Jenner said winning becomes more contagious and more of a habit as a streak continues.
"I think you’re just focused game to game," he said Tuesday. "It did happen quick where we were at 10, we’re at 11, we’re at 12. But you’re just in a groove, you’re feeling good about your game, everyone’s on the same page, you have a lot of confidence as a team that you’re never out of a game. If you have a bad period, you know you’re going to come back with a good one, so it’s definitely a good feeling as a team when you get a streak like that.
"A lot of things have to work out in your favor, and I remember we were getting a different hero throughout every night, goaltending and then someone stepping up with a big goal late, whatever it may be. I remember that streak for sure."
During their streak, the Blue Jackets won once in overtime and twice in shootouts under then-coach John Tortorella, now coach of the Philadelphia Flyers.
“A lot of things have to go your way,” Werenski said. “I think 'Torts' always said it best when we were going through that winning streak: You’re probably not playing good enough to win 16 in a row and when we were on a nine-game losing streak this year, we probably weren't playing bad enough to lose nine games in a row. It's kind of crazy how that works.
“[The Oilers] are playing well, but a lot of is it's going their way too.”
A highlight during Columbus' run was putting its 14-game streak on the line on New Year’s Eve 2016 at the Minnesota Wild, who had 12 consecutive wins.
It was the first time teams played each other while having winning streaks of at least 12 games in the history of the NHL, National Football League, National Basketball Association and Major League Baseball. The Blue Jackets won 4-2.
Columbus won its 16th straight with a 3-1 win -- against Edmonton -- at home Jan. 3.
"As a team, you’re not really thinking about the streak," Jenner said. "I think it’s the media that brings it up and gets all the chatter about it, I think that’s what I remember. We were at 12, 13 and we had a big game against Minny, we were at 14 games and they were at 12 games, so it was a battle of the streaks, it was a big game and then we got to 16."
Two nights later, the Blue Jackets lost 5-0 at the Capitals to fall one win short of tying the Penguins' NHL record, set from March 9 to April 10, 1993.
Columbus finished 50-24-8 for a team record 108 points and third place in the Metropolitan Division that season, but lost to Pittsburgh in five games of the best-of-7 Eastern Conference First Round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
Oilers forward Sam Gagner, who played for the Blue Jackets during their winning streak, said there are a lot of similarities between the two runs.
"I think it's pretty similar," Gagner said Tuesday. "When you go on a streak like this ... a lot of guys have to be pulling at the rope.
"... I think if you look at our team, we've had games that our goaltender wins and our goalies have been great through all of it. And then we have games that our power play wins, games that our penalty kill wins. So we've had depth step up, different guys step up. Our top guys have obviously been great through it all too. ... yeah, it's pretty similar to the year in Columbus, for sure."
NHL.com staff writer Derek Van Diest and NHL.com independent correspondent Gerry Moddejonge contributed to this report
