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Seattle Kraken<\/a> (31-28-9, in the Pacific Division) vs. Columbus Blue Jackets<\/a> (36-21-11, in the Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n

Columbus, Ohio; Saturday, 5 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Columbus Blue Jackets host the Seattle Kraken after Adam Fantilli<\/a> scored two goals in the Blue Jackets’ 6-3 win against the New York Rangers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Columbus has a 36-21-11 record overall and a 19-8-7 record on its home ice. The Blue Jackets have a 10-7-10 record in games decided by a goal.<\/p>\n

Seattle has a 14-14-4 record in road games and a 31-28-9 record overall. The Kraken have given up 204 goals while scoring 193 for a -11 scoring differential.<\/p>\n

The teams match up Saturday for the second time this season. The Blue Jackets won 2-1 in a shootout in the last matchup.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Charlie Coyle<\/a> has 17 goals and 38 assists for the Blue Jackets. Fantilli has six goals and six assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Chandler Stephenson<\/a> has 14 goals and 27 assists for the Kraken. Bobby McMann<\/a> has four goals and two assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Blue Jackets: 7-0-3, averaging 3.8 goals, 6.4 assists, 3.8 penalties and 10.7 penalty minutes while giving up 2.7 goals per game.<\/p>\n

Kraken: 4-6-0, averaging three goals, 5.1 assists, 2.7 penalties and 6.2 penalty minutes while giving up 3.1 goals per game.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Blue Jackets: Brendan Smith: out (knee).<\/p>\n

Kraken: Jaden Schwartz: out (face), Eeli Tolvanen<\/a>: day to day (undisclosed), Ryan Winterton<\/a>: day to day (illness).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seattle Kraken (31-28-9, in the Pacific Division) vs. Columbus Blue Jackets (36-21-11, in the Metropolitan Division) Columbus, Ohio;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[1942,3819,4461,1285,230,4154,56683,5,4188,285,4,36100,2686,234,5318],"class_list":["post-513052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-seattle-kraken","tag-adam-fantilli","tag-bobby-mcmann","tag-chandler-stephenson","tag-charlie-coyle","tag-columbus-blue-jackets","tag-eeli-tolvanen","tag-event_preview","tag-hockey","tag-kraken","tag-national-hockey-league","tag-nhl","tag-ryan-winterton","tag-seattle","tag-seattle-kraken","tag-seattlekraken"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116261280492620508","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513052","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=513052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}