The Columbus Blue Jackets have a long way to gain the franchise’s first-ever win, but they accomplished something already in Game 1 against the Pittsburgh Penguins: they gained the team’s first-ever lead in a playoff game.
(Yes, there have been some lean times for Columbus.)
On the bright side, it was a real beauty, as Brandon Dubinsky and Jack Johnson combined for a fantastic goal that has some overly anxious Penguins fans worried already. (Also, more than a few people are throwing Marc-Andre Fleury under the bus, as people are wont to do.)
Note: Jussi Jokinen tied the game up just as this post was about to be published, so Penguins fans can rest easy ... and might want to try to take things in stride.
(And then the Blue Jackets got the lead right back. The playoffs are wild, eh?)