The Columbus Blue Jackets are returning to the ice tonight to do battle with the Washington Capitals in the first of their back to back games. The Capitals are in their second of back to back, after shutting out Detroit last night. The Jackets take the ice for the first time in six days, and then have three games in 4 nights at home.

Projects Lineups via Daily Faceoff

Washington Capitals

Alexander Ovechkin—Evgney Kuznetsov—Tom Wilson
Axel Johnson-Fjallby—Lars Eller—Garnet Hathaway
Connor Sheary—Connor McMichael—Daniel Sprong
Carl Hagelin—Aliaksei Protas—Brett Leason

Martin Fehervary—John Carlson
Dimirty Orlov—Nic Jensen
Trevor van Reimsdyk—Justin Schultz

Ilya Samsonov
Zach Fucale

Injured: Nicolas Backstrom, TJ Oshie, Vitek Vancek, Anthony Mantha

Columbus Blue Jackets

Yegor Chinakov—Cole Sillinger—Jakub Voracek
Gustav Nyqvist—Boone Jenner—Oliver Bjorkstrand
Gregory Hoffman—Jack Roslovic—Kevin Stenlund
Eric Robinson—Sean Kuraly—Alexandre Texier

Zach Werenski—Jake Bean
Vladislav Gavrikov—Gavin Bayreuther
Gabriel Carlsson—Andrew Peeke

Joonas Korpisalo
Elvis Merzlikins

Scratched: Scott Harrington
Injured: Max Domi, Patrik Laine, Emil Bemstrom, Nathan Gerbe, Trey Fix-Wolansky, Dean Kukan

Updated 7:25pm

Blue Jackets center Sean Kuraly pots his first as a part of the Columbus organization. The hometown boy gets the help from Alexandre Texier and Eric Robinson on the goal. Strong start from the fourth line of Columbus tonight.


Updated 7:28pm

Capitals winger Alexander Ovechkin tied the game at 1-1 with his 12th goal of the season. It is also his milestone goal to surpass Hall of Famer Brett Hull for 4th all time with 742 career goals


Updated 7:50pm

First intermission. Tied at 1-1


Updated 8:40pm

Garnet Hathaway scores seconds into the second to make it 2-1 Washington with his second of the season. Forwards Brett Leason and Lars Eller had the assists.

Hathaway added to the lead with his third of the year with the team’s third goal of the game; Eller and Ovi had the helpers.

Kuraly added to his goal production with his second goal of his Columbus career. Voracek added with his 11th assist in a Columbus uniform this season.

Nyqvist got on the board with his second of the year with a backhander to tie the game at 3.


End 2 tied 3-3


Update 8:55pm


Start of the third

Update 9:30pm

With just 90 seconds left, Connor Sheary pots his second of the year to make it 4-3 DC.


The score is final 4-3 Washington.


Updated 9:50pm

Ilya Samsonov has stopped 26 of 27 shots for a 0.897 save percentage.

Washington winger Axel Johnson-Fjallby earned his first NHL career point against Columbus. Seeing his development blossom, this is a bittersweet moment to see even at the cost of Korpisalo and the Jackets’ two points. After losing him for a couple days off the waiver wire to Buffalo, he has become Hershey’s top forward with the Bears and slowly becoming a draft pick steal for Washington.

Alexander Ovechkin is now at 12 goals in 13 games, and now is solo at 4th place in the all time scoring in the NHL. The greatest goal scorer in the our generation


Update 11:50pm

Sean Kuraly, the Dublin, Ohio native, got his first two goals in his tenure with Columbus in the home building tonight. What a moment for him to also get his goals in a new uniform and city, and it not be in Boston. The fourth line center man was the star that shined the brightest for Columbus.

Joonas Korpisalo got the short end of the stick, in yet another loss for the net minder that has been through it all in Columbus. Between Forsberg, Bobrovsky, McElhinney, and Merzlikins, he has seen them all here in his career.


Columbus Blue Jackets 3 Stars of the Night

1. Sean Kuraly— 2 goals (2)

2. Gustav Nyqvist— goal (2)

3. Jakub Voracek — assist (11)

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