I believe the phrase is "Face!"

After rambling on about how easy the Columbus-Boston game would be, and how he may as well give goaltender Dan Blackburn the night off, and using the phrase "Your goal differential will be 20-1 after tonight", Blue Jackets GM Peterman was nowhere to be seen following his team's humiliating defeat at the hands of the Boston Bruins - and in Columbus.

The Bruins offense had its finest showing of the season, while the defense stepped up and limited Columbus' offense, which was going to score ten goals, their GM crowed, to only nineteen shots. The defensive effort was despite the loss of Sean Hill, who was felled by a Christian Berglund hook midway through the second period as the Blue Jackets became increasingly irritable as they realized they were losing.

The humiliation began early, as Martin Havlat struck the first blow at 01:55 of the first period after being the benficiary of a pair of passes from the Sean Tandem Defense (The STD, get your t-shirts now!), Hill and Brown. He beat Blackburn to his left side - which, incidentally, has recovered nicely from the nerve damage surgery he underwent previously. Truly, this is a testament to medical science that they were able to heal him. The thought of a team losing a prospect like Blackburn to such an injury - well, let's just be glad we don't have to think about it.

An errant pass by Bill Guerin as a Raffi Torres-caused power play wound down, intercepted by Tie Domi of all people, led to a short-handed Martin Hohener goal to even the game at one. The Jackets stayed on the offensive for the remainder of the period, but didn't come through for the home crowd, as Antti Nittymaki shut them out the remainder of the frame, leaving the game at one apiece.

The second period was pure Street Thuggery on Ice. Twenty-two minutes of penalties were called among six players, including a game misconduct minor on Christian Berglund when he leveled Sean Hill with a hook, leading to his ejection. Somehow among it all, Tim Connolly did things that Tim Connolly does, and scored at 13:27 when Keith Tkachuk fed him the puck on point. Connolly set, then fired the puck past Blackburn, so certain it was in that he started to skate to the side even before the red light flickered. The Bruins took a 2-1 lead into the locker room, but would be opening the third in the disadvantage, with Sean Brown boxed for a boarding penalty with only eight seconds left in the period.

Martin Hoehner again took advantage of his opportunity, scoring just eight seconds in to the third on the power play opportunity. The Columbus crowd started to be energized with that, but Big Mo - (mentum, not Vaughn) was quickly taken back from them when Martin Havlat scored his second of the game thirty-four seconds later to unbreak the tie.

The sides traded penalties until, in a four-on-four situation after Jean-Luc Grand-Pierre and Lee Goren exchanged a pair of boarding and hooking whistles. Jochen Hecht, utilizing the speed, skill, and shooting ability that a technician close to God himself obviously instilled in him, swept through the Jackets' defense to make Dan Blackburn's handsome mug look foolish for the Bruins' fourth goal of the game.

From there, the scoring stopped. Bill Guerin was caught in a roughing penalty, and Jean-Luc Grand-Pierre did the JLGP thing and head-butted an unidentified Bruin, earning a major penalty, which the Bruins failed to capitalize on.

"We're excited to get one in the win column, especially over an opponent who obviously was taking us lightly," Head Coach Robbie Ftorek said. "The Blue Jackets have dropped two in a row to us now this season - once in preseason, once now - so perhaps they should, you know, shut up."

GM Joshua Anderson was more complimentary. "This team is capable of winning, it just needs to click. I am sure we will continue to shuffle our options until we find which one works best for us, but until then - a win is a win, right?"

The Bruins face New Jersey next in a rematch of the opening night, and will be the Bruins fourth game in four days.