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Chicago Blackhawks @ Columbus Blue Jackets
7:00PM Eastern/6:00 Central
Nationwide Arena, Columbus OH
CSN-Chicago, FS-Ohio/WGN Radio



THE BUZZ

The other night on CSN, analyst Denis Savard called tonight's game in Columbus an almost sure victory for the Hawks. I'm not going there. The Blue Jackets have played the Hawks tough this year, and don't look now, they're 5-1 over their last 6.

Sergei Bobrovsky appears to have taken over the #1 goalie job and the Blue Jackets team appears to have rallied around him. They've bought into Coach Todd Richards method of hard work and defense and now it's paying off.

To get a point or two, the Hawks will need to be the team that dominated the latter two periods Sunday against Edmonton, rather than the flat, lazy, stick wavers that cost that game and the previous one against Colorado.


PROJECTED LINEUPS

NICK FOLIGNO RJ UMBERGER RYAN JOHANSEN
VINNY PROSPAL MARK LETESTU DERICK BRASSARD
MATT CALVERT BRANDON DUBINSKY CAM ATKINSON
JARED BOLL COLTON GILLIES NICK DRAZENOVIC

JACK JOHNSON FEDOR TYUTIN
NIKITA NIKITIN DALTON PROUT
TIM ERIXON ADRIAN AUCOIN

SERGEI BOBROVSKY


CHICAGO

BRANDON SAAD JONATHAN TOEWS MARIAN HOSSA
JIMMY HAYES DAVE BOLLAND PATRICK KANE
BRYAN BICKELL ANDREW SHAW VIKTOR STALBERG
DAN CARCILLO MARCUS KRUGER MICHAL FROLIK

BRENT SEABROOK DUNCAN KEITH
NIKLAS HJALMARSSON JOHNNY ODUYA
SHELDON BROOKBANK NICK LEDDY

COREY CRAWFORD



STATS


5-ON-5 GOAL DIFFERENTIAL
Chicago, 2nd
Columbus, 25th

POWER PLAY
Chicago, 14th
Columbus, 29th

PENALTY KILL
Chicago, 6th
Columbus, 5th

BLOCKED SHOTS
Chicago, 18th
Columbus, 25th

TAKEAWAYS
Chicago, 1st
Columbus, 26th

FACEOFF %
Chicago, 18th
Columbus, 10th


All for now,


JJ

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