Alexandre Texier scored the shootout’s only goal on a brilliant, one-handed shot in the fourth round Thursday to lead the Columbus Blue Jackets to a 3-2 win and hand the visiting Florida Panthers their first defeat.
After Florida goalie Chris Driedger stopped Cam Atkinson, Oliver Bjorkstrand and Max Domi, Texier pushed a one-hander between Driedger’s pads. Columbus goalie Elvis Merzlikins then stuffed Patric Hornqvist to preserve the win. 
It was the first career attempt in a shootout for third-year center Texier, 21. Merzlikins also denied Anthony Duclair, Jonathan Huberdeau and Frank Vatrano to improve to 2-1-1 with the win.
Mikko Koivu scored his first goal for Columbus, Domi tallied on the power play and Merzlikins stopped 33 of 35 shots for the Blue Jackets, who earned points for the sixth straight game (3-0-3). A native of Columbus, Jack Roslovic made his Blue Jackets debut by centering the third line after being acquired from Winnipeg on Saturday along with Patrik Laine for center Pierre-Luc Dubois. Florida’s Carter Verhaeghe and Eetu Loustarinen scored goals, Duclair produced his team-leading fifth assist and Driedger made 29 saves on 31 shots. Defenseman Markus Nutivaara, who played the past four seasons for Columbus, had an assist in his Florida debut, while Panthers right winger Brett Connolly played in his 500th NHL game.
On Tuesday in the teams’ first meeting, the Blue Jackets led early and late, gave up the game-tying goal with three seconds remaining and lost 4-3 in a five-round shootout on Hornqvist’s game winner. Two days later, Koivu won a board battle in the defensive end, then was rewarded when he received a pass from Eric Robinson, who circled behind Driedger’s net and fed the puck from the right side through the blue paint.
Trailing down the left side, Koivu – acquired in the offseason after playing 15 seasons for the Minnesota Wild – drilled the game’s first marker at 17:03 of the first period. Also a former member of the Blue Jackets, Duclair intercepted Texier’s outlet pass late in the second, put a shot on Merzlikins and Verhaeghe scored on the put-back to tie it at 1 at 17:14. Domi scored his first as a Blue Jacket on Columbus’ second power-play, firing home the go-ahead goal just five seconds into a man advantage at 6:19 of the third. He won the faceoff and took a pass from Zach Werenski. Loustarinen tied it at 2 when he scored for the second time this season on a rebound at 12:56.

Christian Dvorak scores twice as Coyotes trim Ducks
Christian Dvorak scored his second goal of the game with 4:26 remaining to lift the Arizona Coyotes to a 3-2 win against the Anaheim Ducks on Thursday night in Glendale, Arizona. Conor Garland also scored, and Darcy Kuemper made 14 saves for Arizona, which was shut out 1-0 in each of their previous two straight games.
Jakob Silfverberg and Danton Heinen scored, and John Gibson made 31 saves for Anaheim, which has been held to two goals or fewer in seven of eight games this season. The Ducks killed a 5-on-3 that lasted 28 seconds, but Dvorak scored with 17 seconds remaining on the second penalty for the 3-2 lead. Anaheim was the only team in the NHL without a power-play goal until Heinen scored with the man advantage to tie the score 2-2 at 8:57 of the third period. Heinen also scored in the 1-0 win against the Coyotes on Tuesday.
Garland was credited with the goal that gave the Coyotes a 2-1 lead 52 seconds into the third period.
Garland spun away from Cam Fowler along the left wall, giving him room to center a pass to Clayton Keller. The puck went off the stick of Ducks defenseman Jani Hakanpaa and into the net. The Ducks scored first for the third straight game  Arizona had the puck behind its own net and Jordan Gross tried to pass the puck through the slot to Nick Schmaltz, but it was intercepted by Silfverberg, who quickly shot the puck over Kuemper’s glove for a 1-0 lead.