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Blue Jackets Rout Avalanche 7-2 as Coyle Puts Up Four Points

Charlie Coyle matched his career high with four points as Columbus scored four times in the second period and ended a two-game skid with a season-high seven goals.

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Blue Jackets Rout Avalanche 7-2 as Coyle Puts Up Four Points

Key points

  • The Columbus Blue Jackets scored seven goals on Tuesday night, November 3, 2026, and beat the Colorado Avalanche 7-2 at Nationwide Arena.
  • Mathieu Olivier scored 28 seconds after the opening faceoff, and Ivan Provorov added a second goal in the first period.
  • Twelve Blue Jackets recorded at least one point.

The Columbus Blue Jackets scored seven goals on Tuesday night, November 3, 2026, and beat the Colorado Avalanche 7-2 at Nationwide Arena. Charlie Coyle led the rout with two goals and two assists, matching his career high with four points. Columbus ended a two-game losing run with its highest goal total of the season.

Mathieu Olivier scored 28 seconds after the opening faceoff, and Ivan Provorov added a second goal in the first period. Cale Makar cut the lead to 2-1 with 9:03 left in the first. The game broke open in the second period. Jake Christiansen scored at 4:19 of the second, a notable moment for a team that came into the night ranked 29th in the NHL at 2.33 goals per game. Cole Sillinger scored, and Valeri Nichushkin, a former Avalanche player, made it 6-1 just 39 seconds after Sillinger's goal, with 7:18 left in the period. Colorado scored on a five-on-three power play late in the second to make it 6-2. Coyle scored his second goal at 11:21 of the third to close the scoring.

Who drove the win

Twelve Blue Jackets recorded at least one point. Coyle finished at plus-5. Olivier added a goal and two assists. Sillinger and Nichushkin each had a goal and an assist. Zach Werenski added two assists and now has 12 assists in 13 games this season. Cam Talbot made 26 saves for the win.

Columbus wore new gray jerseys for the game as part of a league-wide uniform program, and the home cannon, fired after every Blue Jackets goal, got a full workout across all three periods.

Why it matters

Columbus is 6-7-1, and the win matters because of how it arrived. A team that had been scoring at one of the lowest rates in the league produced four goals in one period against a Colorado side that had won 5-2 in Chicago the night before. The Avalanche were playing the second game in two nights, and it showed after the first period: Columbus kept arriving at the net in numbers, and Colorado's coverage broke down on the Sillinger and Nichushkin goals, scored 39 seconds apart.

What happens next

Colorado heads home after the two-game trip. Columbus stays at Nationwide Arena and hosts the Dallas Stars on Thursday night, the same Stars team that won 6-5 in Washington on Tuesday.

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