SUNRISE Jamie Benn Jersey , Fla. (AP) — The Columbus Blue Jackets overcame a shaky second period, scoring twice in the third and spoiling the home opener for the Florida Panthers.Cam Atkinson’s goal with 2:46 left lifted the Blue Jackets to a 5-4 victory over the Panthers on Thursday night.With traffic in front of the net, Atkinson swept the puck past goalie James Reimer, who was flat on his back during the play. The Panthers challenged for goalie interference, but the goal stood.“I wanted to do whatever it takes to help this team win, and I did,” Atkinson said.The Blue Jackets gave up three goals in the second period after being outshot 22-5.“There is some great teaching opportunity for us here as we found a way to win this game,” Columbus coach John Tortorella said.Artemi Panarin had a goal and two assists for Columbus. Boone Jenner, Anthony Duclair and Zach Werenski also scored, and Joonas Korpisalo stopped 37 shots.“It’s probably one of the better goaltending performances I’ve seen letting in four goals,” Tortorella said. “He gave us a chance throughout the night, fought hard. I thought he was our best player.”The Blue Jackets have won five straight over the Panthers.Evgenii Dadonov recorded a goal and two assists and Aleksander Barkov had a goal and an assist for the Panthers. Nick Bjugstad and Troy Brouwer also scored. Reimer made 27 saves for the Panthers.“You score four goals at home, you should win,” Panthers coach Bob Boughner said.Trailing 4-3, the Blue Jackets tied it on Jenner’s goal 1:45 into the third. Jenner shot from the boards on the left side and the puck trickled between Reimer’s pads.The Panthers took a 4-3 lead when Bjugstad poked in the puck from in front with 8.3 seconds left in the second period.Columbus tied it at 3 on a power-play goal by Duclair, whose wrist shot got inside the near post at 12:16 of the second. The goal was Duclair’s first with the Blue Jackets.Trailing 2-1 in the second, Florida tied the score on Barkov’s goal. Dadonov passed from the right circle between the skates of a defender to Barkov on the left side. Barkov fired the puck past Korpisalo at 6:29.“We scored a couple of goals, but we lost 5-4. It doesn’t matter. We need to learn how to win games,” Barkov said.Brouwer’s tip-in of a shot by Mark Pysyk at 11:03 of the second gave the Panthers a 3-2 lead.The Panthers outshot the Blue Jackets 15-0 midway through the second period.The Blue Jackets took a 1-0 lead during a 5-on-3 power play with 6:31 left in the first period. Werenski’s one-timer from the high-slot beat Reimer on the glove side.Panarin stretched the Columbus lead to 2-0 when he grabbed a loose puck inside the blue line, skated in and put the puck past Reimer with 2:40 left in the first.The Panthers closed to 2-1 with 10.6 seconds left in the first. Barkov passed across to Dadonov in the right circle and his shot beat Korpisalo on the left side.NOTES: The Panthers celebrated the 25th anniversary of their inaugural season by introducing members of the original 1993-94 team in a pre-game ceremony. . Panthers C Derek MacKenzie missed the game with an upper body injury. … G Korpisalo made his second start in four games for the Blue Jackets.UP NEXT:Blue Jackets: Visit the Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday.Panthers: Host the Vancouver Canucks on Saturday. Jim Nill could have picked anyone from an extensive list of experienced out-of-work NHL coaches to fill the Dallas Stars‘ vacancy.Darryl Sutter has won the Stanley Cup twice, Dan Bylsma once, Alain Vigneault has made the Final twice and Dave Tippett is widely considered one of the best in hockey. Any of them could’ve been a nice fit, but the Stars general manger wanted to be comprehensive in his search.”The game is changing, life changes, and we wanted to make sure that we didn’t forget somebody http://www.starsshoponline.com/authentic-jason-spezza-jersey ,” Nill said. ”Let’s not leave anything, any leaf unturned, every door open, let’s look at every candidate.”Dallas decided last week on University of Denver coach Jim Montgomery to replace franchise legend Ken Hitchcock, who returned for one season almost two decades after leading the Stars to the Cup. Nill’s front office is far from the only one looking outside the box to college, junior and Europe for coaching candidates, a trend that could lead to far more teams going beyond retreads with the hope of finding the next great mind behind the bench.”It’s more kind of an evolution of the game itself,” said Philadelphia coach Dave Hakstol, who was hired out of the University of North Dakota in the summer of 2015 and has gotten the Flyers to the playoffs twice in three seasons. ”There are so many good people coaching at different levels. For a lot of years it seems that maybe the college-coaching level was maybe bypassed for some of the opportunities. But I think when you look at the quality of coaching in the college game today … there’s some real talented people.”Before Hakstol and Montgomery, it had been since Herb Brooks in 1987 and Bob Johnson in 1982 that a coach went from the NCAA ranks directly to the NHL. Outside of now-San Jose’s Peter DeBoer and ex-Pittsburgh coach Mike Johnston, junior hockey hasn’t funneled many straight to the NHL, and there have only been two European-born head coaches: Ivan Hlinka and Alpo Suhonen in the early 2000s.It’s far more common for teams to mine the American Hockey League and NHL staffs for head jobs, and that’s usually a necessary step. Tampa Bay’s Jon Cooper came from the United States Hockey League but spent time in the AHL before the Lightning elevated him, and longtime Quebec Major Junior Hockey League coach Benoit Groulx is on the same path now with the NHL in his near future.Buffalo’s Phil Housley got some experience as the U.S. world junior coach but went right from high school hockey to being an assistant in Nashville. And Rod Brind’Amour spent seven seasons as an assistant after his playing days were over before being named Carolina’s coach on Tuesday.Hurricanes GM Don Waddell said Brind’Amour’s ”fresh ideas, ability to motivate and understanding of what it takes to bring a championship” to Carolina set him apart. As the New York Rangers look to fill their job after firing Vigneault and other openings come up in the next few offseasons, there will be plenty of fresh coaches to choose from.Boston University’s David Quinn has been linked to the Rangers but will stay at least one more year and run the U.S. world junior team before likely being the next to graduate from college to the NHL. Sweden national coach Rikard Gronborg might also be in the mix sooner than later.”I’ve kind of done all that stuff and coached some of the best players in the world,” Gronborg told Sportsnet recently. ”Now I’m interested to have my ideas, to (implement) them over a period of time and do them overseas, and kind of challenging the coaching community over in the NHL. I bring a different perspective on things.”Germany national coach Marco Sturm also brings a different perspective after playing 14 NHL seasons and leading an unheralded team to capture the silver medal at the most recent Olympics. Sturm would like to coach in the NHL but said: ”I’m only 39 years old, I’ve still got time and I’m still learning and I want to learn and we’ll see what the future presents.”With an eye on the future, Nill looked at the present success of young coaches like Cooper and New Jersey’s John Hynes and widened his net. It ended with Montgomery and perhaps a new thought process from Nill on how to go through coaching searches.”Once we went through this process, I just think … who was Scott Bowman? Someone gave him a chance,” Nill said. ”Who was Mike Babcock? Somebody gave him a chance. This is a guy that he deserves a chance.”—AP Sports Writer Stephen Hawkins in Dallas contributed.—