COLUMBUS, Ohio — Following the morning skate before the Blue Jackets’ home opener on Monday vs. the New Jersey Devils, head coach Dean Evason felt his penalty kill had played well despite allowing four goals in a 7-4 win at Minnesota on Saturday.

“Did we make a couple mistakes? Yeah,” Evason told reporters. “What, we were on it, eight times? That’s a lot of penalty kill, right?

“It’s not an excuse. We got to get better. We got to keep the puck out of the net on the penalty kill, but it’s not a structural thing. We think that it’ll correct itself here moving forward.”

Those corrections didn’t come in Monday night’s 3-2 loss to the Devils.

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