{"id":413974,"date":"2026-01-18T08:12:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T08:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/413974\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T08:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T08:12:16","slug":"blue-jackets-4-penguins-3-shootout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/413974\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jackets 4, Penguins 3, shootout"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2022\u00a0Who: Penguins (22-14-10) vs. Blue Jackets (21-19-7)
\u2022\u00a0What: NHL regular season, Game 47
\u2022\u00a0When: 7:08 p.m.
\u2022\u00a0Where: PPG Paints Arena
\u2022 Goaltenders: Arturs Silovs (8-6-7, .892 SV%) vs. Elvis Merzlikins (7-7-1, .882 SV%)
\u2022\u00a0TV: SportNet Pittsburgh
\u2022 Stream:\u00a0SNP360<\/a>\u00a0(local)\u00a0ESPN+<\/a> (out-of-market)
\u2022 Radio: Penguins Radio Network<\/a>
\u2022 Boxscore: NHL.com
<\/a>\u2022 Media notes: Penguins<\/a> | Blue Jackets<\/a><\/p>\n

\u25ba FOLLOW ALONG<\/p>\n

\u2022 Final\/SO: Coyle scores winner.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 Round 3: Marchenko goes stick-side, Silovs stones him. Rust goes five-hole, stopped.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Round 2: Fantilli goes for five-hole, Silovs stops him. Chinakhov scores top shelf.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 Round 1: Johnson goes backhand to score, Crosby misses<\/p>\n

\u2022 This will be the seventh shootout for Silovs, he’s 1-5 and has stopped 5 of 16 attempts.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Entertaining overtime ends with the teams still tied, so it’ll be a shootout.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 Kindel does everything but score, Malkin robbed twice in tight.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 End third period: We’re heading to overtime, again versus the Blue Jackets.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 GOAL: Letang with the hard shot-pass to Crosby to the side of the net to tie the game at three with one minute to play.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 Puck flutters on Chinakhov rebound shot following Novak’s shot.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 Rust had a two chances, nothing else doing on the power-play.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 Kindel draws a holding penalty, Fantilli will sit for two.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 8:26 left, shots are tied at 20 for each club. Blue Jackets are aggressively attacking the puck carrier through the neutral zone.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 Fantilli find himself all alone against Silovs, wrist shot is stopped.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 Kulak blocks a shot with his skates, hobbles to the bench.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Four missed shots by the Penguins to begin this period, 15 for the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 Clifton with another scoring chance, this time shorthanded. What are we watching tonight?<\/p>\n

\u2022 The third period is underway. Penguins will have 1:22 of penalty-time to kill before they can get back into this game. The team is 16-0-2 against the Blue Jackets at home in their last 18.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 End second period: Blue Jackets controlled the play that period, outshooting the Penguins 13-8. Columbus had 12 scoring chances to the Penguins’ zero.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 38.6 seconds left in the period, Kulak heads to the penalty box for hooking.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 GOAL: Gudbranson point shot finds the back of the net through a screen as the puck deflected by Heinen for the goal. Blue Jackets, 3-2.<\/p>\n

