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The Blue Jackets took the ice for pregame warm-ups last night wearing THANK YOU FANS across the backs of their jerseys, a nod to the locals who endured a four-month lockout but still packed Nationwide Arena.The g <a href={url}>{keyword}</a> esture is nice. What Blue Jackets fans really want, though, is a club that can go toe-to-toe with the behemoths of the NHL, a club that pushes back when it gets shoved. Or maybe even a team that shoves first once in a while.Last night, the Blue Jackets show <a href={url}>{keyword}</a>ed considerable resolve against a Red Wings club determined to save face after an embarrassing season-opening loss to St. Louis.The Blue Jackets lost 4-3 in a four-round shootout before a standing-room-only crowd of 19,206 in Nationwide. By the end of the night, it was all standing room. Nobody was sitting. We ll get better, Blue Jackets winger R.J. Umberger said. The big thing is the fight of our team. We kept coming. We re built to outwork teams, wear teams down. It s no surprise that the first two games of the year have been a fight to the end. Cam Atkinson, James Wisniewski and Vinny Prospal scored for the Blue Jackets, who came back from a 2-0 deficit and led 3-2 until Detroit s Pavel Datsyuk scored with 6:04 to play in regulation.Damien Brunner s shootout goal ended it for the Red Wings. The 26-year-old Swiss crammed the puck between the extended right pad of Jackets goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky and inside the near post. The goal was briefly reviewed to see if Brunner had touched the puck a second time after Bobrovsky s initial stop, but it stood.Atkinson appeared to score in the first round of his shootout, but his goal unlike Brunner s was overturned upon video review. Replays showed he clearly touched the puck a second time, jamming it over the line after it had touched Howard s pads. We got a point, Blue Jackets defenseman Jack Johnson said. We re not happy with it because we do believe we should have won that game. But we ll put it behind us. Bobrovsky made 39 saves and kept the Blue Jackets in it, especially early when a series of penalties gave Detroit a huge boost of momentum. Our goalie was great again, coach Todd Richards said. If he s not great in the first period, with all of their power-play opportunities, we would have been <a href={url}>{keyword}</a>  in a real big jam. The Blue Jackets won a shootout in Nashville on Saturday. They have three points through two games this season. They didn t get their third point (1-7-1) last season until the ninth game. They re one of the best teams in this league, Atkinson said. They re always pushing to win the Stanley Cup. But we can play with them any day of the week. It just shows we don t have any quit in us and whatever is thrown at us, we just got to work our hardest. That s pretty much our motto this year. The Red Wings spent two days licking their wounds after a 6-0 loss to the Blues in the season opener on Saturday. The Blue Jackets were expecting an angry bunch, and they were right.Red Wings coach Mike Babcock had former Predator Jordin Tootoo on the ice for the start of the game. Richards knew what was happening, and he countered with Jared Boll. They immediately fought. Boll won, then clapped on his way to the penalty box.The crowd roared, just as they roared as Boll and Derek MacKenzie and Matt Calvert forechecked as if on fire.There was fight in these Blue Jackets. Only the finish was missing.aportzline@dispatch.com@Aportzline

 
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