As part of his celebration, Olivier reached behind him and tossed the proverbial monkey off his back.
"It was about time," Olivier said. "It was way overdue. Especially last year with the year I went through, I didn't get a goal in the NHL last year. Yeah, it's been a long time. I knew I could do it. I had some chances the last few games, I felt like, and it finally goes in."
3. Then there was Kuraly, who has three goals in the past two games after coming back from two contests out with an upper-body injury. His goal that broke a 3-3 tie and gave Columbus the lead for good with 9:51 to go was certainly one of his best in the NHL, as he skated the puck through the neutral zone, played it behind two defenders, split the D, recovered the puck and lifted a nifty finish past goalie Sam Montembeault.
That play came moments after a Kuraly turnover almost ended up in the CBJ net and on the same shift that he absorbed a hit in the CBJ offensive zone then delivered one on the other side of the ice, and it's fair to say the local kid had some fire in his belly as he steamed up the ice.
"I was going to dump the puck and I had a little bit of extra juice," he said. "I tried to make, it's not a dangle, but I just put the puck behind him and see if I could have a chance. It worked out tonight. There's nights you even do better stuff and it doesn't work out, but you're happy when it goes in the back of the net."