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You knew it was going to be a typical Nashville Predators - Columbus Blue Jackets fight when the teams had two fights and had 20 minutes of penalties in the first 62 seconds of the contest.Three seconds in, Jordan Tootoo and Derek Dorsett set the stage for the evening with a bout, and then 59 seconds later, the heavyweight bout of Brian McGrattan and Jared Boll started to get all the nastiness out of the system early in the game.What wasn't typical, was that Columbus won for the first time in 18 games in Nashville and only the second time since the start of the 2001-02 season, overcoming the Preds' 26-1-(1)-1 record over the last ten years.James Wisniewski scored his first goal at a Jacket off the faceoff 2:43 in the overtime period to break the long-time jinx that the Jackets have had in Music City. The Jackets also got their first goal from another newcomer, Jeff Carter. They also got power play goals from Vinny Prospal and RJ Umberger.The Predators got a pair of power pla...
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