Blue Jackets at Panthers preview

BLUE JACKETS (23-14-3) at PANTHERS (17-16-6)
7 p.m. ET; FS-F, FS-O, NHL.TV

The Blue Jackets, 6-2-0 in their past eight games, look to bounce back after a 4-2 loss at the Carolina Hurricanes on Friday. Goalie Sergei Bobrovsky will start; he was pulled in favor of Joonas Korpisalo after allowing three goals on 16 shots against the Hurricanes.
Columbus will try to sweep their second consecutive three-game season sweep of Florida; the Blue Jackets won 5-4 at BB&T Center on Oct. 11 and 7-3 at Nationwide Arena on Nov. 15.
Goalie James Reimer will start for the Panthers, 6-3-0 in their past nine games. Reimer will try to win for the fourth straight time; he's 3-0-0 with a 1.45 goals-against average and .947 save percentage in his past three games (two starts).

Players to watch

Blue Jackets forward Artemi Panarin has 10 points (four goals, six assists) in a six-game point streak.
Panthers center Aleksander Barkov has 13 points (five goals, eight assists) in his past nine games.

They said it

"For us, the second, third and fourth line have to start chipping away here. As the season moves on, we're going to need secondary scoring to move up in the standings and hopefully have a long playoff run." -- Blue Jackets forward Anthony Duclair
"If [goalie Roberto Luongo] is being honest with himself - and he always is - he's not overly happy with his last couple of games and [Reimer] has played well. So it's an obvious choice for us. But we know that [Luongo] will go back in and when he does he's doing to find his game like he always has." -- Panthers coach Bob Boughner on the choice to start goalie James Reimer on Saturday

Blue Jackets projected lineup

Artemi Panarin -- Pierre-Luc Dubois -- Cam Atkinson
Anthony Duclair -- Alex Wennberg -- Josh Anderson
Markus Hannikainen -- Boone Jenner -- Oliver Bjorkstrand
Lukas Sedlak -- Brandon Dubinsky -- Riley Nash
Zach Werenski -- Seth Jones
Ryan Murray -- Markus Nutivaara
Scott Harrington -- David Savard
Sergei Bobrovsky
Joonas Korpisalo
Scratched: Dean Kukan, Nick Foligno, Eric Robinson
Injured: None

Panthers projected lineup

Jonathan Huberdeau -- Aleksander Barkov -- Evgenii Dadonov
Frank Vatrano - Henrik Borgstrom -- Mike Hoffman
Colton Sceviour - Jared McCann -- Troy Brouwer
Micheal Haley -- Juho Lammikko - Jayce Hawryluk
Keith Yandle -- Aaron Ekblad
Mike Matheson -- Mark Pysyk
MacKenzie Weegar - Chris Wideman
James Reimer
Roberto Luongo
Scratched:Denis Malgin, Bogdan Kiselevich
Injured: Nick Bjugstad (upper body), Vincent Trocheck (ankle), Derek MacKenzie (shoulder), Jamie McGinn (back)

Status report

Neither team held a morning skate. … Foligno is expected to miss his third consecutive game to be with his daughter, who recently had surgery. … Wideman will play his first game for the Panthers after being acquired in a trade with the Edmonton Oilers on Sunday.

Stat pack

Werenski has seven points (two goals, five assists) in a six-game point streak. … Columbus is 0-for-21 on the power play over its past nine games. … Yandle is one point shy of 500 in his NHL career.