{"id":89526,"date":"2026-01-17T16:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T16:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/89526\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T16:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T16:58:09","slug":"nhl-game-preview-columbus-blue-jackets-at-pittsburgh-penguins-with-line-combinations-1-17-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/89526\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Game Preview: Columbus Blue Jackets at Pittsburgh Penguins with Line Combinations 1\/17\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NHL<\/p>\n

(Photo by: Gene J. Puskar-AP)<\/p>\n

Columbus Blue Jackets (21-19-7, 49 pts) at Pittsburgh Penguins (22-14-10, 54 pts)<\/p>\n

Venue: PPG Paints Arena
Date: Saturday, January 17
Time: 7:00 pm EST
How To Watch:\u00a0ESPN+, FDSNOH
Radio:\u00a0The Fan, 97.1 The Fan, 93.3 The Bus,105.9 The X<\/p>\n

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Columbus Blue Jackets News & Notes:<\/p>\n

The Blue Jackets have won three straight games after beating the Vancouver Canucks on Thursday, 4-1. They\u2019re 3-2-0 in their last five games, averaging three goals per game while allowing three goals per game. Columbus won the first meeting, but has lost the last two against the Penguins this season; all three games have been decided in extra time.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh Penguins & Notes:<\/p>\n

The Penguins are 2-2-1 over their last five games after their win over the Flyers Thursday night, 6-3. During this stretch, they\u2019re averaging 2.4 goals per game while allowing 1.8 goals per game. Pittsburgh lost in a shootout to the Blue Jackets in their first meeting, but has beaten Columbus in overtime in each of the last two games this season. <\/p>\n

Columbus Blue Jackets Projected Lines:<\/p>\n

Sillinger-Fantilli-Marchenko
Jenner-Monahan-Johnson
Voronkov-Coyle-Olivier
Heinen-Gaunce-Pyyhtia<\/p>\n

Werenski-Fabbro
Provorov-Severson
Christiansen-Gudbranson<\/p>\n

Greaves
Merzlikins<\/p>\n

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Pittsburgh Penguins Projected Lines<\/p>\n

Rakell-Crosby-Rust
Chinakhov-Novak-Malkin
Mantha-Kindel-Brazeau
Dewar-Lizotte-Acciari<\/p>\n

Kulak-Letang
Shea-Clifton
Wotherspoon-St. Ivany<\/p>\n

SKinner
Silovs<\/p>\n

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Players To Watch:<\/p>\n

Columbus Blue Jackets<\/p>\n

Zack Werenski<\/a> had a goal and an assist against the Penguins in their overtime loss back on January 4th. Werenski has two goals and two assists for four total points this season in three games against the Penguins. In his last five games, he has two goals and four assists and is a plus-one during those five games.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh Penguins<\/p>\n

Egor Chinakhov<\/a> had an assist, two shots, and was a plus one in the 5-4 overtime win over the Blue Jackets back on January 4th. He has three goals and four assists for a total of seven points in three games against the Blue Jackets this year. He has two goals in his last five games.<\/p>\n

Injury Report:<\/p>\n

Columbus Blue Jackets<\/p>\n

F Isac Lundestrom<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 DTD
D Denton Mateychuk<\/a> \u2013 DTD
D- Brendan Smith<\/a> \u2013 IR
F-Miles Wood<\/a> \u2013 IR
F Mason Marchment<\/a> \u2013 IR<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh Penguins<\/p>\n

C\u00a0Filip Hallander<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR
G\u00a0Joel Blomqvist<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR
D\u00a0Caleb Jones<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR
D\u00a0Erik Karlsson<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 DTD<\/p>\n

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JC Giff<\/a><\/p>\n

Father of 3, Bruins, Red Sox, Cubs, Liverpool, Syracuse football and Basketball Fan. Love Fantasy Football, Baseball and Hockey. If I am not at work, I either at an ice rink, Ball field or spending quality time with my family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Photo by: Gene J. Puskar-AP) Columbus Blue Jackets (21-19-7, 49 pts) at Pittsburgh Penguins (22-14-10, 54 pts) Venue:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[44350,11246,11386,44351,27188,6059,5158,44352,22107,25218,44353,4843,44334,73,75,74,1067,38085,44354],"class_list":{"0":"post-89526","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-brendan-smith","9":"tag-caleb-jones","10":"tag-columbus-blue-jackets","11":"tag-denton-mateychuk","12":"tag-erik-karlsson","13":"tag-filip-hallander","14":"tag-hockey","15":"tag-isac-lundestrom","16":"tag-joel-blomqvist","17":"tag-mason-marchment","18":"tag-miles-wood","19":"tag-nhl","20":"tag-nhl-game-preview","21":"tag-pittsburgh","22":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","23":"tag-pittsburgh-news","24":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","25":"tag-yegor-chinakhov","26":"tag-zack-werenski"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}