Columbus Blue Jackets at New York Rangers
Sunday, January 19, 2020 – 7:00 EST
Madison Square Garden, New York, New York
TV: Fox Sports Ohio – Radio: WBNS FM
Opponent’s blog: Blueshirt Banter
Columbus Blue Jackets, 25-16-8, 58 points, 4th Metro, 6th East
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New York Rangers, 23-19-4, 50 points, 7th Metro, 13th East
After last night’s stunning 5-0 win over the New Jersey Devils, the Columbus Blue Jackets hit the road to take on the New York Rangers and Artemi Panarin in Madison Square Garden tonight.
The Jackets will get some reinforcements tonight, though.
#CBJ roster moves:
Oliver Bjorkstrand activated from IR.
Kevin Stenlund assigned to @monstershockey.— Mark Scheig (@markscheig) January 19, 2020
Not sure why Kevin Stenlund was sent down and not Jakob Lilja, but whatever.
Player to Watch
Mika Zibanejad
Zibanejad is currently playing top line center and has posted an 18-19-37 line this season next to Artemi Panarin. Zibanejad has seven power play goals this season and has six points in his last five games.
Jackets Notes
The Jackets have allowed 142 shot attempts in the last two games and have just 79 to their credit over the last two games … Elvis Merzlikins has allowed just 15 goals in his last ten starts … Alexander Wennberg is 3-6-9 in his last ten games
The Other Bench
Artemi Panarin posted a five point game earlier this week … The Rangers have the worst expected goals against at 5v5 per sixty minutes in the league at 2.72
Season Series
12/05/2019 NYR 3 @ CBJ 2
01/19/2020 CBJ @ NYR
02/14/2020 NYR @ CBJ
03/24/2020 CBJ @ NYR
Stats
| New York Rangers | Columbus | |
|---|---|---|
| 3.37 (6) | GPG | 2.69 (24) |
| 3.28 (26) | GAPG | 2.53 (3) |
| 21.0% (10) | PP% | 17.2% (23) |
| 79.3% (19) | PK% | 82.3% (9) |
| 54.80% (1) | 5v5 Corsi % | 48.93% (20) |
| 54.46% (1) | 5v5 Fenwick % | 50.91% (10) |
| 7.47% (24) | 5v5 Shot % | 6.87% (27) |
| .918 (15) | 5v5 Save % | .929 (6) |
| Artemi Panarin, 26 | G Leader | Pierre-Luc Dubois, Zach Werenski, 15 |
| Artemi Panarin, 42 | A Leader | Seth Jones, Gustav Nyquist, 21 |
| Artemi Panarin, 68 | P Leader | Pierre-Luc Dubois, 34 |
| Brendan Lemieux, 87 | PIM Leader | Nick Foligno, 52 |
| 13-8-2 | Home / Road | 10-7-6 |
| 6-4-0 | Last 10 | 8-2-0 |
Projected Lineups
| Gustav Nyquist | Pierre-Luc Dubois | Cam Atkinson |
| Nathan Gerbe | Boone Jenner | Nick Foligno |
| Emil Bemstrom | Alexander Wennberg | Oliver Bjorkstrand |
| Jakob Lilja | Riley Nash | Eric Robinson |
| Zach Werenski | Seth Jones |
| Vladislav Gavrikov | David Savard |
| Scott Harrington | Markus Nutivaara |
| Elvis Merzlikins |
| Veini Vehvilainen |
| Artemi Panarin | Mika Zibanejad | PAvel Buchnevich |
| Chris Kreider | Ryan Strome | Jesper Fast |
| Brett Howden | Filip Chytil | Kaapo Kakko |
| Micheal Haley | Greg McKegg | Steven Fogerty |
| Jacob Trouba | Brady Skjei |
| Tony DeAngelo | Mark Staal |
| Adam Fox | Ryan Lindgren |
| Alexandar Georgiev |
| Henrik Lundqvist |