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Blue Jackets score 4 in 3rd period, top Predators

The Columbian
Published: February 22, 2011, 12:00am

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Steve Mason made 20 saves for his 18th NHL shutout and Rick Nash scored two of Columbus’ four third-period goals to lift the Blue Jackets to a 4-0 victory over the Nashville Predators on Tuesday night.

Nash, Matt Calvert and Antoine Vermette scored in a 8:38 span early in the third to help the Blue Jackets move within two points of eighth place in the Western Conference.

Fedor Tyutin and Kris Russell each added two assists for Columbus, 10-3-3 in its last 16 games and 7-1-2 against Nashville at home in the last 10 meetings. Mason has shut out the Predators twice this season.

Nashville, which entered the night as the fifth-place team in the West, has lost three of four after winning three of four.

Pekka Rinne, who brought the NHL’s second-best goals-against average at 2.10, made 26 saves, including a toe stop on R.J. Umberger’s breakaway in the second period.

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