Columbus Blue Jackets (29-20-7, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Boston Bruins (32-20-5, in the Atlantic Division)<\/p>\n
Boston; Thursday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Boston Bruins host the Columbus Blue Jackets after Mikey Eyssimont scored two goals in the Bruins’ 5-4 shootout loss to the Florida Panthers.<\/p>\n
Boston is 32-20-5 overall and 21-8-1 in home games. The Bruins have a 28-8-4 record when scoring at least three goals.<\/p>\n
Columbus has a 14-12-3 record on the road and a 29-20-7 record overall. The Blue Jackets have an 8-7-6 record in games decided by a goal.<\/p>\n
Thursday’s game is the first meeting between these teams this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Morgan Geekie has 32 goals and 22 assists for the Bruins. Viktor Arvidsson has five goals over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Zachary Werenski has 20 goals and 42 assists for the Blue Jackets. Charlie Coyle has scored six goals and added seven assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Bruins: 6-1-3, averaging four goals, 7.1 assists, 5.3 penalties and 12.4 penalty minutes while giving up 3.4 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Blue Jackets: 9-1-0, averaging 3.8 goals, 5.6 assists, 3.4 penalties and 6.8 penalty minutes while giving up two goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Bruins: None listed.<\/p>\n
Blue Jackets: None listed.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Columbus Blue Jackets (29-20-7, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Boston Bruins (32-20-5, in the Atlantic Division) Boston; Thursday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5108],"tags":[15731,12086,15730,1251,3644,5180,897,230,5179,5,12399,4,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-471223","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-columbus-blue-jackets","8":"tag-app-around-maine","9":"tag-app-in-the-community","10":"tag-around-maine-more-maine-news","11":"tag-associated-press","12":"tag-blue-jackets","13":"tag-bluejackets","14":"tag-columbus","15":"tag-columbus-blue-jackets","16":"tag-columbusbluejackets","17":"tag-hockey","18":"tag-maine","19":"tag-nhl","20":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116131599843465395","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471223","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=471223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}