The Blue Jackets travel to Boston tonight to face their Opening Night foes, the Boston Bruins. However, don’t count on this one as a scouting exercise for the opener, as injuries, the World Cup and the need to make a lot of personnel decisions very quickly.
Boston’s announced line-up for this evening is as follows:
Forwards: Colby Cave, Peter Cehlarik, Austin Czarnik, Jake DeBrusk, Seth Griffith, Colton Hargrove, Jimmy Hayes, Danton Heinen, Sean Kuraly, Peter Mueller, Riley Nash and Tyler Randell
Defense: Brandon Carlo, John-Michael Liles, Joe Morrow, Kevin Miller, Jakub Zboril (6th D undetermined at press time)
Goalies: Anton Khudobin, Zane McIntyre
The Blue Jackets will counter with:
Forwards: Alexander Wennberg, Mike Brown, Brandon Saad, Sonny Milano, William Karlsson, Oliver Bjorkstrand, Markus Hannikainen, Josh Anderson, Lukas Sedlak, Daniel Zaar, Vitaly Abramov and Sam Gagner
Defense: Seth Jones, Cody Goloubef, Dalton Prout, Scott Harrington, Markus Nutivaara, Oleg Yevenko
Goalies: Curtis McElhinney, Michael Houser
This should be an entertaining affair, with promotion candidates Bjorkstrand, Anderson, Milano, Zaar and Sedlak all in the lineup.