{"id":480977,"date":"2026-03-02T15:22:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T15:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/480977\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T15:22:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T15:22:17","slug":"nhl-game-preview-columbus-blue-jackets-at-new-york-rangers-with-line-combinations-03-02-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/480977\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Game Preview: Columbus Blue Jackets at New York Rangers with Line Combinations 03\/02\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/NHL-Game-Preview-Columbus-Blue-Jackets-at-New-York-Rangers-with-Line-Combinations-03.02.2026.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"NHL Game Preview: Columbus Blue Jackets at New York Rangers with Line Combinations 03\/02\/2026\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>(Photo by: ESPN)<\/p>\n<p>Columbus Blue Jackets (29-21-8, 66 pts) at New York Rangers (23-29-7, 53 pts)<\/p>\n<p>Venue: Madison Square Garden<br \/>Date: Monday, March 2<br \/>Time: 7:00 pm EST<br \/>How To Watch: NHL Network, FDSNO, MSGN<br \/>Radio:\u00a097.1 The Fan, 93.3 The Bus, 1460 AM \/ 98.7 FM (WEPN-FM), 93.5 FM, 1450 AM<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ticketmaster.evyy.net\/c\/5142595\/264167\/4272?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ticketmaster.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Purchase tickets via Ticketmaster<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Columbus Blue Jackets News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jackets lost their last game on Saturday, 4-3 in overtime to the New York Islanders. In their last five games, the Blue Jackets have a 3-1-1 record, scoring 3.4 goals per game while allowing 2.2. They lost the first meeting with the Rangers 2-1 in a shootout back on November 15th.<\/p>\n<p>New York Rangers News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">The Rangers won their last game 3-2 in a shootout over the Penguins on Saturday. In their previous five games, the Rangers have a 1-3-1 record, scoring 2.2 goals per game while conceding three. The Rangers will look to improve to 2-0-0 over the Blue Jackets when they take the ice on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Columbus Blue Jackets Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p>Marchment-Fantilli-Marchenko<br \/>Jenner-Monahan-Heinen<br \/>Sillinger-Coyle-Olivier<br \/>Voronkov-Lundestrom-Wood<\/p>\n<p>Werenski-Severson<br \/>Provorov-Mateychuk<br \/>Fabbro-Gudbranson<\/p>\n<p>Merzlikins<br \/>Greaves<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/collections\/columbus-hockey?_pos=1&amp;_psq=colum&amp;_ss=e&amp;_v=1.0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get Your Columbus Hockey Merchandise Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>New York Rangers Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">Miller-Zibanejad-Perreault<br \/>Cuylle-Trocheck-Lafreniere<br \/>Kartye-Laba-Brisson<br \/>Sheary-Carrick-Raddysh<\/p>\n<p>Gavrikov-Fox<br \/>Schneider-Borgen<br \/>Robertson-Morrow<\/p>\n<p>Shesterkin<br \/>Quick<\/p>\n<p>Players To Watch:<\/p>\n<p>Columbus Blue Jackets<\/p>\n<p>Zach Werenski had an assist and led the Blue Jackets with five shots in the 2-1 shootout loss on November 15th against the Rangers.<\/p>\n<p>New York Rangers<\/p>\n<p>Mika Zibanejad had the only goal in regulation for the Rangers in their 2-1 victory over the Blue Jackets in their first meeting this season, back on November 15th.<\/p>\n<p>Injury Report:<\/p>\n<p>Columbus Blue Jackets<\/p>\n<p>D- <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/tag\/brendan-smith\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brendan Smith<\/a> \u2013 IR<\/p>\n<p>New York Rangers<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">F Matt Rempe\u00a0\u2013 IR<br \/>F\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/tag\/adam-edstrom\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Edstrom<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR<\/p>\n<p>Next Game<\/p>\n<p>\tDiscover more from Inside The Rink<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:15px\">Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/author\/jcgifford18d2e1cafa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1772464937_559_8db68b5dc1a6417474926df3f6d3c47ad5c5859e11a1a42050a5fdf654aba77b.jpeg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-75 photo\" height=\"75\" width=\"75\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/author\/jcgifford18d2e1cafa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JC Giff<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Father of 3, Bruins, Red Sox, Cubs, Liverpool, Syracuse football and Basketball Fan. Love Fantasy Football, Baseball and Hockey. If I am not at work, I either at an ice rink, Ball field or spending quality time with my family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Photo by: ESPN) Columbus Blue Jackets (29-21-8, 66 pts) at New York Rangers (23-29-7, 53 pts) Venue: Madison&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5111],"tags":[7288,10786,230,5,1664,160,3328,35,5190,5193,4,5573,36,2566],"class_list":["post-480977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-rangers","tag-adam-edstrom","tag-brendan-smith","tag-columbus-blue-jackets","tag-hockey","tag-matt-rempe","tag-mika-zibanejad","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-rangers","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkrangers","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-game-preview","tag-rangers","tag-zach-werenski"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116160269242585541","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480977","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=480977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}