Strong emotions powered the Vancouver Canucks to their latest victory, and theyll try to carry that momentum into their longest road trip of the season. The Canucks open a seven-game, 12-day swing looking to continue their dominance of the last-place Columbus Blue Jackets tonight. Listeners in Vancouver can hear the game live on TSN 1040 with pregame coverage starting at 2pm pt. Vancouver (15-6-1) improved to 5-1-1 in its last seven games with a 2-0 victory over New Jersey on Tuesday. The team received an emotional boost with a pregame tribute to Pat Quinn, a former Canucks player, coach and executive who died two days earlier. I felt like I had a little bit of extra energy in my veins to start the game, said defenseman Kevin Bieksa, who notched just his second point in 18 games. A long stretch of away games shouldnt faze the Canucks, who are among the best road teams in the league with an 8-3-0 record - 5-1-0 this month. Its fun to come to the rink, right wing Alexandre Burrows said. Everybodys working for each other, everybodys paying the price, and were finding ways to win. Burrows is certainly helping, scoring three of his five goals on the season over the past five games. However, he doesnt have any points in six straight meetings with Columbus (6-13-2), including a 6-2 victory on Nov. 22, 2013. The Canucks are 13-1-2 in the last 16 meetings with the Blue Jackets, but theyve dropped three of the last four (1-1-2) at Nationwide Arena after falling 3-1 in the most recent Oct. 20, 2013. Henrik Sedin had three goals in two meetings with Columbus last season, and hes compiled eight points in the last seven road matchups. Vancouvers captain has gone nine games overall without a goal, but does have seven assists in that span. Columbus, tied with Buffalo for the lowest point total in the Eastern Conference, looks to snap a four-game losing streak that is part of a woeful 2-11-2 stretch. The Blue Jackets have gone 1-6-1 at home during that span, yielding an average of 4.1 goals. Their struggles continued Tuesday with a 4-2 loss to Winnipeg, Columbus third straight home defeat. We had chances, coach Todd Richards said. Had a few posts. But posts dont count as goals. The big thing for me is that for two periods it looked like we played a tentative game. The third period we came out and played. Ryan Johansen has two goals and two assists in the last two home games after scoring his eighth of the season against the Jets. He leads the Jackets with 24 points, collecting six goals and eight assists in 11 home games. Sergei Bobrovsky has been in net for every game of the four-game skid, compiling a 3.69 goals-against average after making 28 saves Tuesday. He allowed two goals in his first three career starts against the Canucks before giving up six on 35 shots in the 6-2 road loss in November 2013. 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Mike Aviles went 1 for 2 with a walk and drove in Clevelands run. Anthony Bemboom Angels Jersey . Jason Zucker and Matt Cooke also scored for Minnesota, which has won five of six. Kuemper made five saves in the first, nine in the second, and nine in the third. The rookies best save came with 2:17 left in the third period when he denied former Wild forward Matt Cullen from just outside of the crease on the right side. FALL RIVER, Mass. -- A lawyer for the fiancee of former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez asked a judge Friday to throw out perjury charges, saying Shayanna Jenkins did not wilfully lie as she was bombarded with 1,630 questions over two days before a grand jury. Jenkins has pleaded not guilty in Fall River Superior Court. Prosecutors said she lied to the grand jury nearly 30 times during the investigation into the June 17, 2013, killing of semiprofessional football player Odin Lloyd, who was dating her sister. Hernandez has pleaded not guilty to killing Lloyd. He is also separately charged with killing two men in Boston in 2012. Prosecutors told Superior Court Judge E. Susan Garsh that Jenkins immediately began to lie to police and continued her lies to the grand jury. Fridays arguments centred around three lies prosecutors say Jenkins told to the grand jury regarding her communication with alleged co-conspirator Ernest Wallace, her denial that she knew there were many guns stashed in the home she shared with Hernandez, and her contention that she did not remember where she had disposed of a box she got out of the basement.dddddddddddd Janice Bassil, Jenkins attorney, said that there is no direct evidence to show her client lied, and that errors in her testimony were a "good faith mistake." "Its got to be more than circumstantial evidence. Its got to be more than guesswork and speculation," Bassil said. "Theres no evidence that she said to somebody, Im not going to remember, or Im going to go the grand jury and say I dont remember." Bassil submitted into evidence still photos from surveillance footage taken inside Hernandezs home on the night of Lloyds killing that she said seemed to show Hernandez holding what could be a gun and appearing to hide it from Jenkins. Prosecutor William McCauley said grand jurors were reasonable when they doubted Jenkins sudden gaps of memory and improbabilities in her story. The judge did not immediately rule. Jenkins is due back in court for a pretrial hearing on Dec. 22. ' ' '