Chicago Blackhawks at Columbus Blue Jackets – Preview & Game Thread

  

Chicago Blackhawks (27-27-8, 62 points) at Columbus Blue Jackets (30-26-5, 65 points)

7:00PM Eastern/6:00 Central

RADIO: WGN 720

TV: NBCSCH

 

PROJECTED GOALIES:

Arizona:
Sergei Bobrovsky (25-20-5 W-L | 2.45 GAA | 0.919 SV% | 4 SO)

Chicago:
Anton Forsberg (7-12-3 W-L | 2.90 GAA | 0.910 SV% | 0 SO)

 

PROJECTED LINES/PAIRINGS:

Columbus

Artemi PanarinPierre-Luc DuboisCam Atkinson
Boone JennerAlexander WennbergOliver Bjorkstrand
Matt CalvertBrandon DubinskyJosh Anderson
Markus HannikainenLukas SedlakZac Dalpe

Zach WerenskiSeth Jones
Jack JohnsonRyan Murray
Scott HarringtonDavid Savard

Chicago

Brandon SaadJonathan ToewsTommy Wingels
Tomas JurcoArtem AnisimovPatrick Kane
Anthony DuclairNick SchmaltzAlex DeBrincat
Ryan HartmanDavid KampfVinnie Hinostroza

Duncan KeithJordan Oesterle
Erik GustafssonJan Rutta
Connor MurphyBrent Seabrook

STATISTICAL COMPARISONS:

Power play:
Columbus – 14.1% (31st)
Chicago – 15.8% (29th)

Penalty kill:
Columbus – 76.3% (27th)
Chicago – 82.7% (6th)

Corsi For % (5-on-5):
Columbus – 51.7% (7th)
Chicago – 53.5% (3rd)

Faceoffs:
Columbus – 47.7% (28th)
Chicago – 49.5% (19th)

 

SUMMARY:

The Blackhawks come into this game after a solid 3-1 win the previous night against the San Jose Sharks, at the United Center. They will travel to Columbus for this game and then return home for a short four day break, before heading out to San Jose on Thursday 3/1, following the trade deadline.

This may be the last time you see some of the players that will be in the lineup tonight. If reports come true, players like Tommy Wingels, Lance Bouma, and even Artem Anisimov could be playing elsewhere by Monday’s trade deadline.

Anisimov would be interesting, because the rumor has been that these very Blue Jackets would be the team trying to acquire him.

As far as the game goes, the Blackhawks will be facing that very familiar name of Artemi Panarin. As far as the rest of the team goes, they are are struggling much like the Blackhawks. In fact, they are only three points apart as far as records go. The difference is that Columbus is hanging on to the second wild card spot in their conference, while the Blackhawks sit ten points behind the second wild card spot in their conference.

The Blue Jackets went from one of the top power play teams in the league, last season, to being even worse than the terribly inept Blackhawks power play, if you can imagine that.

If you’re at the game, go find Jaeckel and throw Ju-Ju Bees at him.

Chicago Blackhawks at Columbus Blue Jackets - Preview & Game Thread

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Jeff has covered the Blackhawks since 2009 with his former website www.puckinhostile.com and podcast The Puckin Hostile Shoutcast until 2017, when he moved over to The Rink. After a short hiatus to cover the inaugural Seattle Kraken season, he came back to Blackhawks coverage and started "The Net Perspective" podcast to discuss goaltending and goaltender development.

     

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  • #5573
    Jeff Osborn
    Keymaster

    Chicago Blackhawks (27-27-8, 62 points) at Columbus Blue Jackets (30-26-5, 65 points) 7:00PM Eastern/6:00 Central RADIO: WGN 720 TV: NBCSCH   PRO
    [To continue reading full article, click here: Chicago Blackhawks at Columbus Blue Jackets – Preview & Game Thread]

    #5575
    DK002
    Participant

    Nice write up Jeff…how many points for Panarin tonight…another awful move by Bowman (oh wait they’re all awful) doh!

     

    #5579
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    Should be a good recap.

    Amazing that the BJs have a worse PP with Panarin on board. How does that happen?

    #5584
    Mister Ricochet
    Participant

    Jody Shelley has turned into a solid color guy.  He stunk out loud for a couple yrs but IMO solid now, objective too.  Reminds me of Ed Farmer.  Only got the job cuz he’d work for 10 bucks an hr and Reinhorn can’t resist that so the bastard jammed Farmer down Sox fans’ throat.  But Farmer is solid now IMO.

    #5585
    Mister Ricochet
    Participant

    Gerbe:  Last NHL player 5ft 4in or smaller to play in the bigs was like 50-60 yrs ago.

    #5586
    Mister Ricochet
    Participant

    [quote quote=5579]Should be a good recap. Amazing that the BJs have a worse PP with Panarin on board. How does that happen?

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    One of those things.  I think they were a top 5 PP last yr.  Adding an even more skilled guy can change a dynamic for the worse sometimes.  Did they lose an assistant who ran the PP last yr?

    #5587
    Mister Ricochet
    Participant

    Great effort by Oesterle to get back on the speedy Atkinson!!

    #5588
    Mister Ricochet
    Participant

    Hawks tied for the league lead with Rado for PP opportunities.  CLB PK, 27th.

    #5589
    Mewirtz
    Participant

    Once again pp kills momentum

    #5590
    6628
    Participant

    Get a lotto ticket, Jerco scored.

    #5591
    Mister Ricochet
    Participant

    AA causing traffic, Jurco finishes………

    #5592
    6628
    Participant

    I fucking hate butterfly goalies that think a good move is to fall flat on their stomache. With a passion.

    #5593
    Mister Ricochet
    Participant

    Damn Dcat!!  That was horrific.

    #5594
    John Jaeckel
    Participant

    [quote quote=5573]Chicago Blackhawks (27-27-8, 62 points) at Columbus Blue Jackets (30-26-5, 65 points) 7:00PM Eastern/6:00 Central RADIO: WGN 720 TV: NBCSCH PRO[To continue reading full article, click here: Chicago Blackhawks at Columbus Blue Jackets – Preview & Game Thread]

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    Gate makes prettier previews than I do.

    #5595
    John Jaeckel
    Participant

    [quote quote=5584]Jody Shelley has turned into a solid color guy. He stunk out loud for a couple yrs but IMO solid now, objective too. Reminds me of Ed Farmer. Only got the job cuz he’d work for 10 bucks an hr and Reinhorn can’t resist that so the bastard jammed Farmer down Sox fans’ throat. But Farmer is solid now IMO.

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    Jody’s a nice guy, too.

    #5596
    Chico Maki
    Participant

    ACK!!   That was pathetic. Forsberg keeping the tank alive.

     

     

    #5597
    John Jaeckel
    Participant

    [quote quote=5596]ACK!! That was pathetic. Forsberg keeping the tank alive.

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    soft

    #5598
    Mewirtz
    Participant

    There goes Foley with that “Tirty tree and tird” crap. Blackhawks should flush everything, including Foley and Konroyd and that idiotic credit card commercial

    #5599
    6628
    Participant

    Hey JJ, if you attend the game whose sweater do you wear?

    #5601
    hawkeytalk
    Participant

    I must say, after the last few games the Q post game pressers have been more revealing than they have been all year. Flat out called Hartman out for his penalty, called the team out for not finishing a good amount of offensive scoring chances all season long (in other words the feeling the hawks have  bad puck luck luck this year isn’t really just bad luck), and also called out Forsberg for his softie tonight.

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