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COLUMBUS New Jersey Devils Hoodies Authentic , Ohio — The last time the Columbus Blue Jackets played the Los Angeles Kings in early November, they were struggling with consistency.Win one, lose one. Look good one night and bad in the next game. Fast forward a month and the Blue Jackets still haven’t figured out how to be more consistent. Article continues below ...After three humbling losses at home in the last four games, the Blue Jackets will try again Thursday night to start and sustain a streak of success beginning with the Kings at Nationwide Arena.The Blue Jackets (16-12-2) and Kings (11-19-2) both experienced tough losses on Tuesday night.Columbus coughed up 1-0 and 2-1 leads by allowing two goals in the final minutes of a 3-2 loss on home ice to the visiting Vancouver Canucks.A few minutes earlier, the Blue Jackets were feeling good about their chances after forward Oliver Bjorkstrand’s first goal in a month gave them a one-goal lead and seemingly the momentum.The late collapse came after the Blue Jackets were shut out on Saturday night by the Washington Capitals after opening a stretch of seven of eight games at home with a 9-6 loss to the Calgary Flames on Dec. 4.“That’s the rub now is we play the right way but we didn’t get a result,” Blue Jackets coach John Tortorella said, according to the team’s website. “Can we stay with our concentration here and stay with the things we have to do? Because we made some great corrections in our game to get it back to how we should be playing, but we didn’t get the result.“We have to be able to do it (Thursday) night and keep on working at that part of it New Jersey Devils Hats Authentic , and hopefully the results start coming our way.” Los Angeles lost the second game of a back-to-back on the road, falling 4-3 in overtime to the Buffalo Sabres. The Kings have gone 0-2 on a four-game trip that ends Saturday night in Pittsburgh and 1-3-1 in their last five games overall.To make matters worse for the Kings, players keep going down. Defensemen Drew Doughty and Dion Phaneuf left Tuesday’s game with upper-body injuries and didn’t return. Phaneuf flew back to Los Angeles for evaluation.Doughty has played in 360 consecutive games, a franchise record, but Kings coach Willie Desjardins on Tuesday night listed Doughty as day-to-day. His absence would be felt.“Not only is he a big-time leader, he’s one of the best defensemen in the game, and he eats a lot of minutes,” Kings goaltender Cal Petersen said of Doughty. ” … losing him Custom New Jersey Devils Jerseys , (he’s) a huge part of our team.”Kings defenseman Alec Martinez didn’t make the trip because of an upper-body injury and was placed on injured reserve Wednesday. Also sidelined are forwards Kyle Clifford, Jonny Brodzinski, Carl Hagelin, Ilya Kovalchuk and Trevor Lewis, and goaltender Jack Campbell.Kings defenseman Jake Muzzin was forced to carry a heavy load, finishing with 30 minutes of ice time and contributing a goal and an assist against the Sabres.“Every time he goes out he plays hard and he gives us both offense and defense,” Desjardins said. “A lot of times guys see him as an offensive defenseman, but he can do it all and he’s a big guy and he loves to play www.officialislanders.com , and he’s got such a good attitude around the locker room as well.”An injury also knocked a Blue Jackets player out of the game on Tuesday. Forward Josh Anderson is considered as day-to-day with an upper-body injury after he crashed headfirst into the post.Anderson didn’t practice Wednesday and Tortorella said Bjorkstrand would take Anderson’s place on a line with Boone Jenner and Nick Foligno.Sergei Bobrovsky will be back in goal for the Blue Jackets after getting Tuesday night off. SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) Brent Burns makes things difficult when he’s only playing one position in a game. Switching positions during the game makes it even harder.Burns and Chris Tierney each had a goal and an assist, and the San Jose Sharks beat the Vancouver Canucks 4-1 on Thursday night for their third win in four games.Mikkel Boedker and Marcus Sorensen also scored for the Sharks, who improved to 3-0-1 against the Canucks this season. Martin Jones stopped 43 shots.Article continues below ...Burns lined up as a wing during the first period but was a defenseman when he scored in the second period.”It’s fun to play hockey in the NHL. It doesn’t matter where,” Burns said. ”I don’t mind switching back and forth. It’s all chemistry and the way you mesh together.”Burns said he learned about playing forward from Joe Thornton and Joe Pavelski and that he constantly works on his game to fine-tune things.”He’s a heck of a player,” Canucks coach Travis Green said. ”To be able to throw him all over the place … there’s a reason he’s one of the best players in the league. He’s the whole package. He’s got good vision. He’s got a hammer of a shot. He doesn’t just shoot the puck; he gets it through. And he’s hard to forecheck. He’s just a really good player.”Daniel Sedin scored for the Canucks, who have lost six of seven. Anders Nilsson made 26 stops.”We have to try and be more consistent with our game no matter what the score is or how things are bouncing,” the Canucks’ Bo Horvat said. ”We have to stick with the process and I thought we did a good job of that tonight. A couple of breakdowns and it cost us.”Boedker scored at 8:41 of the first period New York Islanders T-Shirts Authentic , picking up a soft rebound from Tierney’s shot.Burns scored his 10th goal, tops among NHL defensemen, taking a pass from Joakim Ryan and sending a laser shot into the net just under five minutes into the second.”He’s got the best shot in the league by any defenseman,” Ryan said. ”He has an unbelievable shot and he’s responsible defensively.”Sorensen scored his first goal since Dec. 23, punching it in with an assist from Justin Braun at 3:06 into the third. Marc-Edouard Vlasic had an assist in his third straight game, getting the second assist on Sorensen’s goal.Sedin scored at 6:43, taking a nice pass from Thomas Vanek that gave him clear shot into the net. It was Sedin’s 14th goal, one shy of his total last season.”I thought we generated a lot of good opportunities New York Islanders Hoodies Authentic , a lot of shots, a lot of chances,” Horvat said. ”We didn’t spend a lot of time in our own end.”Tierney made it 4-1 after taking a nice pass from Burns with 7 1/2 minutes remaining.NOTES: D Tim Heed was recalled from the AHL and joined a makeshift Sharks lineup, allowing Burns to play up front at times. … Sharks C Logan Couture has points in four of his last five games. … Sedin has five points against the Sharks this season and 45 in 69 games. He’s recorded points in three straight. … The Canucks recorded a season high in shots.UP NEXTCanucks: Host Boston on Saturday.Sharks: Host Dallas on Sunday.