Coyotes to Watch

«  RW Clayton Keller, who leads the team in all scoring categories with 21-29-50 in 55 games played, has recorded 3-6-9  with three multi-point efforts in his last five games entering Saturday night’s contest at Los Angeles.

«  LW Matias Maccelli enters Saturday’s contest against the Kings ranking second-T among NHL rookies in assists and sixth in points with 3-22-25 in 37 appearances in 2022-23.

All-Time Series

«  Columbus has gone 29-29-6 in 64 all-time meetings vs. Arizona, including 13-15-4 on the road.

«  The Blue Jackets are 10-3-0 against the Coyotes dating back to Nov. 14, 2015, outscoring the club 46-35 over that stretch.

«  CBJ have won six-straight games at Arizona and seven of the last eight on the road against the Coyotes dating back to the 2013-14 season.

«  The winning team has scored four or more goals in six of the last seven games in the series, including each of the last four meetings.

«  CBJ own seven of the 12 shutouts in the all-time series, including the most recent one by Sergei Bobrovsky on Dec. 9, 2017 (35 saves in 1-0 W at CBJ).

«  Each team has recorded two hat tricks in the series with Bryan Berard (Jan. 5, 2006) and Matt Calvert (Feb. 25, 2011) recording the Blue Jackets ones.

This Season (CBJ, 0-1-0)

«  Oct. 25, 2022 – ARI 6, at CBJ 3

«  Feb. 19, 2023 – at Arizona (8:30 p.m. ET)

Player Notables vs. Coyotes

«  LW Johnny Gaudreau – 12-18-30 in 29 career GP, including a six-game points streak (6-5-11) and goals in 3-straight games played (4-4-8).

«  C Boone Jenner – 7-4-11 in 15 career GP, including multiple points in two of his last three contests at Arizona (3-1-4).

«  LW Patrik Laine – 2-7-9 in 11 career GP, including 0-4-4 in his last four contests against the Coyotes.

«  D Andrew Peeke – 1-1-2 in 3 career GP, including a goal against Arizona earlier this season on Oct. 25, 2022.

«  C Jack Roslovic – 1-4-5 in 9 career GP, including 0-3-3 in his past three outings against the club.

«  C Cole Sillinger – 0-2-2 in 3 career GP, including an assist in the contest on Oct. 25, 2022.

BLUE JACKETS TEAM NOTES

• Columbus won it’s second-straight game and improved to 3-1-0 in its last four contests and 5-4-2 in the past 11 games after beating the Dallas Stars on Saturday.
• The club concludes its 11^th of 17 back-to-back sets of the campaign on Sunday at Arizona.
• Trailing 1-0 to Winnipeg on Thursday, the Blue Jackets earned their ninth comeback victory of the campaign. The club had come-from-behind to win in each of its last four victories after trailing 2-0 and 3-2 in a 5-3 win vs. San Jose (Jan. 21), 2-1 in a 3-2 OT win at Edmonton (Jan. 25), 2-0 in a 4-3 win at Toronto (Feb. 11) and 1-0 in the 3-1 win vs. Winnipeg prior to downing Dallas 4-1.
• Thursday’s game against the Jets kicked off a stretch of six-straight games against the Western Conference for the Blue Jackets.  The stretch that runs from February 16-26, includes four consecutive contests against the Central Division.
• CBJ have now killed off 36-of-43 opponent power play chances over the last 16 games since January 12 (83.7 pct.).
• The Jackets have scored on 7-of-31 chances over their last 11 contests dating back to January 21 (22.6 pct.).
• Columbus blueliners have registered 8-19-27 in the last 17 contests and 24-60-84 in 56 games this season.
• With F Liam Foudy’s goal against Dallas, every player on the 22-man active roster has scored a goal in 2022-23.  The club has had a League-high 26 different goal scorers this season.
• CBJ rookies have combined for 20-15-35 over the last 25 games and lead all NHL teams in goals and rank second in points with 33-33-66 in 56 contests in 2022-23.  It’s the tied for the third-most goals scored by team rookies in franchise history (2000-01) and trailing only 2017-18 (37) and 2019-20 (35). RW Kirill Marchenko (14) and C Kent Johnson (12) are the third pair of rookie teammates to score double digit goals in a single season in club history, joining C Serge Aubin (13) and RW David Vyborny (13) in 2000-01 and C Pierre-Luc Dubois (20) and LW Sonny Milano (14) in 2017-18.