\u2022 With 20 seconds left on the PK, St. Ivany can’t clear the zone off the boards resulting in defensive zone draw.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 Lizotte goes to the box for high-sticking Jenner as the puck was leaving the offensive zone. Columbus receives a power-play with 5:45 to play in the second period.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 After the whistle, Olivier skated over to say something to Wotherspoon. He’s not happy about the stick work on Werenski.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 Crosby and Malkin were weaving around the Columbus zone during four-on-four action. Crosby came off, Novak jumped on and got a good chance in the slot but missed the corner.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 Wotherspoon and Werenski sit for slashing. Olivier doesn’t like it, so we’ll see if anything happens.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 GOAL: Marchenko is given a gift by Kulak, who for reasons drifted towards the boards as Letang was battling for the puck. The puck moves by Letang but right to Marchenko who had all kinds of time as Crosby couldn’t cut off the angle. It feels like Marchenko scores at least once per game against the Penguins. Tied, 2-2.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Blue Jackets with a bit of a push back, getting some good looks on net.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 St. Ivany hesitates with the puck inside his own zone and Marchenko hunts down the puck in the corner. Those are the types of plays St. Ivany can’t allow to happen.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 Scoring change on Clifton’s goal, assist to Novak only. Blue Jackets kill the penalty and almost scored with Provorov out of the box all alone but he blew the slapper wide.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 Provorov sits for two-minutes, interference obstructing Kindel.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 Second period is underway.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 During five-on-five play, Penguins lead 26-12 in shot attempts, 13-6 scoring chances, and 6-3 high-danger chances.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 End first period: Penguins continued to put pressure on the Blue Jackets to end the period. Rust had a wakeup hit on Marchenko at center ice. Shots ended 11-4 in favor of the Penguins.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 GOAL: A wraparound clearing attempt by the Blue Jackets goes right to Crosby, who was all alone down below the goal line, and sends a pass to Rakell who was cutting in front, the one-timer goes over Merzlikins at 17:52.\u00a0Penguins, 2-1<\/p>\n

\u2022 Penguins have started to control the play, now leading 9-4 in shots with 5:45 left in the period.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 Malkin with a short pass to Clifton to spring him on mini-breakaway inside the offensive zone and Clifton showed why he’s a defensemen by not getting off a shot.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 GOAL: Connor Clifton wrists a shot by Merzlikins through a screen from just inside the red circle. That’s Clifton’s first of the season, assists to Malkin and Novak. Tied, 1-1.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Penguins couldn’t get setup in the zone and their first PP expires without a shot.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 Aston-Reese called for high-sticking Letang near the net as the Blue Jackets were maintaining possession in the Penguins’ defensive zone. Penguins will start the power-play after the TV timeout. Shots are tied at three.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 That was the 13th first goal of the game scored by the Blue Jackets in their last 17 games.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 GOAL: A point shot deflected to Aston-Reese, he swept the puck by Silovs scoring his first goal of the season, on a broken play at 2:42. Assists to Werenski and Gaunce.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 Faceoff: Penguins vs. Blue Jackets, 7:08 p.m., Crosby vs. Monahan<\/p>\n

\u2022 Dan Muse\u2019s\u00a0lines and pairings for the Penguins:<\/p>\n

Rickard Rakell – Sidney Crosby – Bryan Rust\u00a0
Egor Chinakhov – Tommy Novak – Evgeni Malkin\u00a0
Anthony Mantha – Ben Kindel – Justin Brazeau\u00a0
Connor Dewar – Blake Lizotte – Noel Acciari<\/p>\n

Brett Kulak – Kris Letang\u00a0
Parker Wotherspoon – Jack St. Ivany\u00a0
Ryan Shea – Connor Clifton<\/p>\n

\u2022 Rick Bowness\u2019\u00a0projected lines and pairings for the Blue Jackets:<\/p>\n

Cole Sillinger \u2013 Adam Fantilli \u2013 Kirill Marchenko\u00a0
Boone Jenner \u2013 Sean Monahan \u2013 Kent Johnson\u00a0
Dmitri Voronkov \u2013 Charlie Coyle \u2013 Mathieu Olivier\u00a0
Zach Aston-Reese \u2013 Brendan Gaunce \u2013 Danton Heinen<\/p>\n

Zach Werenski \u2013 Dante Fabbro\u00a0
Ivan Provorov \u2013 Damon Severson\u00a0
Egor Zamula \u2013 Erik Gudbranson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2022\u00a0Who: Penguins (22-14-10) vs. Blue Jackets (21-19-7)\u2022\u00a0What: NHL regular season, Game 47\u2022\u00a0When: 7:08 p.m.\u2022\u00a0Where: PPG Paints Arena\u2022 Goaltenders:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[230,32654,5,35431,118,99],"class_list":["post-413974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hockey","tag-columbus-blue-jackets","tag-feed-article","tag-hockey","tag-on-location","tag-penguins","tag-penguins-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115915099019594001","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413974","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=413974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}