Winnipeg Jets (32-31-12, in the Central Division) vs. Columbus Blue Jackets (38-26-12, in the Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n
Columbus, Ohio; Saturday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Columbus Blue Jackets look to end their five-game slide when they play the Winnipeg Jets.<\/p>\n
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Columbus is 38-26-12 overall and 20-10-8 at home. The Blue Jackets have an even scoring differential this season, scoring and giving up 234 goals.<\/p>\n
Winnipeg has gone 14-17-6 on the road and 32-31-12 overall. The Jets have gone 29-9-8 in games they score at least three goals.<\/p>\n
The teams meet Saturday for the second time this season. The Jets won 5-2 in the last meeting.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Charlie Coyle has 18 goals and 38 assists for the Blue Jackets. Adam Fantilli has three goals and five assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
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Gabriel Vilardi has 28 goals and 34 assists for the Jets. Mark Scheifele has four goals and seven assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Blue Jackets: 4-5-1, averaging 2.8 goals, 4.8 assists, 3.6 penalties and 8.4 penalty minutes while giving up 2.6 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Jets: 5-3-2, averaging 2.7 goals, 4.7 assists, 2.9 penalties and 7.5 penalty minutes while giving up 2.9 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Blue Jackets: Brendan Smith: out (knee), Mathieu Olivier: out (upper body), Mason Marchment: day to day (undisclosed), Dmitri Voronkov: out (hand), Damon Severson: out (upper-body).<\/p>\n
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Jets: Nino Niederreiter: out (lower body), Vladislav Namestnikov: out (lower body), Colin Miller: out (knee), Elias Salomonsson: day to day (undisclosed).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Jets (32-31-12, in the Central Division) vs. Columbus Blue Jackets (38-26-12, in the Metropolitan Division) Columbus, Ohio;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5108],"tags":[1942,3644,5180,10786,1843,1285,13015,897,230,5179,8744,6815,2095,3937,5,3522,862,6813,2218,4,1189,2222,3935,18],"class_list":{"0":"post-538286","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-blue-jackets","10":"tag-bluejackets","11":"tag-brendan-smith","12":"tag-central-division","13":"tag-charlie-coyle","14":"tag-colin-miller","15":"tag-columbus","16":"tag-columbus-blue-jackets","17":"tag-columbusbluejackets","18":"tag-damon-severson","19":"tag-dmitri-voronkov","20":"tag-elias-salomonsson","21":"tag-gabriel-vilardi","22":"tag-hockey","23":"tag-mark-scheifele","24":"tag-mason-marchment","25":"tag-mathieu-olivier","26":"tag-metropolitan-division","27":"tag-nhl","28":"tag-nino-niederreiter","29":"tag-the-jets","30":"tag-vladislav-namestnikov","31":"tag-winnipeg-jets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116340333220472714","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538286","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=538286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}