The Columbus Blue Jackets start a three game road swing this week in Sunrise, Florida with a battle with the Florida Panthers at 7pm, exclusively on ESPN+ and Hulu.

This is the second time this season, where the Jackets won their last game highlighted by a 47 save performance by Daniil Tarasov.

The Blue Jackets are off back to back wins at home, defeating the LA Kings in overtime and the Calgary Flames in regulation. The Jackets’ last road win was December 2nd against Winnipeg; however, the bigger concern, their last road win against an Eastern Conference opponent was October 23rd versus the Rangers with their backup in net.

Now, there is hope, as this is their first road game against the Atlantic Division. Only games played against them this season have been at home. They are 2-4-0 against the Atlantic this season, beating Montreal once and Florida.

Florida is in the middle of a three game home stand, losing to Seattle on Sunday. With only 3 regulation losses at home this season, and all to Western Conference teams, they’re looking pretty good.

Florida has Patric Hornqvist on the IR due to post concussion syndrome, hoping for a return for Anthony Duclair before the New Year.

It is expected to be a starting battle tonight between Sergei Bobrovsky and Elvis Merzlikins.

Projected Lineups

Florida Panthers

Carter Verhaehge—Alex Barkov—Sam Reinhart
Eetu Lustorainen—Sam Bennett—Matthew Tkachuk
Nick Cousins—Eric Staal—Colin White
Ryan Lomberg—Chris Tierney—Zac Dalpe

Gustav Forsling—Aaron Ekblad
Marc Staal—Brandon Montour
Josh Mahura—Matt Kiersted

Sergei Bobrovsky
Alex Lyon

Scratched —
Injured — Anthony Duclair, Anton Lundell, Radko Gudas, Patric Hornqvist

Columbus Blue Jackets

Johnny Gaudreau—Boone Jenner—Gustav Nyquist
Yegor Chinakov—Jack Roslovic—Patrik Laine
Kent Johnson—Cole Sillinger—Kirill Marchenko
Eric Robinson—Sean Kuraly—Mathieu Olivier

Vladislav Gavrikov—Marcus Bjork
Tim Breni—Erik Gubdranson
Jake Christiansen—Andrew Peeke

Elvis Merzlikins
Daniil Tarasov

Scratched — Carson Meyer, Liam Foudy, Gavin Bayreuther

Injured — Joonas Korpisalo, Zach Werenski, Nick Blankenburg, Justin Danforth, Jakub Voracek, Jake Bean, Adam Boqvist

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