By Joe “Big Head” Coppersmith
Zach talks to the media after a recent win over Boston, 6-2
Zach Werenski CBJ defenseman Postgame Dressing Room Interview Jackets 6 Bruins 2 12 27 2024
COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS
2024-25 Record: 15-16-6, 36 pts. (5th, Metropolitan Division)
2023-24 Record: 27-43-12, 66 pts. (8th, Metropolitan Division)
Goals: 3.30 Goals-For/3.59 Goals-Against… Shots: 30.1 Shots-For/29.0 Shots-Against
Power Play: 21.0 percent (17th-T, NHL)… Penalty Kill: 75.0 percent (26th, NHL)
Penalty Minutes: 8:50 PIM/GP (20th-T, NHL)… Overtime Record (Shootout): 2-6-0 (1-0)
- D Zach Werenski was named the NHL’s Third Star of the week on Monday after leading the NHL in assists (tied), points (tied) and shots on goal with 0-7-7 and 17 shots on goal in three contests. He became the second player (Seth Jones, 1-6-7 from Mar. 31-Apr. 3, 2018) with three or more assists in back-to-back games from Dec. 23-27, including tying his own franchise mark for assists in a game by a defenseman with four on Friday vs. Boston. The 27-year-old Grosse Pointe, Michigan native leads the NHL in TOI/GP and ranks fifth in shots on goal as well as leads league blueliners in goals (tied) and shots on goal, while ranking third in points and fourth in assists with 11-28-39 and 134 shots on 26:18 of ice time in 37 contests this season. He has registered 3-12-15 in 15 December games and has already set the club record for most assists by a blueliner in a single month and sits one point shy of tying the record he set last month for most points by a defenseman (5-11-16 in 13 GP).
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