Columbus Blue Jackets at Florida Panthers: game preview
ColumbusBlue Jackets2026-27: 1-1-0 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 40-30-12 · 92 pts · 17that
FloridaPanthers2026-27: 2-0-2 · 6 pts · 2025-26: 40-38-4 · 84 pts · 25thEight points apart last season
Columbus finished last season 17th in the league on 92 points. Florida finished 25th on 84.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 58
Across 57 completed games, Florida lead the head-to-head 30-17-10.
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 6 Dec 2025, Columbus were 18th in the league and Florida 27th. By 12 Mar 2026 it was 12th and 20th.
Florida out-attempted Columbus 339 to 269
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Columbus Blue Jackets
Florida Panthers
Columbus and Florida 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: 2 games for Columbus, 4 for Florida. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Columbus, 10 for Florida.
2025-26: 82 games for Columbus, 82 for Florida.
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 sampleFlorida
Small sampleSam Reinhart has 8 points in the last 5 meetings
Each club's top three forwards and defencemen by points this season, with 2025-26 one tap away, then who has produced in the last meetings.
Sam Reinhart vs Columbus · game by game
See all: Sam Reinhart vs Columbus · game by game →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 27 Mar
Florida crease
FLA · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 27 Mar
No appearances against Columbus in the last meetings.
Scoring rates point to about 6.1 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
Florida2.002.003.063.37Goals 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.
Florida · 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 C Aleksander Barkov on long-term injured reserve. Called up D Alexander Petrovic from Charlotte (AHL).
Placed C Aleksander Barkov on long-term injured reserve.
Placed RW/C Cole Schwindt, RD Alexander Petrovic, LD Donovan Sebrango, LW Kai Schwindt, LW Cole Reinhardt, RW Sam Lafferty and C/LW John Beecher on waivers. Agreed to terms with RW Nathan Bastian on a 1-year, two-way contract.
Columbus · 2026 draft
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