Coach, players not thrilled despite record 13th win

As Blue Jackets coach John Tortorella stepped to the podium late Tuesday night, he fired an opening salvo before the questions even started flying.
“This is going to be pretty short, I’ll tell you that right now,” Tortorella said.
The Blue Jackets had just won their 13th consecutive game, blowing a 3-0 lead against the Boston Bruins before rescuing it with a late power-play goal to win 4-3 before a standing-room-only crowd of 19,005 in Nationwide Arena.
But nobody was all that pleased.
“That wasn’t very pretty,” left wing Matt Calvert said.
“I’m sure we’re going to address some things in practice today,” left wing Scott Hartnell said.
“It was pretty sloppy for the most part,” defenseman Seth Jones said. “We didn’t play the best hockey game, but we found a way to win it.”
Calvert, Hartnell and Jones each scored a goal, but it was Nick Foligno’s jam-job goal from the doorstep at 10:46 of the third period that pushed the Blue Jackets to victory.
The Jackets were outshot 40-22 by the Bruins, and they leaned hard again on goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky, who finished with 37 saves.
Only five times in the NHL’s 99-year history have teams had winning streaks of longer than 13 games. The NHL record is 17 straight wins by Pittsburgh in 1993.
But this was perhaps the Blue Jackets’ most peculiar win since the streak began on November 29.
They raced to a 3-0 lead only 9:39 into the game, simply overwhelming the Bruins by hounding the puck.
“We came out pretty hot, but then we stepped back,” Jones said. “We stopped playing a simple game and it gave them momentum.”
For the final 10 minutes of the first period and throughout the second, the Bruins outshot the Blue Jackets 26-8 and scrapped their way back into it.
Mostly, they feasted on Blue Jackets turnovers and pucks that weren’t buried deep enough, creating most of their opportunities in transition. David Krejci’s goal at 18:26 of the second tied the score at 3.
Foligno’s 11th goal of the season kept the streak alive. A slick pass from Alexander Wennberg on the doorstep allowed Foligno to spin and jam the puck home after his first attempt was stuffed by Bruins goaltender Tuukka Rask.
“The way it started, we were like ‘Here we go again!’” Foligno said. “And maybe that was the problem. That’s a really good team over there, and they remain patient.
“It’s a good lesson for us. We could make every excuse, but it wasn’t good enough and we know it.”
True to his word, Tortorella’s postgame briefing was, well, brief: 91 seconds. He wasn’t angry, he just wanted to move on already.
“We will put (the points) in the bank,” Tortorella said. “It was a slop-fest.
“I lit a match to the tape already. It’s done. It’s burned. Seriously, we’re not even going to look at it.”
The Blue Jackets will go for win No. 14 in a row today in Winnipeg.
“It’s fun,” Hartnell said. “But the mental aspect of it around our dressing room ... we’re not on Cloud 9, we’re not celebrating, we’re not on the way to the playoffs.”

RESULTS
San Jose 3 Anaheim 2 (OT)
Calgary 6 Colorado 3
Dallas 3 Arizona 2
Winnipeg 3 Chicago 1
Minnesota 3 Nashville 2 (OT)
Buffalo 4 Detroit 3
Pittsburgh 5 New Jersey 2
NY Islanders 4 Washington 3
NY Rangers 4 Ottawa 3
Columbus 4 Boston 3