{"id":377222,"date":"2025-12-30T04:55:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T04:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/377222\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T04:55:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T04:55:15","slug":"blue-jackets-vs-senators-start-time-delayed-due-to-columbus-travel-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/377222\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jackets vs. Senators start time delayed due to Columbus\u2019 travel issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"General exterior view of the Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-1058150394-1-1024x683.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"responsive\" class=\"image-next-root\" style=\"border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;position:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0;border:none;margin:auto;display:block;width:0;height:0;min-width:100%;max-width:100%;min-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-fit:cover\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Article_ImageCaptionCredit__mkXi_ article-image-caption-credit Typography_body1__xfKuc inherit Typography_base__jzSqr\">The Blue Jackets were supposed to fly to Ottawa on Sunday night after defeating the New York Islanders 4-2 at home in Columbus. Jana Chytilova \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2014 Monday night\u2019s game between the Ottawa Senators and Columbus Blue Jackets has been delayed because of travel issues.<\/p>\n<p>Puck drop will now be at 7:30 p.m. ET instead of 7 p.m. at the Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jackets were supposed to fly to Ottawa on Sunday night after defeating the New York Islanders 4-2 at home in Columbus. But mechanical issues\u00a0grounded the plane.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CBJ?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#CBJ<\/a> are wheels up from Columbus, bound for Ottawa. There may be hockey tonight after all, people <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CBJ?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#CBJ<\/a> vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GoSensGo?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#GoSensGo<\/a> set for 7:30 p.m. from Canadian Tire Centre<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Aaron Portzline (@Aportzline) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Aportzline\/status\/2005725203628974465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 29, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Jackets\u2019 flight instead departed Monday afternoon and was en route to Ottawa.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the delay was announced, the Jackets traded forward Yegor Chinakov to the Pittsburgh Penguins.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, the Penguins and Montreal Canadiens experienced a delay of their own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6883405\/2025\/12\/11\/penguins-canadiens-game-delay-traffic-accident-pittsburgh\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">following a traffic accident<\/a> in Pittsburgh that kept players from arriving at the arena on time.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Blue Jackets were supposed to fly to Ottawa on Sunday night after defeating the New York Islanders&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[392,385,1319,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-377222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-columbus-blue-jackets","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-ottawa-senators","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}