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CBJ G1– Arizona? LIVE VLOG TONIGHT

October 14, 2021, 6:42 PM ET [1 Comments]
Zak MacMillan
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Update: 10:10PM

CBJ (1-0-0) defeat ARI 8-2.

Video blog to come


https://youtu.be/BXMMgcUk61Y

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As opening week continues to prod Fred’s around the hockey world, Columbus takes center stage tonight in their home opener against the Arizona Coyotes at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio.

Two of the youngest and weakest teams in the league will be debuting new players, captains, coaches, and captains for this contest tonight.

Let’s take a deeper dive into the Coyotes, who I have in last in the Western Conference and the Central Division based on my offseason and opening night prediction blogs. The Coyotes are in full scorched burning the franchise to a crisp with the moves made this summer to rebuild.

This offseason Arizona has moved on from:

- G Adin Hill
- G Darcy Kuemper
- LD Oliver Ekman-Larsson
- RW Connor Garland
- C Lane Pederson
- C Tyler Steenbergen
- LW Brayden Burke
- C Christian Dvorak
- LD Aaron Ness
- LD Niklas Hjarlmasson
- LD Alex Gologski
- RD Jason Demers
- C Emil Petterson
- RW Marian Hossa
- C Derrick Brassard
- LD Jordan Osterle
- G Antti Raanta
- C John Hayden
- C Frederick Gauthier
- LW Dryden Hunt
- LW Nate Sucese
- RD Jordan Gross
- C Michael Chaput
- LW Michael Bunting
- 2022 7th Round Pick (ARI)
- 2022 7th Round Pick (STL)
- 2023 7th Round Pick (ARI)

Here are all the big pieces Arizona has brought in for the years to come

- G Josef Korenar
- G Carter Hutton
- LW Andrew Ladd
- LD Shayne Ghostibehere
- LW Loui Eriksson
- LW Antoine Roussel
- C Jay Beagle
- LW Bokondji Imama
- LD Cole Hunts
- LD Vladislav Kolyachonok
- RD Anton Stralman
- RD Connor Timmins
- LW Liam O’Brien
- LW Ryan Dzingel
- RW Dimitri Jaskin
- LW Michael Carconne
- G Anson Thornton
- C Alex Galchenyuk
- 2021 1st Round Pick (VAN #9 LW Dylan Guenther)
- 2021 2nd Round Pick (COL RD Janis Moser)
- 2021 7th Round Pick (MTL LW Sam Lipkin)
- 2022 1st Round Pick (COL)
- 2022 1st Round Pick (CAR or MTL)
- 2022 2nd Round Pick (PHI)
- 2022 2nd Round Pick (SJ)
- 2022 2nd Round Pick (COL or NYI)
- 2022 2nd Round Pick (VAN)
- 2023 Conditional 3rd Round Pick (NYI)
- 2023 7th Round Pick (VAN)
- 2024 2nd Round Pick (MTL)
- 2024 2nd Round Pick (FLA)
- 2024 Conditional 3rd Round Pick (COL)
- 2024 4th Round Pick (SJ)
- HC Andre Tourigny

A lot of youth and overpaid talent has come to the land of the misfortune in Arizona in the midst of their rebuild, with almost everyone on expiring or one year deals. Andre Tourigny is also debuting for Arizona after spending the last couple of seasons with the Ottawa 67s of the Ontario Hockey League.

For Columbus, we get the NHL debuts of Cole Sillinger and Yegor Chinakov. Chinakov was drafted in 2020, 21st overall ; Sillinger was drafted 12th overall in 2021. Sean Kuraly makes his hometown Columbus debut alongside Adam Boqvist and Jake Bean. Returning to the Columbus lineup is Jakub Voracek, Max Domi, and Guatav Nyqvist. We also get the head coaching debut for Brad Larsen and company in Columbus.

Projected Lineups

Arizona Coyotes

Lawson Crouse—Nich Schmaltz—Clayton Keller
Ryan Dzingel—Johan Larsson—Loui Eriksson
Christian Fischer—Jay Beagle—Dimitri Jaskin
Antoine Roussel—Travis Boyd—Andrew Ladd

Jakob Chychrun—Connor Timmins
Shayne Gostisbehere—Anton Stralman
Ilya Lyubushkin—Victor Soderstrom

Carter Hutton
Josef Korenar

Scratched— Liam O’Brien, Vladislav Provolnev
Injured— Phil Kessel, Alex Galchenyuk, Kyle Capobianco

Columbus Blue Jackets

Patrik Laine—Alexandre Texier—Jakub Voracek
Gustav Nyqvist—Jack Roslovic—Oliver Bjorkstrand
Boone Jenner—Cole Sillinger—Max Domi
Eric Robinson—Sean Kuraly—Gregory Hoffman

Zach Werenski—Jake Bean
Vladislav Gavrikov—Adam Boqvist
Dean Kukan—Andrew Peeke

Elvis Merzlikins
Jonas Korpisalo

Scratched — Yegor Chinakov, Emil Bemstrom, Scott Harrington
Injured— Nathan Gerbe


Players to Watch

ARI — Jakob Chychrun — The new franchise player of the desert is their new top left handed defenseman in the offensive defenseman. He is on an island and level of his own on the team and in the league, and could draw more to the team in the coming years.

CBJ — Cole Sillinger — the rookie is making his debut tonight in the NHL with the captain as protection on his side. He has earned his nine game trail after production all preseason and in the rookie tournament in Traverse City, Michigan. The kid is a star and will be full time soon, but this is nice to enjoy the game and fun with him here in the present.


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