{"id":476561,"date":"2025-12-28T06:45:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T06:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/476561\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T06:45:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T06:45:16","slug":"game-preview-islanders-at-blue-jackets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/476561\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Preview: Islanders at Blue Jackets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SEASON SERIES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Isles are up 1-0-0 on the season series after a 3-2 win on Nov. 2. Matthew Schaefer logged his first multi-goal game and Simon Holmstrom scored in the win.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BLUE JACKETS NOTES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Columbus is coming off a 3-1 win over the LA Kings on Monday. The Blue Jackets&#8217; three goals were all on the power play, as Mason Marchment (2G) and Kirill Marchenko found the back of the net one the man advantage in a game where their power play went 3-for-7. Jet Greaves made 23 saves.<\/p>\n<p>Marchment is off to a hot start with his new team. He scored three goals in his first two games as a Blue Jacket after he was traded from Seattle. Before the trade, the 30-year-old had 13 points (4G, 9A) in 29 games for the Kraken. Columbus acquired the forward in exchange for a second-round pick in the 2027 NHL Draft and a fourth-round pick in the 2026 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Columbus is eighth in the Metropolitan Division with 36 points and are 3-6-1 in their last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Boone Jenner has five points (2G, 3A) in five games since returning from an upper-body injury sidelined him for 14 games.<\/p>\n<p>Zach Werenski leads the Blue Jackets in scoring with 40 points (14G, 26A) in his 10th season in Columbus. He\u2019s riding a five-game point streak with 10 points (5G, 5A) over that span.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jackets power play has been hot as of late, going 10-for-34 in the month of December (29.4%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEASON SERIES The Isles are up 1-0-0 on the season series after a 3-2 win on Nov. 2.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":476562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-476561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-newyork","12":"tag-newyorkcity","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115795848389294769","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}