{"id":527972,"date":"2026-03-28T18:54:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T18:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/527972\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T18:54:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T18:54:22","slug":"blue-jackets-elvis-merzlikins-set-to-face-san-jose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/527972\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jackets&#8217; Elvis Merzlikins: Set to face San Jose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774569736_806_video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nhl\/teams\/CLB\/columbus-blue-jackets\/\" aria-label=\"home team page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"TeamLogo-image\" alt=\"team logo\" src=\"https:\/\/sports.cbsimg.net\/fly\/images\/team-logos\/399.svg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nhl\/players\/3107125\/merzlikins\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Merzlikins<\/a> is set to start against San Jose on Saturday, per Jeff Svoboda of the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nhl\/teams\/CLB\/columbus-blue-jackets\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Jackets<\/a>&#8216; official site.<\/p>\n<p>Merzlikins stopped 15 of 17 shots in a 5-2 win over Seattle in his most recent start last Saturday. He has a 14-9-3 record, 3.35 GAA and .885 save percentage in 28 outings in 2025-26. San Jose has lost its past six games (0-5-1) to drop to 32-31-7 on the season. The Sharks have also managed just five goals over their past four games.<\/p>\n<p>        More News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Merzlikins is set to start against San Jose on Saturday, per Jeff Svoboda of the Blue Jackets&#8216; official&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5108],"tags":[3644,5180,897,230,5179,7819,276,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-527972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-columbus-blue-jackets","8":"tag-blue-jackets","9":"tag-bluejackets","10":"tag-columbus","11":"tag-columbus-blue-jackets","12":"tag-columbusbluejackets","13":"tag-elvis-merzlikins","14":"tag-fantasy-hockey","15":"tag-hockey","16":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116308323920046954","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527972","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=527972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}