{"id":536899,"date":"2026-04-02T17:04:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/536899\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T17:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:04:15","slug":"nhl-game-preview-columbus-blue-jackets-at-carolina-hurricanes-with-line-combinations-04-02-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/536899\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Game Preview: Columbus Blue Jackets at Carolina Hurricanes with Line Combinations 04\/02\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Untitled-design-90.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Hector Urcia &#8211; Inside The Rink<\/p>\n<p>Columbus Blue Jackets (38-25-12, 88 pts) at Carolina Hurricanes (47-21-6, 100 pts)<\/p>\n<p>Venue: Lenovo Center<br \/>Date: Thursday, April 2<br \/>Time: 7:00 pm EST<br \/>How To Watch: ESPN+\/FDSN OH\/FDSN SO<br \/>Radio:\u00a097.1 The Fan, 93.3 The Bus, 1460 AM \/102.5 The Game <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ticketmaster.evyy.net\/c\/5142595\/264167\/4272?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ticketmaster.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Purchase tickets via Ticketmaster<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Columbus Blue Jackets News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jackets dropped their fourth straight on Tuesday to Carolina, 5-2. During their skid, they\u2019re averaging two goals per game while allowing 3.5 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p>Carolina Hurricanes News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">The Hurricanes got back in the win column with Tuesday\u2019s win over Columbus. They went 9-6-0 in March, averaging 3.7 goals per game while allowing 3.3 goals per game. <\/p>\n<p>Columbus Blue Jackets Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p>Marchment-Fantilli-Marchenko<br \/>Jenner-Monahan-Garland<br \/>Sillinger-Coyle-Heinen<br \/>Johnson-Lundestrom-Wood<\/p>\n<p>Werenski-Fabbro <br \/>Zamula-Provorov<br \/>Mateychuk-Gudbranson<\/p>\n<p>Greaves<br \/>Merzlikins<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/collections\/columbus-hockey?_pos=1&amp;_psq=colum&amp;_ss=e&amp;_v=1.0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get Your Columbus Hockey Merchandise Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Carolina Hurricanes Projected Lines<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">Svechnikov-Aho-Jarvis<br \/>Hall-Stankoven-Blake<br \/>Ehlers-Staal-Martinook<br \/>Carrier-Jankowski-Robinson<\/p>\n<p>Slavin-Chatfield<br \/>Miller-Walker<br \/>Gostisbehere-Nikishin<\/p>\n<p>Bussi<br \/>Andersen<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/search?q=Carolina&amp;options%5Bprefix%5D=last\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get your Carolina Hockey Merchandise Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Players To Watch:<\/p>\n<p>Columbus Blue Jackets<\/p>\n<p>Adam Fantilli has three points in two of the three games against Carolina this season, with a goal and two assists. <\/p>\n<p>Carolina Hurricanes<\/p>\n<p>Andrei Svechnikov has a point in all three games against Columbus this season. He has five points in the three games, with two goals and three assists.<\/p>\n<p>Injury Report:<\/p>\n<p>Columbus Blue Jackets<\/p>\n<p>D <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/tag\/brendan-smith\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brendan Smith<\/a> \u2013 IR<br \/>D Damon Severson \u2013 Out<br \/>F Dmitri Voronkov \u2013 Out<br \/>F Mathieu Olivier \u2013 DTD<\/p>\n<p>Carolina Hurricanes<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">D Charles-Alexis Legault \u2013 IR<br \/>G Pyotr Kochetkov \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/pyotr-kochetkov-probably-done-for-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">IR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next Game<\/p>\n<p>\tDiscover more from Inside The Rink<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:15px\">Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hector Urcia &#8211; Inside The Rink Columbus Blue Jackets (38-25-12, 88 pts) at Carolina Hurricanes (47-21-6, 100 pts)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5108],"tags":[1942,1742,3644,5180,29,897,230,5179,5,5236,2218,4,5573],"class_list":{"0":"post-536899","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-hockey","17":"tag-injury-report","18":"tag-metropolitan-division","19":"tag-nhl","20":"tag-nhl-game-preview"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116336209400549859","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536899","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=536899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}