New York Islanders at Columbus Blue Jackets: game preview
NY IslandersIslanders2026-27: 1-2-0 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 43-34-5 · 91 pts · 19that
ColumbusBlue Jackets2026-27: 1-1-0 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 40-30-12 · 92 pts · 17thOne points apart last season
NY Islanders finished last season 19th in the league on 91 points. Columbus finished 17th on 92, and the 2025-26 season series went NYI 3-1-0.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 63
Across 62 completed games, NY Islanders lead the head-to-head 33-20-9.
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 2 Nov 2025, NY Islanders were 20th in the league and Columbus 14th. By 22 Mar 2026 it was 11th and 10th.
NY Islanders out-attempted Columbus 246 to 240
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
New York Islanders
Columbus Blue Jackets
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: 3 games for NY Islanders, 2 for Columbus. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for NY Islanders, 10 for Columbus.
2025-26: 82 games for NY Islanders, 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
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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.
Expected starter after their game on 26 Feb: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
Expected starter after their game on 26 Feb: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
NY Islanders crease
NYI · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 24 Feb
No appearances against Columbus in the last meetings.
Columbus crease
CBJ · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 24 Feb
No appearances against NY Islanders in the last meetings.
Scoring rates point to about 6.0 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
NY Islanders3.002.332.842.94
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
NY Islanders · injuries
Columbus · injuries
No players listed.
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Agreed to terms with LD Logan Stanley on a 1-Year contract worth $1.5M. Placed G Vitek Vanecek on waivers with the intention of sending to Hamilton (AHL)
Waived Fs Tanner Fritz, Matt Luff and Nathan Chaffee. Waived Fs Dylan Foudy and Hudson Kuefler for the purpose of sending to Hamilton (AHL).
Signed F Alex Jefferies to a one-year contract.
Placed LW Mikael Pyyhtia on waivers.
Placed D Ivan Provorov on injured reserve.
Assigned G Pheonix Copley to Cleveland (AHL).
NY Islanders · 2026 draft
See all: NY Islanders · 2026 draft →Columbus · 2026 draft
See all: Columbus · 2026 draft →Saturday 27 February · the full slate
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