Pittsburgh Penguins at Columbus Blue Jackets: game preview
PittsburghPenguins2026-27: 2-1-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 41-25-16 · 98 pts · 10that
ColumbusBlue Jackets2026-27: 1-1-0 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 40-30-12 · 92 pts · 17thSix points apart last season
Pittsburgh finished last season 10th in the league on 98 points. Columbus finished 17th on 92, and the 2025-26 season series went PIT 2-0-2.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 75
Across 74 completed games, Pittsburgh lead the head-to-head 50-13-11.
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 25 Oct 2025, Pittsburgh were 4th in the league and Columbus 24th. By 17 Jan 2026 it was 14th and 22nd.
Pittsburgh out-attempted Columbus 345 to 341
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Pittsburgh Penguins
Columbus Blue Jackets
Pittsburgh and Columbus 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: 3 games for Pittsburgh, 2 for Columbus. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Pittsburgh, 10 for Columbus.
2025-26: 82 games for Pittsburgh, 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 sampleSidney Crosby 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.
Sidney Crosby vs Columbus · game by game
See all: Sidney Crosby vs Columbus · game by game →Arturs Silovs has started most of these meetings
Arturs Silovs played 3 of the last 5 meetings with Columbus, with a .880 save percentage. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Expected starter after their game on 14 Mar: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
Expected starter after their game on 13 Mar: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
Arturs Silovs
See all: Arturs Silovs →PIT · 2-0-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 13 Mar
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Sergei Murashov .912 (1 GP)
Full game logJet Greaves
See all: Jet Greaves →CBJ · 1-1-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 13 Mar
Scoring rates point to about 6.6 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
Pittsburgh5.002.673.573.27
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.
3 on the injury lists
Pittsburgh · injuries
Columbus · injuries
No players listed.
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Activated C/RW Benjamin Kindel from injured reserve. Placed C/LW David Gustafsson on waivers.
Assigned F Rutger McGroarty to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (AHL).
Reinstated C Blake Lizotte from injured reserve.
Placed LW Mikael Pyyhtia on waivers.
Placed D Ivan Provorov on injured reserve.
Assigned G Pheonix Copley to Cleveland (AHL).
Pittsburgh · 2026 draft
See all: Pittsburgh · 2026 draft →Columbus · 2026 draft
See all: Columbus · 2026 draft →
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