Blue Jackets at Rangers preview

BLUE JACKETS (21-12-3) at RANGERS (15-14-6)
7 p.m. ET; MSG 2, FS-O, NHL.TV

The Rangers have points in six straight home games, but only two wins in the stretch (2-0-4). They have won three of 13 games (3-6-4) since Nov. 23.
Korpisalo will start his first game since Dec. 11, when he allowed three goals in a 3-2 loss to the Vancouver Canucks. Columbus hasn't lost in regulation since, going 5-0-1 behind goalie Sergei Bobrovsky, the NHL's First Star of the Week last week.
Korpisalo is 5-2-2 with a 3.54 goals-against average and .885 save percentage in 12 appearances this season. He allowed four goals in a 5-4 shootout loss to the Rangers at Nationwide Arena on Nov. 10.

Players to watch

Blue Jackets right wing Cam Atkinson has four goals in a three-game point streak. He has 17 goals in 20 games since Nov. 10.
Rangers center Kevin Hayes carries a career-long seven-game point streak into the game. He has 13 points (five goals, eight assists) during the streak.

They said it

"It's time to get back to work. I mean, it's simple. You had your break. We're going to play against a very fast team tonight, a team that's playing … that's struggled a little bit getting their points of late, but it's a good team. Christmas is over." -- Blue Jackets coach John Tortorella
"From our standpoint, we've given up seven scoring chances against Anaheim, 16 against Toronto and 14 against Philly. If you're around that 15 area you've got a great chance to win hockey games and we've been much better structurally defensively over the last three games. We haven't been giving up those crazy chances and people haven't had flurries against us. That's been good to see." --Rangers coach David Quinn

Blue Jackets projected lineup

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

Rangers projected lineup

Filip Chytil -- Mika Zibanejad -- Pavel Buchnevich
Chris Kreider -- Kevin Hayes -- Mats Zuccarello
Jimmy Vesey -- Brett Howden -- Vladislav Namestnikov
Lias Andersson -- Boo Nieves -- Ryan Strome
Marc Staal -- Neal Pionk
Brady Skjei -- Adam McQuaid
Fredrik Claesson -- Brendan Smith
Henrik Lundqvist
Alexandar Georgiev
Scratched: Tony DeAngelo
Injured: Cody McLeod (fractured left hand), Kevin Shattenkirk (separated shoulder), Jesper Fast (upper body)

Status report

Shattenkirk, McLeod and Fast participated in the morning skate. They're all day-to-day and could return Saturday at the Nashville Predators, Quinn said.

Stat pack

Columbus can tie its season long point streak against the Rangers. It went 5-0-2 from Nov. 6-17. … The Rangers have gone to overtime in five of eight games since Dec. 2.