NHL Game Preview: New York Rangers at Columbus Blue Jackets with Line Combinations 3/15/2025

New York Rangers at Columbus Blue Jackets

Venue: Nationwide Arena
Date: Saturday, March 15
Time: 7:00 pm EST
TV: ESPN + / MSG / FDSNOH
Radio: 
New York Rangers – WEPN-FM 98.7 ESPN New York
Columbus Blue Jackets – WBNS The Fan 97.1 FM

DraftKings Sportsbook Betting Lines:
New York Rangers -1.5 ML +180
Columbus Blue Jackets +1.5 ML -218
O/U 6.5

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New York Rangers News & Notes: 

The Rangers are 1-4 in their last five games, which is not ideal when pushing to get into the playoffs. General Manager Chris Drury wasn’t shy at the deadline and made plenty of moves, including bringing in Carson Soucy. Following the Blue Jackets game, the Rangers will face Edmonton, Calgary, Toronto, and Vancouver on a four-game homestand that could determine their playoff fates.

Columbus Blue Jackets News & Notes: 

Columbus has been dealing with a plethora of injury issues all season long, and it’s not slowing down. With all those injuries, they’ve managed to stay above water and in the playoff hunt. They’re currently in the second Wild Card position, tied with the Rangers, but have one less game played.

New York Rangers Projected Lines:

Panarin-Trocheck-Cuylle
Lafreniere-J.T. Miller-Zibanejad
Kreider-Carrick-Berard
Othmann-Brodzinski-Rempe

K Miller-Borgen
Vaakanainen-Schneider
Soucy-Jones

Shesterkin
Quick

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Columbus Blue Jackets Projected Lines: 

Voronkov-Fantilli-Marchenko
Johnson-Jenner-Chinakhov
Aston-Reese-Danforth-Olivier
van Riemsdyk-Kuraly-Kunin

Werenski-Fabbro
Mateychuk-Provorov
Johnson-Severson

Tarasov
Greaves

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Players To Watch:

New York Rangers

Chris Kreider was a name mentioned leading into the trade deadline but wasn’t moved. Since then, he’s only scored one goal. He has four goals and one assist in his last ten games.

Columbus Blue Jackets 

Zach Werenski leads the team in points and is hot in the Norris conversation, along with, you guessed it, Cale Makar. Werenski has 20 goals and 49 assists, along with a +11 and 112 blocked shots. He is the horse of the Blue Jackets blueline.

Injury Report:

New York Rangers

LW Adam Edstrom – OUT
D Adam Fox – IR
RW Arthur Kaliyev – OUT

Columbus Blue Jackets

C Cole Sillinger – IR
C Sean Monahan – IR
D Eric Gudbranson – IR
RW Kevin Labanc – IR
D Jake Christiansen – OUT
G Elvis Merzlikins – Unavailable

Next game:

New York Rangers – March 16 vs. Edmonton Oilers
Columbus Blue Jackets – March 17 vs. New Jersey Devils

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