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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The Columbus Blue Jackets won another game with a strong finish.Jack Johnson, Cam Atkinson and Seth Jones each had a goal and an assist as the Blue Jackets beat the New York Islanders 6-2 for their sixth straight win.Josh Anderson, Brandon Saad and Lukas Sedlak also scored for Columbus and Sergei Bobrovsky had 25 saves.Ive never been on a team thats been in this position at this point of the year, Johnson said of his teams surge. And Ive been in the league 10 years. You really appreciate it when youre having a season like this.Josh Bailey and John Tavares scored for New York, which had earned a point in a season-high five straight games (4-0-1). Jaroslav Halak made 32 saves until he was pulled after the Blue Jackets scored four consecutive goals in the third period.Anderson put Columbus ahead 3-2 at 2:19 when he picked off a defensive pass and banged it in from the slot seconds after coming onto the ice for his shift.Saad, Sedlak and Jones scored in a 5-minute span to make it 6-2 with 5:37 to go.Youre not going to play good when you make dumb decisions with the puck, Islanders coach Jack Capuano said. It has nothing to do structurally. It has nothing to do goaltending-wise. We just made some bad decisions.New Yorks third-string goalie Jean-Francois Berube then replaced Halak and stopped the one shot he faced in his season debut.The Islanders came out quick and it took Columbus a while to get going. New York took a 1-0 lead 5:59 in when a defensive pass by the Blue Jackets Sam Gagner at the boards was deflected by Bailey, and the popup was bobbled by Bobrovsky into the net. Bailey was given credit for an unassisted goal.We just had to keep on playing, get our feet, simply our game, and I thought we did a good job with that, Columbus coach John Tortorella said of the Blue Jackets slow start. Weve done a good job of that all year long, as far as just trying to play and not worry about what happened.The Blue Jackets tied it up on a power play with 6:01 left in the first when Johnson wound up from just inside the neutral zone and fired a bullet past Halak. It was Johnsons first goal of the season.Columbus Brandon Dubinsky and New Yorks Travis Harmonic went to the penalty box for 5 minutes each when both threw down the gloves and threw punches near the end of the first quarter.Columbus took a 2-1 lead when a speeding Atkinson took a pass from Johnson in the neutral zone and beat Halak on the breakaway 10:16 into the second. New York tied with 7:28 left in the period when Tavares lifted the puck over Bobrovskys pad from in front of the net.The Blue Jackets took off in the third period.After Anderson gave Columbus the lead for good, Saad made it 4-2 on a wrister from the high slot at 9:23.Sedlak, who scored his first NHL goal on Friday night, scored another when he tapped in a loose puck with 7:21 to go. Jones capped it with just over 5 1/2 minutes remaining.Our mindset is, whether were down by a goal or up by a goal, were still trying to press and get the next goal. Atkinson said.Game notes Columbus is 9-1-1 in its last 11 home games. ... Blue Jackets F Nick Foligno was a scratch because of illness for the second straight day. Oliver Bjorkstrand was called up from Cleveland (AHL) on Friday to replace him. ... The Blue Jackets loaned D Dalton Prout to Cleveland on a conditioning assignment. ... C Ryan Strome was back in the lineup for the Islanders after missing one game due to illness. ... Islanders scratched G Thomas Greiss, D Scott Mayfield and LW Anthony Beauvillier. ... Bobrovsky has allowed two goals or fewer in 18 of 23 games.UP NEXTIslanders: Host Washington on Tuesday night.Blue Jackets: At Edmonton on Tuesday night in the opener of a three-game trip to western Canada. Brandon Gormley Jersey . Manuel was offered a position the day he was fired. He accepted earlier this week and the team made the announcement Friday. Coyotes Jerseys 2020 . -- Adam Snyder returned to the San Francisco 49ers this season because the offensive lineman thought it was his best opportunity to win a championship. https://www.cheapcoyotes.com/1158z-jordan-oesterle-jersey-coyotes.html . It just didnt show when he hit the ice. Berra made 42 saves and Kris Russell scored at 1:32 of overtime, lifting the Calgary Flames to a 3-2 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks on Sunday night. Coyotes Jerseys China . According to a report from the Winnipeg Free Press, the Bombers will name Acting GM Kyle Walters to the post full time. Clayton Keller Jersey .C. -- Al Jefferson joked that he feels he can score from anywhere on the court. A handful of potential UFC stars are on deck Saturday at UFC Fight Night inside Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, California.Strawweight Paige VanZant possesses all the intangibles of a breakout, mainstream athlete, but at 22, she has plenty of room to grow. Shell face a real test from former Invicta FC titleholder Michelle Waterson. In the co-main event, Sage Northcutt and Mickey Gall will fight over a top