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Preview: Blue Jackets vs. Blackhawks


GAME 3: BLUE JACKETS VS. BLACKHAWKS

NATIONWIDE ARENA, 7 P.M.

TV: FOX SPORTS OHIO / FOX SPORTS GO

RADIO: 97.1 FM / BLUEJACKETS.COM / CBJ APP

SETTING THE STAGE: If there's any group prepared to return again on the ice and return again to perform, it's the Red Overcoats.

As in any year, there are eccentricities in the routine and they are at the center of one: after their Weekend evening game against the Sharks, the Red Overcoats did not have another game planned until tonight's fight with the Blackhawks.

That's almost weekly without activities, and they've only performed two.

Needless to say, this is a game for Columbus (0-2-0) as it looks to crack out and get in the win line. Not supporting the issue is having to sit on its winless history all 7 days lengthy, while some groups have performed two activities in plenty of your energy they've organised three methods. But regardless of the routine and how it's set up, the responsibility is on gamers to go out and do their job.

Could there be collection changes? It certainly seems that way, at least for the house group.

For one, He Murray will down part into the collection after losing Saturday's game with a reduced body system damage - caused by preventing a try in the third interval of Columbus' year operator. He is likely to couple with Seth Jackson, while Zach Werenski will be placed on the remaining part of a coupling with Bob Savard on the right.

NOTEWORTHY NEWS: Columbus placed defenseman Cody Goloubef on waivers Saturday, significance the program is to get him to Cleveland (AHL) if he opens up at mid-day Saturday. The Red Overcoats currently have eight in good health defensemen on the list, so there was not the possibility to get Goloubef into the collection - and as he tries to return again into game form following an indirect damage, getting referrals is exactly what he needs to do. David Tortorella said the group would create up your mind on Saturday's beginning goalkeeper in Facilities following tonight's game against Chicago, illinois, which will be began by Sergei Bobrovsky.

PROJECTED CBJ LINEUP:

Matt Calvert - Brandon Dubinsky - Cam Atkinson

Brandon Saad - Alexander Wennberg - Chip Foligno

Scott Hartnell - Bill Karlsson - Josh Anderson

Boone Jenner - Lukas Sedlak/Sam Gagner - Oliver Bjorkstrand

Ryan Murray - Seth Jones

Zach Werenski - Bob Savard

Jack Brown - Markus Nutivaara

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