Blue Jackets at Rangers
7:00 PM – Game Faceoff
One hour to go, no idea what to expect.
What we do know is that it’s been a long time since we’ve seen the Rangers, and it would be nice to get our souls back from that opening weekend. Man, that seems like a lifetime ago, doesn’t it? Remember when Brandon Saad scored on the Power Play? I was sure we were going to the playoffs at that moment.
Damn.
So far all we’ve seen is “paper moves” to get guys on the AHL roster for the playoffs. I am just going to go ahead and publish a projected lineup with Scott Hartnell and Fedor Tyutin in it because if I wait nothing will happen. If I put them in, they’ll probably get traded.
Projected Lineups
Columbus Blue Jackets
(26-29-8, 60 Points; 8th division, 14th conference)
| Boone Jenner | Brandon Dubinsky | Cam Atkinson |
| Scott Hartnell | Alexander Wennberg | Brandon Saad |
| Matt Calvert | William Karlsson | Nick Foligno |
| David Clarkson | Gregory Campbell | Jared Boll |
| Ryan Murray | Seth Jones |
| Cody Goloubef | David Savard |
| Fedor Tyutin | Dalton Prout |
| Joonas Korpisalo |
| Curtis McElhinney |
New York Rangers
(36-20-6, 78 Points; 2nd Division, 2nd Conference)
| Chris Kreider | Derek Stepan | Mats Zuccarello |
| J.T. Miller | Derick Brassard | Jesper Fast |
| Oscar Lindberg | Eric Staal | Kevin Hayes |
| Tanner Glass | Dominic Moore | Viktor Stalberg |
| Ryan McDonagh | Dan Girardi |
| Marc Staal | Dan Boyle |
| Keith Yandle | Kevin Klein |
| Antti Raanta |
| Henrik Lundqvist |