Tampa Bay Lightning at Columbus Blue Jackets: game preview
Tampa BayLightning2026-27: 2-1-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 50-26-6 · 106 pts · 5that
ColumbusBlue Jackets2026-27: 1-1-0 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 40-30-12 · 92 pts · 17thFourteen points apart last season
Tampa Bay finished last season 5th in the league on 106 points. Columbus finished 17th on 92.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 66
Across 65 completed games, Tampa Bay lead the head-to-head 41-23-1.
Last 5 meetings
See all: Last 5 meetings →The table on each 2025-26 meeting night
League rank after that night's games; a longer bar is a higher place. On 18 Oct 2025, Tampa Bay were 29th in the league and Columbus 25th. By 10 Mar 2026 it was 6th and 12th.
Tampa Bay out-attempted Columbus 174 to 166
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Tampa Bay Lightning
Columbus Blue Jackets
Tampa Bay and Columbus are level on chances, last 10 games
Shot quality both ways: expected goals weigh every unblocked attempt by its chance of scoring. Finishing above zero means more goals than the chances.
This season: 3 games for Tampa Bay, 2 for Columbus. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Tampa Bay, 10 for Columbus.
2025-26: 82 games for Tampa Bay, 82 for Columbus.
Power play and penalty kill, season and series
This season's rates first, then 2025-26 and the last meetings between the two. Power-play chances are counted from the penalty log with coincidental minors cancelled; faceoffs are each club's wins over draws taken.
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Small sampleSkaters to watch
Each club's top three forwards and defencemen by points this season, with 2025-26 one tap away.
Who has stopped this matchup
Save percentage in the last meetings by goalie. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Tampa Bay crease
TBL · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 9 Nov
No appearances against Columbus in the last meetings.
Columbus crease
CBJ · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 9 Nov
No appearances against Tampa Bay in the last meetings.
Scoring rates point to about 6.2 goals
No total is posted yet: it arrives with the game-day prices. Until then, the scoring rates and the recent meetings set the range.
Goals in the last 5 meetings
Bar length is total goals, coloured by the winner.
Scoring rates
Tampa Bay2.672.333.542.82
Columbus3.503.503.093.09Goals for and against per game. The estimate averages each team’s scoring with the other’s goals allowed, and leans on 2025-26 until a team has played 20 games.
3 on the injury lists
Tampa Bay · injuries
Columbus · injuries
No players listed.
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Placed C Jansen Harkins on waivers.
Placed D Michael Callahan on waivers.
Placed D Michael Callahan, G Mads Sogaard Nielsenon, LD Maxim Groshev, LW Jakob Pelletier and C Nicholas Abruzzese on waivers.
Placed LW Mikael Pyyhtia on waivers.
Placed D Ivan Provorov on injured reserve.
Assigned G Pheonix Copley to Cleveland (AHL).
Tampa Bay · 2026 draft
See all: Tampa Bay · 2026 draft →Columbus · 2026 draft
See all: Columbus · 2026 draft →Thursday 12 November · the full slate
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