Blue Jackets at Canucks – 10:00 PM
Game Faceoff
Just look at the lead-in from our friends over at Nucks Misconduct:
Oh boy, is this gonna be fun. The Canucks, after what seems like a month off finally get back into action as they attempt to salvage their season, and they’ll kick it off against Crabby McScreamyface aka 1 and done ex-coach John Tortorella.
I mean. Tell me the building isn’t going to be loud tonight. Torts might feel it in his ribs.
It’s clear that the hiring of Torts in Vancouver was destined never to work out. It’s a veteran-laden team, and Torts is more successful working from the ground up with young teams. There probably is some truth to the fact that he’s “mellowed out”
with the year off. Even still, expect the Nucks’ faithful to get their pound of flesh.
For the Jackets, no major (apparent) roster moves at the outset, outside of Justin Falk taking a seat and Cody Goloubef drawing in (which should prompt cheers from many of you).
The crazy thing from Tuesday night is that the Jackets out-shot and out-Corsi’d the Oil at EV over the course of the game… which they lost 5-1. If you look at the shot event chart for just the second period, the Jackets murdered Edmonton on the stat sheet… and gave up four unanswered goals. In other words, I don’t know what to make of that game.
It would be nice to see the results on paper borne out on the ice tonight, if that’s a repeatable stat line.
Projected Lineups
Columbus Blue Jackets
(19-28-5, 43 Points; 8th division, 15th conference)
Boone Jenner | Brandon Dubinsky | Cam Atkinson |
Brandon Saad | Alexander Wennberg | Nick Foligno |
Scott Hartnell | William Karlsson | Matt Calvert |
Kerby Rychel | Gregory Campbell | Rene Bourque |
Ryan Murray | Seth Jones |
Jack Johnson | Cody Goloubef |
Fedor Tyutin | Dalton Prout |
Joonas Korpisalo |
Anton Forsberg |
Vancouver Canucks
(20-19-11, 51 Points; 5th Division, 11th Conference)
Daniel Sedin | Henrik Sedin | Jannik Hansen |
Sven Baertschi | Bo Horvat | Radim Vrbata |
Alex Burrows | Linden Vey | Emerson Etem |
Derek Dorsett | Brandon Sutter | Jake Virtanen |
Alexander Edler | Chris Tanev |
Matt Bartkowski | Alex Biega |
Ben Hutton | Luca Sbisa |
Ryan Miller |
Jacob Markstrom |