Columbus Blue Jackets at Los Angeles Kings: game preview
ColumbusBlue Jackets2026-27: 1-1-0 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 40-30-12 · 92 pts · 17that
Los AngelesKings2026-27: 0-2-1 · 1 pts · 2025-26: 35-27-20 · 90 pts · 20thTwo points apart last season
Columbus finished last season 17th in the league on 92 points. Los Angeles finished 20th on 90.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 76
Across 75 completed games, Los Angeles lead the head-to-head 43-23-9.
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 22 Dec 2025, Columbus were 24th in the league and Los Angeles 20th. By 9 Mar 2026 it was 12th and 22nd.
Los Angeles out-attempted Columbus 124 to 113
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Columbus Blue Jackets
Los Angeles Kings
Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Columbus, 10 for Los Angeles.
2025-26: 82 games for Columbus, 82 for Los Angeles.
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 sampleLos Angeles
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.
Expected starter after their game on 3 Mar: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
Expected starter after their game on 3 Mar: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
Columbus crease
CBJ · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 2 Mar
No appearances against Los Angeles in the last meetings.
Los Angeles crease
LAK · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 2 Mar
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
Los Angeles3.005.002.743.01Goals 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
Columbus · injuries
No players listed.
Los Angeles · 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 D Otto Salin on the injured non-roster list. Loaned G Erik Portillo to Ontario (AHL).
Waived for the purpose of assignment to Abbotsford (AHL) Fs Martin Chromia, Cole Guttman, Lane Pederson and Francesco Pinelli and D Joe Hicketts. Loaned Fs Aatu Jamsen and Koehn Ziemmer, Ds Angus Booth, Kirill Kirsanov and Jared Woolley to Ontario. Placed F Jan Jenik and D Jakub Dvorak on injured reserve.
Signed F Elton Hermansson to a three-year, entry-level contract.
Columbus · 2026 draft
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