Nashville Predators at Columbus Blue Jackets
Saturday, March 9, 2024- 12:30 PM ET
Nationwide Arena, Columbus OH
TV: Bally’s Sports Ohio – Radio: WBNS FM
Opponent’s blog: On the Forecheck
Nashville Predators, 36-25-3, 75 points, 4th Central, 7th West
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Columbus Blue Jackets, 22-31-10, 54 points, 8th Metro, 16 East
The Columbus Blue Jackets, now without Jack Roslovic and Andrew Peeke thanks to the trade deadline, look to take on the Nashville Predators in an early Saturday afternoon matchup.
Trey Fix-Wolansky earned a call up.
Player to Watch
Jusse Saros
Season Series
03/09/2024 NSH @ CBJ
04/13/2024 CBJ @ NSH
Stats
| Nashville | Columbus | |
| 3.17 (15) | GPG | 2.98 (21) |
| 3.08 (18) | GAPG | 3.66 (31) |
| 19.5% (19) | PP% | 14.5% (31) |
| 76.4% (24) | PK% | 76.4% (25) |
| 50.48% (17) | 5v5 Shot Attempt % | 48.21% (22) |
| 49.61% (17) | 5v5 Unblocked Shot Attempt % | 47.64% (21) |
| 8.34% (20) | 5v5 Shooting % | 9.43% (6) |
| .921 (7) | 5v5 Save % | .911 (21) |
| Filip Forsberg, 30 | G Leader | Boone Jenner, 19 |
| Roman Josi, 46 | A Leader | Johnny Gaudreau, 35 |
| Filip Forsberg, 64 | P Leader | Johnny Gaudreau, 45 |
| Jeremy Lauzon, 86 | PIM Leader | Erik Gudbranson, 59 |
| 18-10-2 | Home/Road | 12-16-4 |
| 8-1-1 | Last 10 | 5-5-0 |
Projected Lineups
Columbus Blue Jackets
| Johnny Gaudreau | Boone Jenner | Trey Fix-Wolansky |
| Alexandre Texier | Cole Sillinger | Alex Nylander |
| Yegor Chinakhov | Dmitri Voronkov | Kirill Marchenko |
| Justin Danforth | Sean Kuraly | Mathieu Olivier |
| Zach Werenski | Adam Boqvist |
| Ivan Provorov | Damon Severson |
| Jake Bean | Erik Gudbranson |
| Elvis Merzlikins |
| Daniil Tarasov |
Nashville Predators
| Filip Forsberg | Ryan O’Reilly | Gustav Nyquist |
| Denis Gurianov | Colton Sissons | Cody Glass |
| Mark Jankowski | Tommy Novak | Luke Evangelista |
| Cole Smith | Michael McCarron | Kiefer Sherwood |
| Roman Josi | Dante Fabbro |
| Ryan McDonagh | Luke Schenn |
| Jeremy Lauzon | Alexandre Carrier |
| Juuse Saros |
| Kevin Lankinen |