Devils, Blue Jackets combine for 64 PIMs, four fights in second period

It was a feisty 20 minutes between the Columbus Blue Jackets and New Jersey Devils. The two teams combined for 74 penalty minutes on the night, including 64 in the second period alone. The damage began early in the middle frame, when a melee broke out following a power-play scoring chance for the Blue Jackets. Brenden Dillon and Dmitri Voronkov dropped the gloves for a quick-and-dirty scrap, each coming away with five-minute majors for fighting. Dillon, who was playing in his 1,000th game, was injured in the fight and didn’t take a shift in the third period. Three minutes later,...