Perunovich, off the skate of Voronkov and across the goal line.
A fourth goal was disallowed after it was deflected into the net with a high stick, but the next one counted for the Blue Jackets when Kuraly scored with a wrist shot from the top of the right circle off the rush for a 4-0 lead at 15:14.
Werenski made it 5-0 at 17:27 when he finished off a 3-on-1 rush with a one-timer from the right circle off a feed from Sean Monahan.
Greaves came within 5:13 of his second straight shutout, but Fasching scored with a wrist shot from the right hash marks to cut it to 5-1.
The goal ended Greaves’ shutout streak at 173:38, the fourth longest in franchise history.
Fantilli scored his 31st goal of the season with 1:23 left to reestablish a five-goal lead.
–Field Level Media
