After the 16 game win streak, many fans kept saying “The team could go .500 the rest of the year and make the playoffs.”
It appears the Blue Jackets may test that theory.
The Blue Jackets announced that Sergei Bobrovsky would miss the contest due to illness, giving newly recalled Anton Forsberg the start, while Joonas Korpisalo would be called up from Cleveland in the wake of Curtis McElhinney being claimed off waivers by Toronto.
This would have been challenging enough, but the Jackets would also lose the services of Matt Calvert, who took the morning skate and warmups, but would be scratched due to illness as well.