{"id":398577,"date":"2026-01-09T00:39:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T00:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/398577\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T00:39:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T00:39:11","slug":"lines-notes-how-to-watch-vs-blue-jackets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/398577\/","title":{"rendered":"Lines, Notes, & How to Watch vs Blue Jackets"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Thursday, the Vegas Golden Knights (18-11-12) play the first of a brief two-game homestand. They\u2019ve struggled as of late, but will look to build off a hard-fought win north of the border. They\u2019ll face the Columbus Blue Jackets (18-17-7) at T-Mobile Arena.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Puck drop is scheduled for 7:08 p.m. PST.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Golden Knights last played on Tuesday against the Winnipeg Jets. They fell behind by two, but clawed their way back into the fight and\u00a0won 4-3 in overtime<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Blue Jackets last played on Tuesday against the San Jose Sharks. Despite a late push, they\u00a0fell 5-2<\/a>\u00a0after allowing two empty net goals.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Carter Hart starts in net for the Golden Knights. Hart has a 5-4-1 record and an average save percentage of .904 in 10 career games against the Blue Jackets.<\/p>\n

Jet Greaves starts in net for the Blue Jackets. Greaves has a record of 0-1-0 and a .885 save percentage in one career game against the Golden Knights.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Golden Knights Lines<\/p>\n

Ivan Barbashev \u2014 Jack Eichel \u2014 Mark Stone
Brandon Saad \u2014 Mitch Marner \u2014 Reilly Smith
Brett Howden \u2014 Tom\u00e1\u0161 Hertl \u2014 Keegan Kolesar
Pavel Dorofeyev \u2014 Colton Sissons \u2014 Braedan Bowman<\/p>\n

Defense<\/p>\n

Noah Hanifin \u2014 Zach Whitecloud
Jeremy Lauzon \u2014 Kaedan Korczak
Ben Hutton \u2014 Dylan Coghlan<\/p>\n

Goaltenders: Carter Hart \/ Akira Schmid<\/p>\n

Blue Jacket Lines<\/p>\n

Dmitri Voronkov \u2014 Adam Fantilli \u2014 Kirill Marchenko
Boone Jenner \u2014 Sean Monahan \u2014 Kent Johnson
Cole Sillinger \u2014 Charlie Coyle \u2014 Mathieu Olivier
Zach Aston-Reese \u2014 Brendan Gaunce \u2014 Mikael Pyyhti\u00e4<\/p>\n

Defense<\/p>\n

Zach Werenski \u2014 Denton Mateychuk
Ivan Provorov \u2014 Damon Severson
Egor Zamula \u2014 Dante Fabbro<\/p>\n

Goaltenders: Jet Greaves \/ Elvis Merzlikins<\/p>\n

Special Teams<\/p>\n

VGK power play: 25.2%, 5th
VGK penalty kill: 81.8%, T7th<\/p>\n

Blue Jackets power play: 17.9%, T20th
Blue Jackets penalty kill: 76.0%, 29th<\/p>\n

Golden Knights Game Notes<\/p>\n

This season, the Golden Knights won their first matchup against the Blue Jackets by a score of 3-2. They are 8-6-1 against the Blue Jackets all-time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mark Stone is on a career-high five-game goal streak.<\/p>\n

Brett Howden is riding a three-game point streak.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Zach Werenski leads the Blue Jackets in scoring this season with 16 goals and 45 points in 38 games. Werenski has a goal and 9 points in 13 career games against the Golden Knights.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Jack Eichel leads the Golden Knights in scoring this season with 12 goals and 43 points in 41 games. Eichel has 11 goals and 24 points in 23 career games against the Blue Jackets.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Milestone alert! On Tuesday, Jack Eichel reached 400 career assists with his secondary assist on Tom\u00e1\u0161 Hertl\u2019s overtime game-winning goal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Golden Knights have a record of 8-6-6 at the Fortress this season; the Blue Jackets are 9-10-3 on the road.\u00a0<\/p>\n

How to Watch<\/p>\n

TV: Vegas 34
Streaming:\u00a0KnightTime+<\/a>
Radio: FOX Sports Las Vegas 98.9\/1340<\/p>\n

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\t\tHannah Kirkell is a beat writer covering the Vegas Golden Knights for Vegas Hockey Now on Sportsnaut. She studied … More about Hannah Kirkell<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Thursday, the Vegas Golden Knights (18-11-12) play the first of a brief two-game homestand. They\u2019ve struggled as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5129],"tags":[88,230,149,5317,5,1040,4,74,39,5316],"class_list":{"0":"post-398577","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vegas-golden-knights","8":"tag-carter-hart","9":"tag-columbus-blue-jackets","10":"tag-golden-knights","11":"tag-goldenknights","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-mark-stone","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-vegas","16":"tag-vegas-golden-knights","17":"tag-vegasgoldenknights"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115862357032731300","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}