Kirill Marchenko

Kirill Marchenko battling for the puck

Columbus Blue Jackets Player Grades: Kirill Marchenko

For part three of this series, Columbus Blue Jacket’s forward Kirill Marchenko gets his grade on his 2023-24 season performance. In the first two parts, I graded Johnny Gaudreau and Zach Werenski. You can find the grading criteria in the first link. Keep in mind these grades focus mainly on how well a player did […]

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Héctor Urcia for Inside The Rink

PHOTOS: New York Islanders vs. Columbus Blue Jackets – 04/04/2024

COLUMBUS, Ohio- Thursday night, the visiting New York Islanders beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 4-2 at Nationwide Arena in downtown Columbus. Pierre Engvall, Bo Horvat, Noah Dobson, and Kyle Palmieri  scored for New York. Columbus scored all goals in the first period via Dmitri Voronkov and Kirill Marchenko. Blue Jackets goaltender,  Daniil Tarasov, left the […]

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Johnny Gaudreau races down the ice towards the Buffalo Sabres goal.

Blue Jackets Showing Frustration Near End of Season, Look To Finish Strong

The Columbus Blue Jackets are in the tail end of their season and it seems nothing is going their way. They lost their sixth consecutive game and are sitting in last place in the Metropolitan Division. The Jackets were also mathematically eliminated from playoff contention earlier this week. In a recent loss, some players showed […]

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Johnny Gaudreau and Sidney Crosby

Columbus Loses At Pittsburgh For 14th Time In A Row

The Columbus Blue Jackets knew there was a tough night in store for Tuesday’s game against the Pittsburgh Penguins. Besides missing Adam Fantilli, Kent Johnson, and Patrik Laine, the Blue Jackets were also missing goaltender Elvis Merzlikins (upper-body injury) and forward Kirill Marchenko (healthy scratch). Jacket’s head coach Pascal Vincent said the reason for Marchenko’s […]

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Daniil Tarasov, Ivan Provorov, and Damon Severson fight for the puck

Alex Nylander Gets First Points And First Goal As A Columbus Blue Jacket

Thursday night, the Columbus Blue Jackets faced the Carolina Hurricanes at Nationwide Arena. They faced former teammate Spencer Martin, who was in the net for the Hurricanes. Martin had been picked up off of waivers by Carolina this past January. There were a few changes in the Blue Jackets lineup from the previous night’s game […]

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NHL Recap: Diary of a Last Place Fan CBJ @ SJS

Another way the Sharks find to rip your hearts out on the hopeless season The San Jose Sharks once again found a way to rip out the hearts of fans on Saturday night. In front of an almost full house in San Jose, the Sharks miraculously come from two goals down in the second to […]

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Boone Jenner celebrates scoring a goal

NHL Trade Rumors: Columbus Blue Jackets’ Boone Jenner Staying Put

The Columbus Blue Jackets have been the talk of many trade rumors lately. With the upcoming trade deadline on March 8th, those talks have been heating up, and everyone wants to know if their favorite player could get moved or if they’re staying. As discussed in a previous article, the Blue Jackets are in a […]

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Ottawa Senators celebrate a win

NHL Game Recap: Columbus Blue Jackets at Ottawa Senators|02/13/2024

Columbus and Ottawa last met on December 1, 2023. The Blue Jackets won that match-up 4-2. Currently, both teams sit at the bottom of their respective divisions. Before this game, Ottawa’s record was 21-25-2 with 44 points, and the Blue Jackets sat just below them in the Eastern Division with a record of 16-25-10 with […]

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Héctor Urcia for Inside The Rink

PHOTOS: Vancouver Canucks vs. Columbus Blue Jackets – 01/15/2024

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Monday night, the Columbus Blue Jackets came from behind and beat the Canucks 4-3 in a shootout. Kirill Marchenko scored the only goal in the shootout, and Elvis Merzlikins made the game-winning save for Columbus. Check out this photo gallery from Inside The Rink’s Héctor Urcia, for highlights from the game.

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NHL Game Recap: Seattle Kraken at Columbus Blue Jackets 01/13/2024

1st Period The Blue Jackets tried to set the tone early in the first by coming out of the gate fast and aggressively. A goal from Ivan Provorov got things started less than 2 minutes into the game. This wasn’t answered until almost 9 minutes into the period when Seattle’s Jordan Eberle was able to […]

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