prospect tag in the welterweight division. ESPN.com is here to take you deeper into the fights with our UFC Sacramento Cheat Sheet.Paige VanZant (7-2) vs. Michelle Waterson (13-4), strawweightsOdds as of Dec. 14: VanZant -115; Waterson -105For PVZ, nothing gets in the way of fightingIt has been a unique 2016 for VanZant, who took an extended break during the first half of the year to appear on ABCs Dancing With the Stars.According to Urijah Faber, VanZants mentor at Team Alpha Male in Sacramento, there was a slight adjustment period after the show, when VanZant returned to the daily grind of gym life.It definitely took some getting used to, coming back here where no one is looking twice at her, Faber said. Getting back to the grimy life of a fighter, its like you get pulled out of someone bringing your coffee to you, making sure your makeup is OK, to, Oh yeah, this is what I do. I think there was a little bit of a shell shock.Apparently, that adjustment period didnt have a negative effect on VanZant, who scored the most prolific knockout of her career with a jumping switch kick?against Bec Rawlings in August.VanZant still has multiple irons in the fire. She turned down a movie role to prepare for this fight against Waterson and is currently writing an autobiography. Her manager, Mike Roberts, says the No. 1 focus still is -- and will remain -- her fighting career.Right now, nothing gets in the way of fighting, Roberts said. Anything she does has to be done in between fights, only when it makes sense. She wants full training camps for these fights.Waterson versus the worldIt seems like the world has been telling Waterson to give up on fighting for some time now.In 2014, Waterson nearly put her career on hold because the promotion she was with, Invicta FC, wasnt offering her fights and she wanted to have a second child. (Her daughter, Araya, was born in 2011). She eventually chose to continue fighting and was rewarded with a UFC contract and debut fight in 2015.Since that debut, a victory, Waterson has been relegated to the sideline. Multiple bouts fell through due to injury, including a fractured hand in August. It has been a trying few years, to say the least.I just thought the world had it out for me, Waterson said. It didnt want me to succeed. Every time I came up for air, I plummeted down even deeper. Thats how I felt.I have multiple halves. Im not just a fighter. Im also a mother aand a wife and those things pull at me.ddddddddddddWhen they do, those are the only times I feel conflicted about my career. But fortunately I have a very supportive husband who is very understanding of my passion in martial arts, who believes in my abilities and what I can accomplish.Waterson was so eager to return to action, she says negotiations for this fight began before she even received medical clearance on her hand. Although she has missed significant time, she has had the benefit of multiple fight camps at Jackson Wink MMA in Albuquerque, New Mexico.It almost feels like Ive had a super camp, Waterson said. I think Paige has come to the sport at the right place and the right time, but as a fighter, I think shes still growing and learning her own style. That can make her dangerous because you dont know what to expect, but Im ready for anything.Key statsPaige VanZant:7-2 record in MMA career (4-1 in UFC)7-0 in career vs fighters outside top 10 in current UFC strawweight rankings (0-2 vs top-10 fighters); Waterson is ranked 11thLands 3.5 significant strikes per minute in UFC career (allows 2.5 significant strikes per minute)Michelle Waterson:13-4 record in MMA career (1-0 in UFC)Won 7 of past 8 fights (1 decision win, 4 submissions, 2 TKO)Outstruck Angela Magana 102-19 on total strikes in UFC debut (according to FightMetric)BreakdownQuestion No. 1: How much weight does experience carry in this fight?VanZant has a relatively good amount of it for a 22-year-old, but she has nothing on Waterson, 30.Expect that to show in multiple aspects of the fight, particularly in grappling exchanges. VanZant grapples with youthful recklessness. Her eagerness to force positions will sometimes place her in bad spots. And against a seasoned competitor like Waterson, who has eight submission finishes in her career, thats dangerous.VanZant is learning, and we saw that in her last bout. The finish was obviously great, but the time leading up to it was telling as well. Rather than rely on her motor and tenacity to create and win scrambles, VanZant stayed on the outside of Rawlings, maintained her patience and showed a willingness to stick to the game plan. It wasnt always pretty, but thats what development looks like.Sometimes, styles match up in a way that makes it easier to predict where a fight will end up. This isnt one of those times. Expect both strawweights to bring a little bit of everything, exchange kicks on the outside, test each others strengths in the clinch and wind up on the ground from time to time. If I had to pick one area that decides this fight, its who wins on the ground.Prediction:?Waterson by third-round submission (rear-naked choke).You make the call: ' ' '