Preview: Blue Jackets Look for Big Break on Broadway

The Columbus Blue Jackets conclude their three-game road trip tonight at Madison Square Garden against the New York Rangers.

Columbus has earned three of four points so far, beating the Panthers last Thursday night and earning a hard-fought point in a shootout loss Saturday night in Tampa. It was a good test against the top team in the league. Said John Tortorella, "I thought that was probably the fastest we played through the game."

With Tampa threatening to pull away late, the Jackets scored two goals in the third period to force the equalizer and push things to the shootout before the Lightning won it there. The comeback speaks to Columbus' resiliency, but regardless, Monday night is a game the Jackets want to have.

The Rangers have struggled so far, occupying the latter rung of the Metropolitan since the start of the season, and enter Monday's contest against Columbus five points back.

Alain Vigneault's seat has gotten warm, but his bunch has won three-straight, including at Tampa last Thursday night.

Though it sounded like Cam Atkinson might be ready to play at home Tuesday against Nashville, Columbus placed him on IR Sunday, activating defenseman Gabriel Carlsson. Matt Calvert will also miss this game with injury.

Projected Lineups

Artemi Panarin	Nick Foligno	Josh Anderson
Boone Jenner	Brandon Dubinsky	Tyler Motte
Markus Hannikainen?	Alexander Wennberg	Oliver Bjorkstrand
Sonny Milano	Pierre-Luc Dubois	Zac Dalpe?

Zach Werenski	Seth Jones
Jack Johnson	David Savard
Ryan Murray	Markus Nutivaara

Sergei Bobrovsky

Joonas Korpisalo

Chris Kreider	Mika Zibanejad	Pavel Buchnevich
Rick Nash	Kevin Hayes	Mats Zucarello
Jimmy Vesey	Paul Carey	J.T. Miller
Michael Grabner	Boo Nieves	Jesper Fast

Marc Stall	Ryan McDonagh
Brady Skjei	Kevin Shattenkirk
Nick Holden	Brendan Smith

Henrik Lundqvist

Ondrej Pavelec