Columbus Blue Jackets at Nashville Predators: game preview
ColumbusBlue Jackets2026-27: 1-1-0 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 40-30-12 · 92 pts · 17that
NashvillePredators2026-27: 1-1-1 · 3 pts · 2025-26: 38-34-10 · 86 pts · 23rdSix points apart last season
Columbus finished last season 17th in the league on 92 points. Nashville finished 23rd on 86.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 112
Across 111 completed games, Nashville lead the head-to-head 74-28-9.
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 9 Oct 2025, Columbus were 24th in the league and Nashville 13th. By 3 Mar 2026 it was 24th and 26th.
Columbus out-attempted Nashville 141 to 117
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Columbus Blue Jackets
Nashville Predators
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, 3 for Nashville. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Columbus, 10 for Nashville.
2025-26: 82 games for Columbus, 82 for Nashville.
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 sampleNashville
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 2 Dec
No appearances against Nashville in the last meetings.
Nashville crease
NSH · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 2 Dec
No appearances against Columbus 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
Columbus3.503.503.093.09
Nashville2.333.003.013.28Goals 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.
1 on the injury lists
Columbus · injuries
No players listed.
Nashville · 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).
Recalled G Matt Murray from Milwaukee (AHL). Placed G Justus Annunen on injured reserve.
Recalled LW Yegor Pinchuk from Milwaukee (AHL). Assigned G Matt Murray to Milwaukee.
Recalled G Matthew Murray from Milwaukee (AHL).
Columbus · 2026 draft
See all: Columbus · 2026 draft →Nashville · 2026 draft
See all: Nashville · 2026 draft →Saturday 5 December · the full slate
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