The Columbus Blue Jackets look to sweep their season series with the Winnipeg Jets from Nationwide Arena.

The former team of Patrik Laine and Jack Roslovic will surely help motivate the Jackets' forwards this evening in front of the faithful.

Winnipeg has had an impressive season thus far, having elite seasons from Joshua Morrissey and Connor Hellybuck.

The Winnipeg Jets are coming into tonight off a recent evening with the Seattle Kraken, which resulted in a shootout victory

The Blue Jackets are coming into tonight off a recent Valentine Day date with the New Jersey Devils, with a regulation loss in the dying seconds.

Winnipeg continues to be a strong contender out in the west, with elite seasons from home grown talent in Joshua Morrissey and Connor Hellybuck. They sit comfortably in second place with next to no noise around them, coaching has been sound. Nobody knows who they’re truly after at the deadline, and how they will be in the postseason. They could easily be in the second round in this conference.

Columbus continues to sit Vladislav Gavrikov to protect the asset. Last reported value was a first, a third, and fourth round draft picks for his services

Projected Lineups


Winnipeg Jets

Kyle Connor—Pierre-Luc Dubois—Cole Perfetti
Nikolaj Ehlers—Mark Schiefele—Blake Wheeler
Morgan Barron—Adam Lowry—Mason Appleton
Saku Malaenen—Kevin Stenlund—Karson Kuhulman

Josh Morrissey—Neal Pionk
Brendan Dillon—Dylan DeMelo
Dylan Samberg—Nate Schmidt

David Rittich
Connor Hellybuck

Scratched — Sam Gagner

Injured —

Columbus Blue Jackets

Johnny Gaudreau—Boone Jenner—Kirill Marchenko
Kent Johnson—Cole Sillinger—Patrik Laine
Liam Foudy—Jack Roslovic—Emil Bemstrom
Eric Robinson—Sean Kuraly—Mathieu Olivier

Tim Breni—Erik Gudbranson
Gavin Bayreuther—Adam Boqvist
Nick Blankenburg—Andrew Peeke

Elvis Merzlikins
Joonas Korpisalo

Scratched — Lane Pederson, Vladislav Gavrikov
Injured — Zach Werenski, Jakub Voracek, Jake Bean, Gustav Nyquist, Yegor Chinakov, Justin Danforth, Carson Meyer

Players to Watch


Winnipeg — Pierre-Luc Dubois — most likely the last game covered here with him as a member of the Winnipeg Jets, I fully expect him a new uniform come opening night in October.


Columbus — Patrik Laine — former players of an organization always come back and bite

Predicted Final Score

WPG — 5
CBJ — 4


Thoughts? More to come...

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