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Columbus Blue Jackets (19 pts) vs. New York Rangers (20 pts) Game Preview

  The Columbus Blue Jackets are at home tonight to face the New York Rangers.  

The Blue Jackets welcome the best road team in the NHL into NWA tonight, so this won't be an easy game at all. 

The Rangers are 8-1-1 on the road this season, with their only regulation loss coming at the hands of the lowly Calgary Flames back on October 26th. Before that, they suffered an overtime loss to Toronto on October 16th. That makes five wins straight on the road for the Rangers. 

The Blue Jackets are coming off a 5-4 win over the Edmonton Oilers on Thursday night. The win marked their second straight after losing 4 in a row on a western Canada trip. The schedule doesn't get any easier, so they need to play the way they know how and score some goals to stay in the insane Metro Division race. 

Blue Jackets Stats

  • Power Play - 14.6% - 30th in NHL
  • Penalty Kill - 73.9% - 26th in NHL
  • Goals For - 53 - 18th in NHL
  • Goals Against - 55 - 19th in NHL

Rangers Stats

  • Power Play - 15.2% - 28th in NHL
  • Penalty Kill - 81.6% - 11th in NHL
  • Goals For - 48 - 25th in NHL
  • Goals Against - 46 - 6th in NHL

Series History vs. Rangers

  • Columbus is 24-24-1-6 all-time, and 13-16-0-1 at home vs. New York.
  • The Jackets are 3-3-2 in the last 8 vs. the Rangers.
  • The CBJ went 1-2-2 vs. the NYR last season.

Who To Watch For TheRangers

  • Will Cuylle leads the Rangers with 6 goals.
  • Adam Fox leads the team with 12 assists.
  • Aetemi Panarin leads the Rangers with 16 points.
  • Goalie Igor Shesterkin is 6-6-2 with a .909 SV%. He won his last start on Nov. 12 against Tampa.
  • Columbus Legend Jonathan Quick is 3-1-0 with a .950 SV%. He won his last start on Nov 7 against Detroit.

CBJ Player Notes vs. Rangers

  • Zach Werenski has 18 points in 26 games against the Rangers.
  • Sean Monahan has 12 points in 17 games.
  • Charlie Coyle has 20 points in 32 career games vs. NYR.

Injuries - Gudbranson on IR

  • Erik Gudbranson - Upper Body - Missed 9 games - IR
  • Boone Jenner - Upper Body - Missed 1 Game

TOTAL MAN GAMES LOST: 22

How to Watch & Listen: Tonight's game will be on FanDuel Sports Network. Steve Mears will be on the play-by-play. The radio broadcast will be on 93.3 The Bus, with Bob McElligott behind the mic doing the play-by-play.  

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Jackson Rowe gives hilarious locker room speech after Steph Curry's big game

Jackson Rowe gives hilarious locker room speech after Steph Curry's big game originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area

Steve Kerr doesn’t always want to do all the talking.

Especially after the coach already had given the Warriors a passionate pregame speech before Friday’s game against the San Antonio Spurs, Kerr wanted to give someone else the opportunity to address the team in the locker room after a nail-biting 109-108 win.

So, Kerr turned to Draymond Green to pick a rookie or young player to put on the spot and evaluate another Steph Curry masterclass. Green originally chose rookie guard Will Richard before changing his mind and selecting second-year forward Jackson Rowe.

Rowe, like the rest of us, tried to find the right words to explain what the world had just witnessed from Curry. So he kept it simple.

“God just blessed Steph, man,” Rowe said as the locker room burst into laughter. “I don’t know. There ain’t no answer for him. There ain’t no answer.”

Curry, also hysterical sitting at his locker, loved it.

I mean, what more can you say?

Curry finished with 49 points on 16-of-26 shooting from the field and 9 of 17 from 3-point range, with four rebounds, two assists and two steals in 36 minutes.

He compiled a whopping 95 points in two consecutive games against the Spurs, both leading to wins for Golden State.

Curry might be blessed, as Rowe stated, but so is the basketball world that gets to watch him.

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Canadiens’ St-Louis Says He Did His Job Following Optional Skate On Friday

Once upon a time in the NHL, when an opponent destroyed you, there was a risk that practice the next day would be tough, that there would be some bag skating, that the coach may very well raise his voice, but this is not today’s NHL. After his Montreal Canadiens were beaten 7-0 by the Dallas Stars, coach Martin St-Louis decided that the on-ice practice would be optional.

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That decision surprised some, and when the bench boss was asked what his players did in Brossard on Friday morning, he replied that there was a mandatory video session. Ask to describe what that was like. He said there was a TV showing some clips, and they talked about a few things. Further pressed by a journalist to know what the tone of the meeting was like, the pilot said:

Listen, I’m not going to tell you what my tone was like, alright? I did my job today.
- St-Louis didn't like being questioned about his handling of Friday's practice

While he didn’t say it, St-Louis didn’t appreciate the fact that the way he handled the group following such a beating was put into question. While fans and media alike wondered whether it was the best time for an optional skate, they are not in the coaches’ shoes or have the beat of the room that the coach does.

The coach stated that the team had been on the ice for four consecutive days and that two games were coming up quick against the Boston Bruins on Saturday and the Columbus Blue Jackets on Monday and that the players knew what they had to do whether it was to skate like Oliver Kapananenm, Lane Hutson, Ivan Demidov and Zachary Bolduc decided to do, jump on the ice earlier with skills coach Adam Nicholas like Brendan Gallagher and Jake Evans chose to do or by just sticking to off-ice training like all the others.

As for the other burning question, he confirmed that Samuel Montembeault would be in the net against the Bruins, meaning he’s sticking with the “if you lose, you give up the net” formula.

While the coach didn’t have a full update on Alex Newhook, he did acknowledge that the forward would miss some time and that he would need to make some lineup changes. A couple of hours later, the verdict was handed down. Newhook suffered a broken ankle, had surgery and will be out for four months. Because bad news never comes alone, the Canadiens also announced that Kaiden Guhle had surgery on a partially torn adductor muscle and would miss from eight to 10 weeks—awful news for the Canadiens that comes at the worst possible time.

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Victor Wembanyama explains why he got in Draymond Green's face after poster dunk

Victor Wembanyama explains why he got in Draymond Green's face after poster dunk originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area

Victor Wembanyama‘s poster dunk over Draymond Green, and the theatrics that ensued, came from bottled-up emotions.

After the Warriors’ thrilling 109-108 victory over the San Antonio Spurs on Friday night, the young Spurs phenom explained to reporters why he got in Green’s face after the monstrous slam.

“It’s not trying to prove anything to anybody,” Wembanyama said (h/t Mike Finger). “It’s just, at some point, somebody speaks to you a certain way, you have to respond a certain way.”

After the dunk, which didn’t actually count because officials ruled Green fouled Wembanyama before the slam, the 7-foot-4 Wembanyama hunched over Green as the two began to exchange words.

The Spurs bench — and the entire Frost Bank Center crowd — got out of their seats in awe of what they just witnessed. Then, as Wembanyama and Green continued to go at it, Spurs fourth-year forward Jeremy Sochan got in between the two and shoved Green away from his teammate.

Eventually, players on both sides got involved as they tried to de-escalate the situation.

Wembanyama finished with 26 points, 12 rebounds, four assists, one steal and three blocks in 38 minutes.

Ultimately, though, Green, in 33 minutes, finished with six points, eight rebounds, eight assists, three blocks, the win and the last laugh in San Antonio.

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