The Columbus Blue Jackets are on their third game of four on their southern road trip with this evening’s collision in Sunrise, Florida. The Blue Jackets conclude their third and final meeting with the Florida Panthers on Fox Sports.

The Panthers have won the series already. They got old at the deadline with Tarasenko and Okposo. This is Okposo’s best shot at winning the cup. The Cats have been in the middle lately, but the playoff prowl is coming soon.

Jackets lost Nylander and Meyer. Nylander is a GTD. No timetable for Boone. Gaudreau, Werenski, and Merzlikins are confirmed for the Worlds.

Bob gets the go against Jet Greaves.

Projected Lineups

Florida Panthers

Vladimir Tarasenko -- Aleksander Barkov -- Sam Reinhart

Nick Cousins -- Sam Bennett -- Matthew Tkachuk

Eetu Luostarinen -- Anton Lundell -- Evan Rodrigues

Kyle Okposo -- Kevin Stenlund -- Steven Lorentz

Oliver Ekman-Larsson -- Gustav Forsling

Niko Mikkola -- Brandon Montour

Uvis Balinskis -- Dmitry Kulikov

Sergei Bobrovsky

Anthony Stolarz

Scratched: Ryan Lomberg, Jonah Gadjovich, Josh Mahura, Tobias Bjornfot

Injured: Carter Verhaeghe (upper body), Aaron Ekblad (lower body)

Columbus Blue Jackets

Johnny Gaudreau -- Dmitri Voronkov -- Justin Danforth

Alexandre Texier -- Cole Sillinger -- Kirill Marchenko

Mikael Pyyhtia -- Sean Kuraly -- Mathieu Olivier

James Malatesta -- Brendan Gaunce -- Trey Fix-Wolansky

Zach Werenski -- Damon Severson

Ivan Provorov -- Erik Gudbranson

Nick Blankenburg -- David Jiricek

Jet Greaves

Malcolm Subban

Scratched: None

Injured: Carson Meyer (upper body), Alex Nylander (lower body), Adam Fantilli (calf laceration), (lower body), Yegor Chinakhov (upper body), Adam Boqvist (upper body), Elvis Merzlikins (lower body), Jake Bean (broken hand), Daniil Tarasov (upper body), Boone Jenner (personal)

Players to Watch

Florida — Vladimir Tarasenko — Sens’ legend is here and producing.


Columbus — Cole Sillinger — could break career high

Predicted Final Score

FLA - 4

CBJ - 3

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