COLUMBUS Improved Blue Jackets do well under pressure



The 4-3 win over Nashville was the team's second straight in comeback style.
COLUMBUS (AP) -- The improved Columbus Blue Jackets are picking up points in pressure situations.
David Vyborny scored the second of his two goals with 1:23 remaining to give the Blue Jackets a 4-3 comeback victory over the Nashville Predators on Saturday night.
"Nasher [Rick Nash] found me and I just tried to put it upstairs," Vyborny said. "We're playing different from the beginning of the season. If we would have gotten down a few goals we wouldn't have come back."
Nash and Duvie Westcott also scored for Columbus, which came from behind to win for the second night in a row.
Gaining trust
"There's immense trust and confidence in our ability to come back in any game," said goalie Marc Denis, who had 24 saves and has won eight of his last 10 starts.
Rostislav Klesla had three assists and Jan Hrdina added two for Columbus, which has won eight of its last 11.
Scott Hartnell, Adam Hall and Yanic Perreault scored power-play goals for Nashville, which had won their last four against the Blue Jackets.
"We used all four lines," Predators coach Barry Trotz said. "I thought if we would have went to overtime it would have really benefited us, but it never got there."
With Columbus trailing 3-2, Westcott scored a short-handed goal late in the second period.
On the winning goal, Nash muscled past two Predators defenders behind the net and then, on his knees, slid a pass to Vyborny, who beat Tomas Vokoun for his 15th goal.
Columbus had a 2-0 lead before Nashville scored three times.
"We played a solid first period," Columbus coach Gerard Gallant said.
After Klesla's rush into the Predators' end, Hrdina centered the puck from behind the net. Vyborny accidentally deflected the puck off his own skate and in at 8:43 of the first.
Shortly after a 29-second, two-man advantage expired, Sergei Fedorov's pass from the right circle found Nash alone at the back post. Nash simply let the puck carom off his stick and in for his 14th goal.