With both teams struggling mightily offensively Riley Nash Jersey Womens , the Los Angeles Kings and Pittsburgh Penguins have swapped forwards in hopes of fixing their scoring woes.Per the Penguins' official Twitter account, the team has acquired winger Tanner Pearson from the Kings in exchange for Carl Hagelin. The details of the trade are below.The Penguins have acquired forward Tanner Pearson (@tannerjpearson) from the LA Kings in exchange for Carl Hagelin.Pearson's contract carries an average annual value of $3.75 million and he is signed through the 2020.21 season. Details: https://t.co/hRFEwMpUb5 pic.twitter.com/59sci5oAso— Pittsburgh Penguins (@penguins) November 14, 2018Pearson was among the many LA forwards that simply couldn't find the back of the net, and it's a reason why they're the worst team in the NHL right now. He has zero goals and one assist on the season.Hagelin has equally struggled, with just one goal and two assists in 16 games so far. But with good puck possession numbers (a 52.0 Corsi For percentage),聽yet a woeful 3.6 shooting percentage (his career is 9.8 percent), it suggests that Hagelin has simply been a product of bad luck.advertising Credit: Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY SportsHagelin could be paired alongside captain Anze Kopitar - one of the best playmakers in the NHL - so maybe that will help him regain his scoring form. Hagelin is in the final year of his contract, so a strong finish in Los Angeles would do him some good as free agency looms.What This MeansPittsburgh has lost six of its last seven games - and they currently sit third-last in the Eastern Conference. Los Angeles has a horrible 5-11-1 record Martin Hanzal Jersey Womens , and they're dead-last in the NHL right now.Pearson and Hagelin simply weren't scoring with their respective teams, but the former figures to be paired with either Sidney Crosby or Evgeni Malkin. Both players, of course, have long histories of turning almost every linemate into a 20-30 goal guy. Pearson is two years removed from a 23-goal season, so he has shown the ability to flourish聽as a reliable scorer.advertisingFor the Kings, unloading the remainder of Pearson's contract also helps them save valuable cap space going forward. Acquiring Hagelin is low-risk. They can re-sign him if he does well, or simply let the Swede walk in free agency if it doesn't pan out. A fine move here by GM Rob Blake. COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) The Columbus Blue Jackets got plenty of lucky breaks in their surprisingly successful 2016-17 season.Serious injuries were avoided Anton Khudobin Jersey Womens , their power play was one of the NHL’s best, and goalie Sergei Bobrovsky won the Vezina Trophy. Pucks bounced the Blue Jackets’ way more often than not as they piled up a 16-game winning streak and earned a playoff spot, just one season removed from a last-place finish in the Metropolitan Division.Good fortune has been a little bit harder to come by this season for the Blue Jackets, who are in danger of fading out of the playoff picture in the Metro. Injuries have taken some of the team’s best players out of action for big chunks of time. The power-play is worst in the league. The penalty-kill is only slightly better.”We’re spoiled because of the year we had last year when everything went our way, we got breaks, we were healthy, a lot of things went our way,” said Columbus coach John Tortorella after the Blue Jackets outshot Washington 39-25 on Tuesday night but lost the game when Nicklas Backstrom scored with 43 seconds left.”As I’ve always said Wade Megan Jersey Womens , we forced them to go our way for the most part, but you do get some luck in a year,” he said. ”We had a ton of it. We’ve got (crap) for luck right now.”Forwards Cam Atkinson, Brandon Dubinsky, Nick Foligno and Boone Jenner – players expected to be top goal scorers – all were slow to get started. Atkinson just got back on the ice after missing a month with a broken foot. A fractured orbital bone sustained in a fight Dec. 12 sidelined Dubinsky for six weeks. He just got back in the lineup, scoring the tying goal in the third period Tuesday night.Jenner missed the first seven games of the season with an injury. Center Alexander Wennberg and defenseman Zach Werenski also have been out with hurts.Those players were expected to shoulder the load. Instead it’s been wingers Artemi Panarin, Josh Anderson and Oliver Bjorkstrand, as well as all-star defenseman Seth Jones. Their production has kept the Blue Jackets in playoff contention Tobias Rieder Jersey Womens , but every other team in the Metro Division is within reach, too.Bobrovsky is eighth in the league in wins, and his .920 save percentage is down from the cumulative .931 of last season. Columbus has lost four straight and nine of the last 11, but Tortorella sees progress.”It’s been that way most of the year here, where things just haven’t totally gone our way in games,” he said. ”Somehow we’ve got to have the wherewithal to keep finding ourselves, keep staying with it, and turn these games into wins and try to get on a run.”On Tuesday Mike Hoffman Jersey Womens , the Blue Jackets moved the puck effectively and went hard at Washington goalie Braden Holtby in a 3-2 loss that Tortorella described as ”a kick in the stomach.””We were around the net a lot,” Jones said. ”A bounce here and a bounce there is a couple more goals for us.”Columbus will get another crack at the Capitals in Washington on Friday night. Six of the next seven games are against Metro Division rivals, so that stretch is likely to determine whether the Blue Jackets will return to the playoffs. There haven’t been back-to-back playoff years in the 18-year history of the franchise.”It’s a grind,” Dubinsky said. ”It’s a long season. Nobody said it was going to be easy for us. It’s hard right now, not getting the results. I think we’re putting in some good minutes. We just have to come to work tomorrow with our heads up and be ready and willing to get better.”—