Carolina Hurricanes (46-21-6, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Columbus Blue Jackets (38-24-12, in the Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n
Columbus, Ohio; Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Columbus Blue Jackets play the Carolina Hurricanes after losing three games in a row.<\/p>\n
Columbus is 11-8-4 against the Metropolitan Division and 38-24-12 overall. The Blue Jackets are 13-3-5 in games they convert at least one power play.<\/p>\n
Carolina is 46-21-6 overall with a 16-4-1 record in Metropolitan Division games. The Hurricanes are 20-8-1 when scoring a power-play goal.<\/p>\n
The teams meet Tuesday for the third time this season. The Blue Jackets won the last meeting 5-1.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Kirill Marchenko has 25 goals and 36 assists for the Blue Jackets. Adam Fantilli has three goals and six assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Andrei Svechnikov has 26 goals and 36 assists for the Hurricanes. Nikolaj Ehlers has three goals and eight assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Blue Jackets: 5-3-2, averaging 2.7 goals, 4.5 assists, 3.6 penalties and 8.7 penalty minutes while giving up two goals per game.<\/p>\n
Hurricanes: 6-4-0, averaging 3.3 goals, 5.2 assists, 3.9 penalties and 8.8 penalty minutes while giving up 3.1 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Blue Jackets: Brendan Smith: out (knee), Mathieu Olivier: day to day (upper body), Dmitri Voronkov: out (upper-body), Damon Severson: out (upper-body).<\/p>\n
Hurricanes: Pyotr Kochetkov: out (hip).<\/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":"By The Associated Press Carolina Hurricanes (46-21-6, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Columbus Blue Jackets (38-24-12, in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5107],"tags":[194,29,5176,5,195,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-532108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-hurricanes","8":"tag-carolina","9":"tag-carolina-hurricanes","10":"tag-carolinahurricanes","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-hurricanes","13":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116321420973724470","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532108","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=532108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}