Blue Jackets head to Buffalo for preseason game No. 4

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By Jeff Svoboda
BlueJackets.com

The Blue Jackets kick off a stretch of five preseason games in eight days with an afternoon matinee Saturday at Buffalo. The 3 p.m. game will be streamed on BlueJackets.com and heard on the club's app as well as flagship station 97.1 The Fan.

Columbus enters the game 1-1-1 on the preseason, and Saturday's game will mark the preseason debuts of forward Kirill Marchenko and defenseman Ivan Provorov. 

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After Saturday, the Blue Jackets will play three home exhibition games next week on Monday (St. Louis), Wednesday (Buffalo) and Thursday (Washington) at Nationwide Arena.

The full game roster is listed below in numerical order.

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Forwards

10 Dmitri Voronkov
11 Adam Fantilli
17 Justin Danforth
21 Josh Dunne
25 Stefan Matteau
29 Patrik Laine
52 Emil Bemstrom
67 James Malatesta
69 Jordan Dumais
86 Kirill Marchenko
91 Kent Johnson
96 Jack Roslovic

Defensemen

5 Denton Mateychuk
8 Zach Werenski
9 Ivan Provorov
27 Adam Boqvist
44 Erik Gudbranson
55 David Jiricek

Goaltenders

35 Aaron Dell
90 Elvis Merzlikins
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