BLUE JACKETS PLAYER NOTES

• D Adam Boqvist notched a goal at Dallas and has collected points in three-straight outings (2-2-4).  He has picked up 2-6-8 with two multi-point efforts in his last eight appearances and 2-11-13 in his past 16 contests.  With 2-12-14 in 24 games, he’s two assists shy of tying his single-season career high (35 GP with Chicago in 2020-21).
• LW Johnny Gaudreau missed his first game of the season with the team in Dallas with a lower body injury, snapping the third-longest Iron Man streak in the NHL at 349 games.  He has collected points three-straight contests played (1-2-3) and nine of his last 11 games (3-8-11).  He leads the team in assists and points and ranks second-T in goals with 15-37-52 in 55 contests this season.  He set the franchise record for fewest games played to record 50 career points (53 GP), surpassing the mark set by Ray Whitney (56 GP).
• C Boone Jenner picked up his team-leading 16^th goal of the season against Winnipeg.  He has recorded points in three of his last four games (2-2-4) and 5-3-8 in his last 11 outings to boost his season totals to 16-14-30 in 45 contests. 
• C Kent Johnson scored his third game-winning goal of the season against the Jets – the most by a Blue Jackets player this season and tied for the fourth-most by a rookie in a single season in franchise history.  He now has registered 2-1-3 in his last four outings and 4-4-8 in his past 11 contests.  He ranks fourth-T among League rookies in points and fifth-T in goals with 12-15-27 in 53 games.
• G Joonas Korpisalo has turned aside 65-of-67 shots (.970 SV%) in victories over Winnipeg and Dallas this week and has posted a 6-5-2 record with a 2.78 GAA and .923 SV% in 15 games dating back to December 9.
• C Sean Kuraly, who skated in his 400^th career NHL game on Thursday and collected two assists on Saturday, leads the team and ranks 15^th among NHL forwards in hits with 139 in 54 contests this season.
• LW Patrik Laine notched his 10^th multi-point game of the season on Thursday with 1-1-2 and now has 6-12-18 in his last 17 contests (overall, 15-19-34 in 41 GP).
• RW Kirill Marchenko ranks second among NHL rookie goal scorers in 2022-23 with 14-1-15 in 33 games but leads League rookies in goals and ranks fourth-T in points since making his NHL debut on December 6.
• RW Mathieu Olivier, who notched his first career multi-point effort with 1-2-3 against Dallas, has set single-season career highs with 4-8-12 in 51 games.
• D Andrew Peeke ranks 12^th-T in the NHL in blocked shots this season (118) and has registered a block shot in 48 of his 51 contests this season.
• C Jack Roslovic has collected assists in two-straight games and three of the last four games while picking up 3-21-24 in 35 games since December 1.

BLUE JACKETS MILESTONES

• GM Jarmo Kekalainen is nine games from 800 for his NHL GM career.
• D Gavin Bayreuther is four games from 100 for his NHL career (5-16-21, 96 GP).
• D Erik Gudbranson is four games from 700 for his NHL career (28-76-104, 696 GP).
• LW Patrik Laine is nine goals from 200 for his NHL career (191-170-261, 448 GP).
• RW Mathieu Olivier is one game from 100 for his NHL career (7-12-19, 99 GP).

OhioHEALTH INJURY REPORT

• D Jake Bean (shoulder) is on Injured Reserve (Nov. 17); out 4-to-6 months (41 games)
• RW Yegor Chinakhov (ankle) is on Injured Reserve (Dec. 20); 4 weeks (25 games)
• C/RW Justin Danforth (torn labrum) is on Injured Reserve (Oct. 25); 6 months (50 games)
• LW Johnny Gaudreau (lower body) is day-to-day (1 game)
• RW Carson Meyer (oblique strain) is on Injured Reserve (Jan. 10); 6-to-8 weeks (16 games)
• LW Gustav Nyquist (shoulder) is on Injured Reserve (Jan. 25); expected to miss rest of reg. season (8 games)
• LW Jakub Voracek (upper body) is on Injured Reserve (Nov. 4); out indefinitely (45 games)
• D Zach Werenski (shoulder separation/torn labrum) is on Injured Reserve (Nov. 10); expected to miss rest or reg. season (43 games)

TOTAL MAN GAMES LOST: 383

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