NHL Game Preview: Pittsburgh Penguins at Columbus Blue Jackets with Line Combinations 11/15/2024

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Pittsburgh Penguins (6-9-3, 15 Pts) at Columbus Blue Jackets (5-8-2, 12 Pts)
Venue: Nationwide Arena
Date: Tonight – Friday, November 15
Time: 7:00 pm PT

TV: NHL Network, FanDuel Sports Network Ohio, SportsNet Pittsburgh
Radio:
Pittsburgh – 105.9 The X
Columbus – CBJ Radio App

DraftKings Sportsbook Betting Lines:
Pittsburgh -1.5 ML -125
Columbus +1.5 ML +105
O/U 6.5

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Pittsburgh Penguins News & Notes:

The Penguins were embarrassed by the Dallas Stars at home 7-1 on Tuesday night and allowed six goals in the first period. Pittsburgh is 20th in the league in power play efficiency and 10th in the NHL in penalty killing.

Columbus Blue Jackets News & Notes:

The Blue Jackets have lost six in a row. Columbus has the 19th-ranked power play and the 13th-ranked penalty kill.

Pittsburgh Penguins Projected Lines

Beauvillier-Crosby-Rakell

Bunting-Malkin-Rust

O’Connor-Lizotte-Poulin

Puljujarvi-Acciari-Puustinen

Grzelcyk-Letang

Pettersson-Karlsson

Graves-Shea

Nedeljkovic

Jarry

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Columbus Blue Jackets Projected Lines

Voronkov-Monahan-Marchenko

Sillinger-Fantilli-Chinakhov

Pyyhtia-Danforth-Olivier

Ashton-Reese-Kuraly-Labanc

Werenski-Fabbri

Provorov-Severson

J. Johnson-Christiansen

Merzlikins

Tarasov

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Players To Watch:

Pittsburgh Penguins

Sidney Crosby has six goals and 11 assists for the Penguins. Evgeni Malkin leads the team with 13 assists.

Columbus Blue Jackets

Kirill Marchenko has six goals and nine assists for the Blue Jackets. Sean Monahan has contributed six goals and five assists.

Injury Report:

Pittsburgh Penguins

LW Matthew Nieto – IR – Returned to practice Monday
C Cody Glass – IR – Out indefinitely
C Kevin Hayes – Week to week

Columbus Blue Jackets

D Erik Gudbranson – IR – Out indefinitely
C Boone Jenner – LTIR – Six months
C Gavin Brindley – IR – Four to six weeks
C Kent Johnson – IR – Out indefinitely

Next Game

Pittsburgh Penguins – November 16 vs San Jose
Columbus Blue Jackets – November 16 at Montreal

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