Columbus Blue Jackets (25-20-7, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Chicago Blackhawks (21-24-9, in the Central Division)<\/p>\n
Chicago; Friday, 8:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Blue Jackets -142, Blackhawks +119; over\/under is 6.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Chicago Blackhawks will try to stop a four-game slide when they take on the Columbus Blue Jackets.<\/p>\n Chicago is 21-24-9 overall and 11-13-5 in home games. The Blackhawks are 17-5-5 in games they score at least three goals.<\/p>\n Columbus is 11-12-3 in road games and 25-20-7 overall. The Blue Jackets have given up 171 goals while scoring 158 for a -13 scoring differential.<\/p>\n The teams meet Friday for the first time this season.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Ryan Donato has scored 11 goals with 10 assists for the Blackhawks. Ryan Greene has three goals and one assist over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Zachary Werenski has 19 goals and 38 assists for the Blue Jackets. Mason Marchment has seven goals and three assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Blackhawks: 3-5-2, averaging 1.9 goals, three assists, 3.1 penalties and 7.1 penalty minutes while giving up 2.7 goals per game.<\/p>\n Blue Jackets: 7-3-0, averaging 3.3 goals, 5.2 assists, three penalties and 6.3 penalty minutes while giving up 2.9 goals per game.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Blackhawks: None listed.<\/p>\n Blue Jackets: None listed.<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Columbus Blue Jackets (25-20-7, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Chicago Blackhawks (21-24-9, in the Central Division) Chicago; Friday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5115],"tags":[53556,301,521,37,96,5263,5,4,292,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-436114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-blackhawks","8":"tag-53556","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-blackhawks","11":"tag-chicago","12":"tag-chicago-blackhawks","13":"tag-chicagoblackhawks","14":"tag-hockey","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-nhl-hockey","17":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115983750607047524","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436114","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=436114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}