The Columbus Blue Jackets defeated the Buffalo Stars by a big score in the regular season match of the National Hockey League (NHL).
The match, which took place at the Keybank Center stadium in Buffalo, ended with the score of 9:4 for the Blue Jackets. Russian forward Kirill Marchenko scored a hat-trick as part of the winning team. In total, the hockey player played in 11 matches this season, scoring 13 goals. This hat-trick was the first hat-trick of the season for the Russian hockey player.
Johnny Gaudreau, Adam Fantilli, Erik Gudbranson, Sean Kuraly, Cole Sillinger and Kent Johnson also scored for Columbus. Rasmus Dahlin, Kyle Okposo, Tage Thompson and Dylan Cozens scored the goals for Sirbs.
Russian hockey players “Columbus” Egor Chinakhov and Ivan Provorov scored two points in the match and recorded two assists each.
The blue-whites got their second win in the last three matches of the regular season. Sirbs suffered their second consecutive defeat and third in their last four games in the National Hockey League.
Previously Nikita Kucherov logged in He is in the top 10 in terms of points among Russians in the NHL.