{"id":534397,"date":"2026-04-01T08:51:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T08:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/534397\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T08:51:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T08:51:13","slug":"blue-jackets-come-into-matchup-with-the-hurricanes-on-losing-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/534397\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jackets come into matchup with the Hurricanes on losing streak"},"content":{"rendered":"

Columbus Blue Jackets<\/a> (38-25-12, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Carolina Hurricanes<\/a> (47-21-6, in the Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n

Raleigh, North Carolina; Thursday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Columbus Blue Jackets are looking to stop their four-game slide with a win against the Carolina Hurricanes.<\/p>\n

Carolina is 17-4-1 against the Metropolitan Division and 47-21-6 overall. The Hurricanes have gone 20-8-1 in games they convert at least one power play.<\/p>\n

Columbus is 38-25-12 overall with an 11-9-4 record in Metropolitan Division play. The Blue Jackets are 13-3-5 in games they convert at least one power play.<\/p>\n

The matchup Thursday is the fourth time these teams play this season. The Hurricanes won 5-2 in the previous matchup.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Nikolaj Ehlers<\/a> has 24 goals and 40 assists for the Hurricanes. Andrei Svechnikov<\/a> has four goals and four assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Zachary Werenski has 21 goals and 57 assists for the Blue Jackets. Adam Fantilli<\/a> has scored three goals with six assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Hurricanes: 6-4-0, averaging 3.4 goals, 5.2 assists, 3.6 penalties and 8.2 penalty minutes while giving up 2.9 goals per game.<\/p>\n

Blue Jackets: 5-4-1, averaging 2.8 goals, 4.8 assists, 3.9 penalties and 9.3 penalty minutes while giving up 2.2 goals per game.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Hurricanes: Pyotr Kochetkov: out (hip).<\/p>\n

Blue Jackets: Brendan Smith: out (knee), Isac Lundestrom: day to day (undisclosed), Mathieu Olivier<\/a>: out (upper body), Dmitri Voronkov<\/a>: out (hand), Damon Severson<\/a>: out (upper-body).<\/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":"Columbus Blue Jackets (38-25-12, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Carolina Hurricanes (47-21-6, in the Metropolitan Division) Raleigh, North…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5108],"tags":[1942,1742,3644,5180,29,897,230,5179,8744,6815,56683,5,6813,285,4,794],"class_list":{"0":"post-534397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-columbus-blue-jackets","8":"tag-adam-fantilli","9":"tag-andrei-svechnikov","10":"tag-blue-jackets","11":"tag-bluejackets","12":"tag-carolina-hurricanes","13":"tag-columbus","14":"tag-columbus-blue-jackets","15":"tag-columbusbluejackets","16":"tag-damon-severson","17":"tag-dmitri-voronkov","18":"tag-event_preview","19":"tag-hockey","20":"tag-mathieu-olivier","21":"tag-national-hockey-league","22":"tag-nhl","23":"tag-nikolaj-ehlers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116328600939608281","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534397","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=534397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}