Blue Jackets forward Miles Wood is considered “week-to-week” after suffering a lower-body injury in Columbus’ 3-2 loss to the New Jersey Devils on Dec. 31.

After placing Wood on the injured reserve, the club called up recently acquired forward Danton Heinen from the American Hockey League’s Cleveland Monsters. Heinen was part of the return in a Dec. 29 trade that sent Yegor Chinakhov to the Pittsburgh Penguins.

Wood, 30, has eight goals and four assists in 32 games this season. The most recent game in which he registered a point was a Dec. 6 loss to the Florida Panthers. Wood had a goal and an assist in that 7-6 overtime defeat.

He has been a regular in the Blue Jackets lineup this season playing on the third and fourth lines, but last season when he was a member of the Colorado Avalanche, Wood battled a nagging back issue. It limited him to 37 games.

“Knowing back problems and talking to players who have dealt with the same thing,” Wood said at the time, “it’s going to be something I have to take care of probably throughout the rest of my career.”

Werenski makes Olympic roster

Team USA named Blue Jackets defenseman Zach Werenski to their 25-player roster for the 2026 Olympic Winter Games this February in Milano Cortina, Italy. 

Werenski leads Columbus with 40 points and 26 assists this season, and despite missing several games with an apparent ankle injury, he also enters Saturday’s home faceoff against Buffalo tied with forward Kirill Marchenko for the team lead in goals with 14.

Blue Jackets goaltender Elvis Merzlikins was named to Latvia’s roster earlier this year. He and Werenski are the 14th and 15th Blue Jackets players selected to participate in the Olympic Games.

Previous Blue Jackets Olympians:

Forward Artem Anisimov (Russia-2014)Goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky (Russia-2014)Defenseman Adam Foote (Canada-2006)Right wing Marian Gaborik (Slovakia, 2014-DNP injury)Defenseman Jan Hejda (Czech Republic-2010)Defenseman Milan Jurcina (Slovakia-2010),Left wing Fredrik Modin (Sweden-2010)Left wing Rick Nash (Canada-2006, 2010 gold)Defenseman Nikita Nikitin (Russia-2014)Center Samuel Pahlsson (Sweden-2010)Defenseman Radoslav Suchy (Slovakia-2006)Defenseman Fedor Tyutin (Russia-2010, 2014)Right wing David Vyborny (Czech Republic-2006 bronze).