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ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Columbus Blue Jackets coach John Tortorella stresses positioning in front of the net. Sam Gagner and Brandon Saad got great results putting those lessons into practice Friday night.Gagner and Saad each scored twice in the first period as the Blue Jackets beat the Anaheim Ducks 4-0.Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 35 shots for his 14th career shutout, while the offense provided a season-high in support by converting rebounds into goals.Gagner scored midway through the first period, cleaning up Scott Hartnells missed shot for his first goal since signing with the Blue Jackets as a free agent.Saad, who made it 2-0 just 21 seconds later, then swatted in his own rebound with 6:10 left for his 10th career multi-goal game and first with the Blue Jackets. Gagner followed up his own miss on the power play 20 seconds later.Thats usually where games are kind of decided, if youre willing to take a few beatings to get to the front of the net and also make sure no one is around yours, Blue Jackets captain Nick Foligno said.Foligno had three assists to match his career high and tie the team record for assists in a period. Alexander Wennberg had assists on Saad and Gagners second goals.The Blue Jackets finished their four-game West Coast trip with five points.I thought we built as we went along, Gagner said. Good feeling for us and we got to keep pushing forward.Ducks goalie John Gibson made 28 saves before being replaced by Dustin Tokarski midway through the third period. Tokarski stopped all five shots he faced.Anaheim, shut out for the first time this season and two days after getting a season-high six goals against Nashville, had recorded at least a point in each of its previous four games.We didnt accomplish anything tonight, said Ducks captain Ryan Getzlaf, who returned after missing the win over Nashville with an upper-body injury. That was from start to finish. When you give up four goals in the first period, youre just trying to battle and get something out of it.On Saads first goal of the game, he unleashed a wrist shot from the high slot that hit the post and careened in. Saad knew it was a goal and started celebrating immediately, but the officials needed a video review to confirm it.The game was surprisingly heated, with Blue Jackets RW Josh Anderson and Ducks D Josh Manson fighting 1:50 into the first period.Foligno bowled over Gibson in the second period, with the goaltender taking visible offense to the collision. Anderson lost his footing and plowed into Gibson in the third period, leading to more jawing.We think that defines a game, it defines who you are as a team as far as how you protect your blue and how you try to get into the opposing teams blue, Tortorella said. Were not trying to hit the goalie. Were trying to do it the right way.Game notes The Blue Jackets scored four goals in a period for the 14th time in franchise history, having last done so against Chicago in March 2015. ... After scoring three power-play goals against Nashville on Wednesday, the Ducks were 0 for 4 with the man-advantage.UP NEXTBlue Jackets: Host Dallas on Monday night.Ducks: At Los Angeles on Monday night.Cheap Swell Bottles ., and Rudi Swiegers of Kipling, Sask., took sixth spot on Saturday in pairs at the NHK Trophy ISU Grand Prix figure skating competition. Buy Swell Water Bottle Australia . 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He sat out the following game, a 108-107 win Saturday in Portland, before coming back to help send the Nuggets to their seventh consecutive loss.BOSTON -- The New York Yankees were three outs away from becoming legitimate challengers for the American League East title before it all went wrong Thursday.New York, holding a three-run lead after eight innings in the opener of a three-game series against the first-place Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park, was on the verge of pulling within three games in the division.However, Boston rallied for five runs, capped by Hanley Ramirezs three-run, walk-off homer, and pulled out a 7-5 victory.The result left the Yankees (77-69) five games behind the Red Sox (82-64) in the division, three games out of the second AL wild-card spot and licking their wounds heading into the Friday game at Fenway.This one hurts, Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. We gotta bounce back tomorrow. We were in a pretty good position going into the ninth inning, and we werent able to close the deal.The Yankees attempt to bounce back Friday when they face Boston right-hander Clay Buchholz, who not long ago found himself in the bullpen amid speculation the Red Sox might actually release him.Now, the veteran right-hander is back in the rotation, and squarely in the division and wild-card chases as the schedule hits the home stretch.Buchholz (6-10, 5.31 ERA), shelled in his last start at Toronto, faces Yankees rookie Luis Cessa (4-1, 4.34).Buchholz is 2-0 with a 3.68 ERA over his past four starts. However, the outing against the Blue Jays was over after three innings -- six runs, four hits, including a Troy Tulowitzki grand slam, and four walks. The Red Sox slugged their way back into the contest and won the rubber game of the three-game series, 11-8.Their plan that they had today was to go out and make me pitch to them, Buchholz said after that game. You know, obviously with the walks, they cashed all those in. On the flip side of that, it shows kind of character we have oon this team coming back, being up, being down.ddddddddddddThe start before that, Buchholz allowed one run on eight hits in 6 2/3 innings at San Diego, beating the Padres 5-1.He is only 5-9 with a 6.19 ERA lifetime against the Yankees, yielding 19 home runs in 88 2/3 innings.The current Yankees dont have great numbers against Buchholz. Mark Teixeira is 4-for-28 (with two homers), Jacoby Ellsbury 2-for-10, newly signed Billy Butler 4-for-18. However, Didi Gregorius is 2-for-4 and Chase Headley and Brian McCann both 3-for-8.Buchholz has pitched just once against the Yankees this season, a brief relief appearance Aug. 10 in which he induced a double-play grounder from the lone batter he faced.Cessa has never faced the Red Sox and will make his sixth major league start. Last month, he became the second Yankees pitcher to throw quality starts in each his first three major league starts (Masahiro Tanaka was the other, and he ran his career-opening streak to an American League-record 16 straight).Cessa is 2-1 with a 2.79 ERA as a starter, but he is coming off his first career loss. On Sunday against the Tampa Bay Rays at Yankee Stadium, Cessa gave up four runs on five hits in 5 2/3 innings. However, three of the hits were home runs.Obviously, you know when you play at this level, you cant miss your spots because when you do, they usually hit them out, Cessa said after the game. So you got to be better at that, hitting your location.Cessa didnt walk anyone and has yet to walk more than two batters in a game.Looking toward bouncing back in his first Fenway start, he said, Every start is important to me. Every time I go out there, I want to give the best I have, and right now, I just got to focus on the next one. ' ' '