RALEIGH Adidas Matt Read Jersey , N.C. — The Columbus Blue Jackets have shown they have plenty in reserve.How much they’ll need against the Carolina Hurricanes will be one of the questions for Saturday night’s game at PNC Arena.The Blue Jackets excelled with a somewhat makeshift lineup in its latest game when illness spread to some team members.Article continues below ...“There’s opportunities for different guys,” left winger Anthony Duclair said of the lineup alterations. “Everybody did a great job and all four lines were rolling.”That came in Thursday night’s 7-3 home victory against the Florida Panthers.The result means the Blue Jackets arrive with a six-game points streak for this matchup between Metropolitan Division teams.While Columbus is riding a bit of a high, at least on the ice, the Hurricanes are trying to get things turned around.They have been off since Monday’s overtime victory against the Chicago Blackhawks, providing only their second victory in an eight-game stretch.“We haven’t (won) a lot lately,” said Hurricanes center Sebastian Aho, who scored the winner in the latest outing. “We have to find a way to get wins.”Aho had gone 12 games without a goal even though he leads the Hurricanes with 22 points.“I know when I’m playing good,” Aho said. “You get a few goals, you get some confidence.”How much of the firepower is available for the Blue Jackets might not be determined until closer to game time. The status of forwards Riley Nash and Artemi Panarin and goalie Sergei Bobrovsky is notable because they missed Thursday night’s game because of illness.Even Columbus coach John Tortorella was under the weather, skipping his normal postgame media session on a night when there would have been plenty of positives to discuss.Despite all the offense getting attention Adidas Matt Hendricks Jersey , Columbus goalie Joonas Korpisalo provided some of the spark.“The only job is to get the puck out of the net,” said Korpisalo, who made 35 saves. “I just have to make saves. I’m happy when we score seven.”For the division-leading Blue Jackets on a night when they weren’t a full strength, they could point to Korpisalo as providing some of the energy with his stops.“He got the bench going,” Blue Jackets forward Brandon Dubinsky said.The Hurricanes hope to see success on special teams extend into the next game. They’ve been largely miserable on power plays, but they scored their two regulation goals in the Chicago game with the extra man.Coach Rod Brind’Amour said this ought to be one way for the Hurricanes to realize the value of the production on special teams because it led directly to a positive result.The Hurricanes can also point to goaltending as an area that needs to come around. Hurricanes goalie Scott Darling has played in the past two games and might be rounding into form after missing the first couple of weeks of the season with an injury.“We need saves at times when we breakdown,” Brind’Amour said. “Keep the team in the game when we need it.”Columbus won 3-1 in an Oct. 5 home game against Carolina. EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) After Edmonton scored the first three goals of the game, the Columbus Blue Jackets made it apparent which team was still fighting for a playoff spot and which team was already out of the race.Thomas Vanek had three goals and an assist to lift the Blue Jackets over the Oilers 7-3 on Tuesday night.”We were down 3-0, but it didn’t feel like it because it was just a couple of dumb mistakes that cost us Adidas Eric Fehr Jersey ,” Vanek said. ”We felt fine about our game going into the game and even being down 3-0 we felt OK. We showed a lot of character and it was a big two points again.”Artemi Panarin, Boone Jenner, Cam Atkinson and Markus Nutivaara also scored for the Blue Jackets, who have won 11 of 12. Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 22 shots.”We just kept pushing and at the end of the day we played a really good game, I think,” said Columbus forward Alexander Wennberg, who ended the night with a plus-six rating.Connor McDavid had a goal and two assists, and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Drake Caggiula also scored for the Oilers, who have lost two straight. Cam Talbot stopped 13 of 18 shots before being replaced by Laurent Brossoit.”It was awful, horrible Adidas Greg Pateryn Jersey ,” McDavid said of his team’s collapse. ”We had the good start (tonight) and then the game just went right back to where we were at during the start of the year. It’s disappointing as we had been pretty good of late.”Edmonton got on the board 3:37 into the first period when a mix-up behind the net between Bobrovsky and Nutivaara allowed McDavid to steal the puck and send it out front to Nugent-Hopkins for his 22nd of the season. McDavid picked up his 100th point, tying his league-leading total from last year.Linesman Steve Barton was stretchered off following a collision with McDavid in the first period. Columbus’ Zach Werenski ran into McDavid and sent him flying into Barton, who hit his head hard on the ice. Sportsnet reported that Barton was taken to a hospital, where he was able to speak with doctors and move all extremities.McDavid scored a short-handed goal later in the period, his career-high 40th of the season. He’s the first Oilers player to hit the mark since Petr Klima did it in 1991.Edmonton made it 3-0 on the power play midway through the first when Caggiula blasted a puck top corner past Bobrovsky.Columbus came roaring back with a pair of goals within a minute, as Vanek’s shot caromed off a defender and past Talbot, and then Panarin scored his 26th on a rebound.Vanek tipped in his 23rd of the season off a shot by David Savard with 3:20 left.Jenner put Columbus ahead with a goal 1:38 into the second, and Atkinson and Vanek followed to make it a blowout. Nutivaara piled on with a goal in the third.UP NEXTBlue Jackets: Play at Calgary on Thursday night.Oilers: Play at Vancouver on Thursday night.—