#Columbus [](/r/bluejackets) Blue Jackets (23-41-7) at Montreal [](/r/habs) Canadiens (28-38-6)
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###Projected Lineups
||Left|Center|Right||Left|Center|Right|
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|[](/r/habs)|Rafael Harvey-Pinard|Nick Suzuki|Mike Hoffman|[](/r/bluejackets)|Johnny Gaudreau|Boone Jenner|Kirill Marchenko|
|[](/r/habs)|Jonathan Drouin|Kirby Dach|Denis Gurianov|[](/r/bluejackets)|Liam Foudy|Jack Roslovic|Kent Johnson|
|[](/r/habs)|Rem Pitlick|Jake Evans|Brendan Gallagher|[](/r/bluejackets)|Eric Robinson|Sean Kuraly|Lane Pederson|
|[](/r/habs)|Michael Pezzetta|Chris Tierney|Alex Belzile|[](/r/bluejackets)|Hunter McKown|Emil Bemstrom||
||Left D|Right D||Left D|Right D|
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|[](/r/habs)|Michael Matheson|David Savard|[](/r/bluejackets)|Adam Boqvist|Erik Gudbranson|
|[](/r/habs)|Joel Edmundson|Justin Barron|[](/r/bluejackets)|Tim Berni|Andrew Peeke|
|[](/r/habs)|Johnathan Kovacevic|Chris Wideman|[](/r/bluejackets)|Gavin Bayreuther|Nick Blankenburg|
||Goalies||Goalies|
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|[](/r/habs)|Jake Allen|[](/r/bluejackets)|Elvis Merzlikins|
|[](/r/habs)|Samuel Montembeault|[](/r/bluejackets)|Michael Hutchinson|
###Injuries
||Player|Date|Injury|Status|Details|Return|
|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|:–:|
|[MTL](/r/habs)|Josh Anderson|21 Mar 2023|Ankle|OUT|Sprain|15 Sep 2023|
|[MTL](/r/habs)|Kaiden Guhle|18 Mar 2023|Ankle|OUT|Sprain|15 Sep 2023|
|[MTL](/r/habs)|Christian Dvorak|09 Mar 2023|Knee|OUT|Dvorak underwent knee surgery Wednesday and will miss the remainder of the season.|01 Jul 2023|
|[MTL](/r/habs)|Jordan Harris|09 Mar 2023|Lower Body|DTD|Harris (lower body) will not be an option for Thursday’s matchup with Boston, Arpon Basu of The Athletic reports.|unknown|
|[MTL](/r/habs)|Joel Armia|21 Feb 2023|Illness|DTD|Armia (illness) isn’t expected to play Thursday versus Florida.|unknown|
|[MTL](/r/habs)|Juraj Slafkovský||Lower Body|IR||18 Apr 2023|
|[MTL](/r/habs)|Arber Xhekaj|18 Feb 2023|Shoulder|IR|Surgery|15 Sep 2023|
|[MTL](/r/habs)|Cole Caufield||Shoulder|IR||15 Sep 2023|
|[MTL](/r/habs)|Sean Monahan|25 Feb 2023|Lower Body|IR-LT|Monahan (lower body) will not travel with the Montreal Canadiens on their upcoming road trip, Eric Engels of Sportsnet.ca reports.|27 Mar 2023|
|[MTL](/r/habs)|Paul Byron||Hip|IR-LT|Not Specified|06 Apr 2023|
|[MTL](/r/habs)|Carey Price||Knee|IR-LT||01 Jul 2023|
|–|–|–|–|–|
|[CBJ](/r/bluejackets)|Erik Gudbranson|24 Mar 2023|Upper Body|OUT|Gudbranson (upper body) will not return to Friday’s game against the New York Islanders, Aaron Portzline of The Athletic reports.|01 Apr 2023|
|[CBJ](/r/bluejackets)|Nick Blankenburg|24 Mar 2023|Lower Body|DTD|Blankenburg left Friday’s game against the New York Islanders because of a lower-body injury, per Jeff Svoboda of the Columbus Blue Jackets’ official site.|unknown|
|[CBJ](/r/bluejackets)|Mathieu Olivier|24 Mar 2023|Lower Body|OUT|Olivier suffered a lower-body injury and won’t return to Friday’s game versus the New York Islanders.|28 Mar 2023|
|[CBJ](/r/bluejackets)|Patrik Laine|24 Mar 2023|Triceps|OUT|Laine suffered a triceps strain at practice Thursday and is expected to miss 2-4 weeks, as reports.|08 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%|
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|[Canadiens](/r/habs)|72|28|38|6|62|43.0|2.76388|3.69444|17.0|72.6|27.375|33.90277|48.7|
|[Blue Jackets](/r/bluejackets)|71|23|41|7|53|37.3|2.7183|3.88732|19.6|75.9|29.83098|35.28169|48.1|
###Team Leaders
|Stat||Player|Value||Player|Value|
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|G|[](/r/habs)|Cole Caufield|26|[](/r/bluejackets)|Boone Jenner|25|
|A|[](/r/habs)|Nick Suzuki|35|[](/r/bluejackets)|Johnny Gaudreau|49|
|P|[](/r/habs)|Nick Suzuki|57|[](/r/bluejackets)|Johnny Gaudreau|67|
|+/-|[](/r/habs)|Rafael Harvey-Pinard|6|[](/r/bluejackets)|Hunter McKown|1|
|PIM|[](/r/habs)|Arber Xhekaj|101|[](/r/bluejackets)|Mathieu Olivier|81|
|TOI|[](/r/habs)|Mike Matheson|24:16|[](/r/bluejackets)|Zach Werenski|23:35|
### Goalie Breakdown
||Name|GP|GS|W|L|OT|SO|GAA|SV%|
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|[](/r/habs)|Jake Allen|41|40|14|24|3|1|3.57|0.89093|
|[](/r/habs)|Sam Montembeault|33|32|14|14|3|0|3.31|0.90493|
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|[](/r/bluejackets)|Elvis Merzlikins|29|26|7|17|2|0|4.09|0.87976|
|[](/r/bluejackets)|Joonas Korpisalo|28|26|11|11|3|0|3.17|0.91252|
Columbus stole a point from the Islanders yesterday when we need the latter to stay ahead of the Panthers, so the least they could do for us is win this game too.
Hoping we go like 2-7-1 or something now where it’s not crazy depressing to watch but we barely pick up any points
Other games of significance today:
Flyers vs. Red Wings
Rangers vs. Panthers
Sabres vs. Islanders (the rare double back-to-back)
Capitals vs. Penguins
Grosse game à soir.
man the bottom 4 are within 3 points of each other, then next up is us with 6 points more lmao. A couple more losses like the Pittsburgh or Tampa games would have at least put us in the running for bottom 3. Oh well, if we stay bottom 5 that’s fine too
This is a bad game all around for the tank and fans of hockey because if we lose, Columbus passes Chicago and nobody wants Chicago having better odds for Bedard. We’re probably not dropping much if at all in the standings by the end of the season, so losing also doesn’t really benefit us. And if we win, then we’re that much closer to Arizona and Philadelphia who we could reasonably pass by the end of the season.
Not a chance we lose this game. Will never happen, ever. Monty will stand on his head and steal the game.
Someone’s getting a hatty….I can feel it
lol that injury list
Be nice to beat these guys for a change