Columbus Blue Jackets (38-25-12, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Carolina Hurricanes (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 has 24 goals and 40 assists for the Hurricanes. Andrei Svechnikov 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 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: out (upper body), Dmitri Voronkov: out (hand), Damon Severson: out (upper-body).<\/p>\n
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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 Columbus Blue Jackets (38-25-12, in the Metropolitan Division) vs. Carolina Hurricanes (47-21-6, 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-536258","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\/116334260490833179","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536258","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=536258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536258\/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=536258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}