San Jose Sharks at Columbus Blue Jackets: game preview
San JoseSharks2026-27: 2-1-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 39-35-8 · 86 pts · 24that
ColumbusBlue Jackets2026-27: 1-1-0 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 40-30-12 · 92 pts · 17thSix points apart last season
San Jose finished last season 24th in the league on 86 points. Columbus finished 17th on 92.
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, San Jose lead the head-to-head 44-26-5.
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 6 Jan 2026, San Jose were 23rd in the league and Columbus 25th. By 28 Mar 2026 it was 26th and 11th.
San Jose out-attempted Columbus 130 to 110
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
San Jose Sharks
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 San Jose, 2 for Columbus. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for San Jose, 10 for Columbus.
2025-26: 82 games for San Jose, 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.
San Jose crease
SJS · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 10 Mar
No appearances against Columbus in the last meetings.
Columbus crease
CBJ · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 10 Mar
No appearances against San Jose in the last meetings.
Scoring rates point to about 6.5 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
San Jose3.004.003.063.56
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.
6 on the injury lists
San Jose · injuries
Columbus · injuries
No players listed.
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Placed C Patrick Giles on waivers.
Placed G Ilya Samsonov on waivers.
Placed RW Ethan Cardwell, D Libor Hajek and LW Tye Felhaber on waivers.
Placed LW Mikael Pyyhtia on waivers.
Placed D Ivan Provorov on injured reserve.
Assigned G Pheonix Copley to Cleveland (AHL).
San Jose · 2026 draft
See all: San Jose · 2026 draft →Columbus · 2026 draft
See all: Columbus · 2026 draft →Saturday 13 March · the full slate
See all: Saturday 13 March · the full slate →
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