Tuesday, February 25, 2025 – 7:00 PM EST
Nationwide Arena – Columbus, OH
TV: FDSNOH; Radio: 97.1 FM
Dallas Stars (37-18-2, 76 points, 2nd Central, 2nd West)
at
Columbus Blue Jackets (27-22-8, 62 points, 4th Metro, 9th East)
After getting a win against the bottom team in the Central division, the Jackets will hope to even their season series against one of the contenders from the West’s strongest division.
Player to Watch
Denton Mateychuk
Against Chicago, Denton scored his second goal of the season and led the CBJ in 5v5 ice time. He’s been solid since being called up from Cleveland but are we starting to see Mateychuk figure out the NHL game and will the scoring follow?
Jackets Notes
A Zach Werenski interview will be featured on the “What Chaos!” podcast today, a hockey show covering the league started by Pete Blackburn in Boston.
Playoffs chances may have begun started to slip away before the break but, getting Marchenko, Fabbro, and Jenner back in addition to Gudbranson and Monahan starting to skate, puts Columbus right back in the race. Let’s take a peek at the playoff chances for the Jackets from a few of the predictive models:
Hockeyviz: 31.1%
Dom @ the Athletic: 29 %
MoneyPuck: 13.5%
BetMGM: +400 (20% chance)
Season Series
2/02/2025 CBJ 3 @ DAL 5
02/25/2025 DAL @ CBJ
Stats
| Dallas | Columbus | |
| 3.3 (4) | GPG | 3.25 (9) |
| 2.51 (3) | GAPG | 3.26 (25) |
| 20.6% (21) | PP% | 21.6 (16) |
| 85.0 (2) | PK% | 75.3 (25) |
| 51.17 (10) | 5v5 Shot Attempt % | 47.3 (29) |
| 50.46 (13) | 5v5 Unblocked Shot Attempt % | 47.89 (25) |
| 9.65 (5) | 5v5 Shooting % | 10.14 (3) |
| 91.69 (13) | 5v5 Save % | 90.83 (20) |
| Robertson/Duchene, 23 | G Leader | Kirill Marchenko, 21 |
| Matt Duchene, 36 | A Leader | Zach Werenski, 44 |
| Matt Duchene, 59 | P Leader | Zach Werenski, 62 |
| Jamie Benn, 60 | PIM Leader | Mathieu Olivier, 99 |
| 17-11-1 | Home/Road | 18-6-4 |
| 8-1-1 | Last 10 | 5-4-1 |
Projected Lineups
Columbus Blue Jackets
| Dmitri Voronkov | Adam Fantilli | Kirill Marchenko |
| Boone Jenner | Cole Sillinger | Kent Johnson |
| Zach Aston-Reese | Justin Danforth | Mathieu Olivier |
| James van Riemsdyk | Sean Kuraly | Joe LaBate |
| Zach Werenski | Dante Fabbro |
| Denton Mateychuk | Ivan Provorov |
| Jake Christiansen | Damon Severson |
| Elvis Merzlikins |
| Daniil Tarasov |
Dallas Stars
| Jason Robertson | Roope Hintz | Mavrik Bourque |
| Mason Marchment | Matt Duchene | Mikael Granlund |
| Jamie Benn | Wyatt Johnson | Evgenii Dadonov |
| Oskar Back | Sam Steel | Colin Blackwell |
| Thomas Harley | Cody Ceci |
| Esa Lindell | Ilya Lyubushkin |
| Lian Bischel | Matt Dumba |
| Jake Oettinger |
| Casey DeSmith |