New York Rangers at Columbus Blue Jackets: game preview
NY RangersRangers2026-27: 4-1-0 · 8 pts · 2025-26: 34-39-9 · 77 pts · 30that
ColumbusBlue Jackets2026-27: 1-1-0 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 40-30-12 · 92 pts · 17thFifteen points apart last season
NY Rangers finished last season 30th in the league on 77 points. Columbus finished 17th on 92, and the 2025-26 season series went CBJ 2-0-1.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 61
Across 60 completed games, NY Rangers lead the head-to-head 32-23-5.
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 15 Nov 2025, NY Rangers were 14th in the league and Columbus 22nd. By 19 Mar 2026 it was 30th and 11th.
NY Rangers out-attempted Columbus 190 to 168
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
New York Rangers
Columbus Blue Jackets
NY Rangers 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: 5 games for NY Rangers, 2 for Columbus. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for NY Rangers, 10 for Columbus.
2025-26: 82 games for NY Rangers, 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 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 Jan: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
Expected starter after their game on 3 Jan: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
NY Rangers crease
NYR · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 2 Jan
No appearances against Columbus in the last meetings.
Columbus crease
CBJ · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 2 Jan
No appearances against NY Rangers 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 Rangers3.201.602.903.05
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.
4 on the injury lists
NY Rangers · injuries
Columbus · injuries
No players listed.
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Recalled C Gabriel Beaudoin from Hartford (AHL). Placed C Joe Veleno on injured reserve.
Placed D Matthew Robertson on waivers.
Placed G Joonas Korpisalo on injured reserve. Recalled G Dylan Garand from Hartford (AHL).
Placed LW Mikael Pyyhtia on waivers.
Placed D Ivan Provorov on injured reserve.
Assigned G Pheonix Copley to Cleveland (AHL).
NY Rangers · 2026 draft
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