Columbus Blue Jackets at Toronto Maple Leafs: game preview
ColumbusBlue Jackets2026-27: 1-1-0 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 40-30-12 · 92 pts · 17that
TorontoMaple Leafs2026-27: 2-2-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 32-36-14 · 78 pts · 28thFourteen points apart last season
Columbus finished last season 17th in the league on 92 points. Toronto finished 28th on 78.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 52
Across 51 completed games, Columbus lead the head-to-head 27-22-2.
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 29 Oct 2025, Columbus were 14th in the league and Toronto 21st. By 26 Nov 2025 it was 20th and 27th.
Toronto out-attempted Columbus 196 to 190
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Columbus Blue Jackets
Toronto Maple Leafs
Columbus have created the better 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: 2 games for Columbus, 4 for Toronto. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Columbus, 10 for Toronto.
2025-26: 82 games for Columbus, 82 for Toronto.
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.
All bars share one scale · 0–100%SeasonLast meetings
Columbus
Small sampleToronto
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.
Columbus crease
CBJ · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 18 Nov
No appearances against Toronto in the last meetings.
Toronto crease
TOR · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 18 Nov
No appearances against Columbus in the last meetings.
Scoring rates point to about 6.4 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
Columbus3.503.503.093.09
Toronto2.752.753.093.65Goals 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.
5 on the injury lists
Columbus · injuries
No players listed.
Toronto · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Placed LW Mikael Pyyhtia on waivers.
Placed D Ivan Provorov on injured reserve.
Assigned G Pheonix Copley to Cleveland (AHL).
Placed RW Nikita Grebenkin on injured reserve.
Moved C Max Domi from the non-roster list to long-term injured reserve.
Placed D Cade Webber on the injured non-roster list.
Columbus · 2026 draft
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