The game between the Columbus Blue Jackets and Pittsburgh Penguins will take place at Nationwide Arena on Thursday, April 13 at 7:00 PM ET.
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The Columbus Blue Jackets will welcome the Pittsburgh Penguins to KeyBank Center for an NHL game on Thursday. The Columbus Blue Jackets lost 4-3 in their last game over the Flyers. The game was the final contest in Philadelphia for the Flyers, who wrap up another subpar season on Thursday in Chicago. The once-proud franchise will miss the playoffs for the third straight season and fourth in the last five years. Philadelphia won its only two Stanley Cups in 1974 and ’75, but the club regularly made deep playoff runs.
Columbus forward Eric Robinson did not play. He was injured in Saturday’s 4-0 loss to the Rangers. …. Flyers D Tony DeAngelo, one of Fletcher’s top signees prior to the season, was a healthy scratch for the fourth straight game. Tortorella would not disclose the reason. … Columbus C Boone Jenner (upper body) skated in warmups but didn’t play.
The Pittsburgh Penguins on the other hand lost 2-5 against the Hawks in their last game. Pittsburgh began the night needing wins in its last two games over Chicago and Columbus to extend the longest active playoff streak in major North American professional sports to 17 years. Instead, Petr Mrazek made 38 saves, Robinson scored just the fourth goal of his nomadic career to give Chicago a late lead and Pittsburgh finds itself on the outside of the playoffs looking in with just one game to go.
The Florida Panthers clinched one of the two wild-card spots in the Eastern Conference following losses by Buffalo and Pittsburgh. The New York Islanders can eliminate the Penguins with a win or an overtime loss against Montreal on Wednesday. It’s not what Malkin and Letang had in mind when they signed lengthy extensions last summer to keep one of the most successful trios in modern NHL history together.
Six months of wildly erratic play crystallized over 60 minutes against a team that had won just once since St. Patrick’s Day and whose idea of success over the next few months is winning the league’s draft lottery. “You knew it was going to come down to the last game or two and we got an opportunity tonight to control our own destiny and it didn’t work out,” Crosby said.
Tim Berni – Jake Christiansen – Trey Fix-Wolansky
Liam Foudy – Johnny Gaudreau – Sean Kuraly
Carson Meyer – Gavin Bayreuther – Emil Bemström
Adam Boqvist – Josh Dunne
David Jiricek – Kent Johnson
Kirill Marchenko – Hunter McKown
Andrew Peeke
Jack Roslovic
Jeff Petry – Josh Archibald – Danton Heinen
Evgeni Malkin – Rickard Rakell – Jeff Carter
Sidney Crosby – Brian Dumoulin – Mikael Granlund
Jake Guentzel – Pierre-Olivier Joseph
Dmitry Kulikov – Kris Letang
Alexander Nylander – Ryan Poehling
Bryan Rust – Jan Rutta
Jason Zucker
Columbus Blue Jackets: Justin Danforth, Eric Robinson, Lane Pederson, Boone Jenner, Patrik Laine, Jake Bean, Elvis Merzlikins , Mathieu Olivier, Erik Gudbranson, Zach Werenski
Pittsburgh Penguins: Drew O’Connor, Nick Bonino, Marcus Pettersson
The game between the Columbus Blue Jackets and Pittsburgh Penguins will take place at Nationwide Arena on Thursday, April 13 at 7:00 PM ET.
The match between the Columbus Blue Jackets and Pittsburgh Penguins will be telecast live on Bally Sports Ohio, Fox Sports Ohio, AT&T SportsNet Pittsburgh.
| Country | Channel | Date and Time |
| United States | Bally Sports Ohio, Fox Sports Ohio, AT&T SportsNet Pittsburgh.. | April 13 (7:00 PM ET) |
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