Carolina Hurricanes at Columbus Blue Jackets: game preview
CarolinaHurricanes2026-27: 2-1-1 · 5 pts · 2025-26: 53-22-7 · 113 pts · 2ndat
ColumbusBlue Jackets2026-27: 1-1-0 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 40-30-12 · 92 pts · 17thTwenty-one points apart last season
Carolina finished last season 2nd in the league on 113 points. Columbus finished 17th on 92, and the 2025-26 season series went CAR 3-1-0.
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Meeting number 70
Across 69 completed games, Carolina lead the head-to-head 38-21-10.
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 Dec 2025, Carolina were 5th in the league and Columbus 20th. By 2 Apr 2026 it was 2nd and 13th.
Carolina out-attempted Columbus 267 to 210
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Carolina Hurricanes
Columbus Blue Jackets
Carolina 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: 4 games for Carolina, 2 for Columbus. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Carolina, 10 for Columbus.
2025-26: 86 games for Carolina, 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.
All bars share one scale · 0–100%SeasonLast meetings
Carolina
Small sampleColumbus
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.
Carolina crease
CAR · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 26 Feb
No appearances against Columbus in the last meetings.
Columbus crease
CBJ · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 26 Feb
No appearances against Carolina in the last meetings.
Scoring rates point to about 6.3 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
Carolina2.753.003.612.93
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.
2 on the injury lists
Carolina · injuries
Columbus · injuries
No players listed.
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Placed G Cayden Primeau on waivers.
Placed C Seth Jarvis on the injured non-roster list. Placed LD Juuso Valimaki on waivers.
Placed C Seth Jarvis on the injured non-roster list. Placed D Juuso Valimaki on waivers.
Placed LW Mikael Pyyhtia on waivers.
Placed D Ivan Provorov on injured reserve.
Assigned G Pheonix Copley to Cleveland (AHL).
Carolina · 2026 draft
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