Trending: Detroit swept the season series a year ago and dealt Columbus a heartbreaker in the first meeting of the year, scoring in the final minute to take a 5-4 win on Jan. 2. The Blue Jackets went 17-5-1 against their northern neighbors from 2017-22 but are 1-5-1 the past two-plus years.

Marchenko, who has five 3-point games this season, scored only 30 seconds into the game, the earliest in a game the Blue Jackets have scored this season. He led the Blue Jackets with nine shot attempts and had another strong scoring chance in the third that he couldn’t bury.

Kirill Marchenko scored twice and the Columbus Blue Jackets beat the Dallas Stars 6-4 for their second straight win to keep them in the hunt for an Eastern Conference wild-card spot.