Game Thread: Columbus Blue Jackets (20-37-6) at Pittsburgh Penguins (31-22-9) – 07 Mar 2023 – 07:00PM EST

#Columbus [](/r/bluejackets) Blue Jackets (20-37-6) at Pittsburgh [](/r/penguins) Penguins (31-22-9)

#PPG Paints Arena

##Time

|PT|MT|CT|ET|AT|
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|04:00PM|05:00PM|06:00PM|07:00PM|08:00PM|##Watch, Listen and Talk:

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|TV|ATTSN-PT, BSOH|
|Listen|[CBJ](https://www.nhl.com/video/c-000999129) – [PIT](https://www.nhl.com/video/c-00099915)|
|Other-Away|[Preview](http://BlueJackets.nhl.com/gamecenter/en/preview?id=2022021013) – [Boxscore](http://BlueJackets.nhl.com/gamecenter/en/boxscore?id=2022021013) – [Recap](http://BlueJackets.nhl.com/gamecenter/en/recap?id=2022021013)|
|Other-Home|[Preview](http://Penguins.nhl.com/gamecenter/en/preview?id=2022021013) – [Boxscore](http://Penguins.nhl.com/gamecenter/en/boxscore?id=2022021013) – [Recap](http://Penguins.nhl.com/gamecenter/en/recap?id=2022021013)|
|GameCenter|[On NHL.com](https://www.nhl.com/gamecenter/2022021013)|

###Projected Lineups

||Left|Center|Right||Left|Center|Right|
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|[](/r/penguins)|Jake Guentzel|Sidney Crosby|Rickard Rakell|[](/r/bluejackets)|Johnny Gaudreau|Boone Jenner|Kirill Marchenko|
|[](/r/penguins)|Jason Zucker|Evgeni Malkin|Bryan Rust|[](/r/bluejackets)|Kent Johnson|Jack Roslovic|Patrik Laine|
|[](/r/penguins)|Drew O’Connor|Mikael Granlund|Jeff Carter|[](/r/bluejackets)|Eric Robinson|Cole Sillinger|Mathieu Olivier|
|[](/r/penguins)|Danton Heinen|Nick Bonino|Josh Archibald|[](/r/bluejackets)|Liam Foudy|Lane Pederson|Emil Bemstrom|

||Left D|Right D||Left D|Right D|
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|[](/r/penguins)|Brian Dumoulin|Kris Letang|[](/r/bluejackets)|Tim Berni|Erik Gudbranson|
|[](/r/penguins)|Marcus Pettersson|Jeff Petry|[](/r/bluejackets)|Nick Blankenburg|Andrew Peeke|
|[](/r/penguins)|Dmitry Kulikov|Jan Rutta|[](/r/bluejackets)|Gavin Bayreuther|Adam Boqvist|

||Goalies||Goalies|
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|[](/r/penguins)|Tristan Jarry|[](/r/bluejackets)|Elvis Merzlikins|
|[](/r/penguins)|Casey DeSmith|[](/r/bluejackets)|Michael Hutchinson|

###Injuries

||Player|Date|Injury|Status|Details|Return|
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|[PIT](/r/penguins)|Samuel Poulin||Not Injury Related|OUT||01 Apr 2023|
|[PIT](/r/penguins)|Ryan Poehling|17 Feb 2023|Upper Body|OUT|Poehling (upper body) suffered a setback during Thursday’s morning skate, Matt Vensel of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports.|09 Mar 2023|
|–|–|–|–|–|
|[CBJ](/r/bluejackets)|Sean Kuraly|03 Mar 2023|Oblique|OUT|Kuraly suffered an oblique injury in practice Thursday and will miss the next six weeks.|14 Apr 2023|
|[CBJ](/r/bluejackets)|Justin Danforth||Shoulder|IR|Surgery|01 May 2023|
|[CBJ](/r/bluejackets)|Alexandre Texier||Personal|OUT||01 Jul 2023|
|[CBJ](/r/bluejackets)|Jake Bean||Shoulder|IR||01 May 2023|
|[CBJ](/r/bluejackets)|Zach Werenski|03 Mar 2023|Shoulder|IR-LT|Not Specified|15 Sep 2023|

###Team Stats

|Team|GP|W|L|OT|P|P%|G/G|GA/G|PP%|PK%|S/G|SA/G|FO%|
|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
|[Penguins](/r/penguins)|62|31|22|9|71|57.2|3.2258|3.19354|20.8|79.6|33.66129|33.95161|52.2|
|[Blue Jackets](/r/bluejackets)|63|20|37|6|46|36.5|2.57142|3.69841|17.3|76.5|29.03174|35.11111|48.4|

###Team Leaders

|Stat||Player|Value||Player|Value|
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|G|[](/r/penguins)|Sidney Crosby|27|[](/r/bluejackets)|Patrik Laine|19|
|A|[](/r/penguins)|Sidney Crosby|46|[](/r/bluejackets)|Johnny Gaudreau|40|
|P|[](/r/penguins)|Sidney Crosby|73|[](/r/bluejackets)|Johnny Gaudreau|55|
|+/-|[](/r/penguins)|Pierre-Olivier Joseph|11|[](/r/bluejackets)|Billy Sweezey|1|
|PIM|[](/r/penguins)|Marcus Pettersson|50|[](/r/bluejackets)|Mathieu Olivier|79|
|TOI|[](/r/penguins)|Kris Letang|24:06|[](/r/bluejackets)|Zach Werenski|23:35|

#In-Game Updates

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