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CBJ P79 @ New York Rangers — Saturday Night Finale |
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The Columbus Blue Jackets conclude their Saturday night games for the regular season with a road contest at the Madison Square Garden. The final road game in New York is against the Rangers at 7pm from MSG and Bally Sports Ohio.
The Blue Jackets could even the season series split with a win tonight. A win or point will have them at 30th place in the overall league standings. Columbus has assigned four skaters to the Monsters with AHL Cleveland: forwards Joona Luoto and Josh Dunne; and defenders Marcus Bjork and Billy Sweezey.
This means fours injured players are coming back. It will be a good thing to get injured players under contract back in before the fall, despite it hurting the tanking chances. This is a bad by accident team, considering they added former Flames Johnny Gaudreau and Erik Gudbranson long term this past summer.
New York is a strong and deep team, maybe better on paper than last season, and they were the Eastern Conference final runner up.
Projected Lineups
New York Rangers
Chris Kreider—Mika Zibanejad—Jimmy Vessey
Artemi Panarin—Vincent Throchek—Vladimir Tarasenko
Alexis Lafereniere—Filip Chytil—Kappo Kakko
Barclay Goodrow—Tyler Motte—Ben Harpur
Ryan Lindgren—Adam Fox
K’Andre Miller—Jacob Trouba
Niko Mikkola—Braden Schneider
Jaroslav Halak
Igor Shesterkin
Injured — Patrick Kane
Columbus Blue Jackets
Johnny Gaudreau—Boone Jenner—Kirill Marchenko
Kent Johnson—Jack Roslovic—Patrik Laine
Liam Foudy—Lane Pederson—Emil Bemstorm
Eric Robinson—Sean Kuraly—Mathieu Olivier
Tim Breni—Andrew Peeke
Gavin Bayreuther—Adam Boqvist
Nick Blankenburg—Erik Gudbranson
Michael Hutchinson
Jon Gillies
Injured — Elvis Merzlikins, Jake Bean, Zach Werenski, Justin Danforth
Players to Watch
New York: Vladimir Tarasenko - the Russian rental winger was acquired first before the deadline in a massive blockbuster with the St Louis Blues, representing them as their only all star. He has 19 points in 28 games since joining, 8 goals and 11 assists.
Columbus: Patrik Laine - 52 points in 55 games. Shortened season, but an impressive effort.
Predicted Score
NYR - 5
CBJ - 2
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