Thursday, April 2, 2026 \u2013 7:00 PM ET
Lenovo Center \u2013 Raleigh, North Carolina
TV: FDSNOH; Radio: 97.1 FM<\/p>\n
Columbus Blue Jackets (38-25-12, 88 points, 4th Metro, 8th East)<\/p>\n
at<\/p>\n
Carolina Hurricanes (47-21-6, 100 points, 1st Metro, 1st East)<\/p>\n
The Hurricanes can clinch a playoff spot with a win tonight.<\/p>\n
The Blue Jackets may be without Mason Marchment and\/or Isac Lundestrom. Zach Aston-Reese was called up just in case.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, in the out of town scoreboard, we\u2019re keeping an eye on:<\/p>\n
Sabres at Senators (Buffalo can clinch a playoff berth tonight as well, so Go Sabres for multiple reasons)<\/p>\n
Penguins at Lightning (again, Bolts can clinch too)<\/p>\n
Bruins at Panthers (Go Cats, but with Boston now 6 points ahead of us, I don\u2019t think we\u2019re catching WC1)<\/p>\n
Red Wings at Flyers (just no overtime, please, but a Flyers win is probably better since we have the RW tiebreaker over them for now)<\/p>\n
Just win, baby<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, April 2, 2026 \u2013 7:00 PM ETLenovo Center \u2013 Raleigh, North CarolinaTV: FDSNOH; Radio: 97.1 FM Columbus…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5108],"tags":[3644,5180,897,230,5179,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-536760","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-hockey","14":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116335848063483680","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536760","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=536760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}