Kirill Marchenko and Kent Johnson scored in the shootout and the Columbus Blue Jackets rallied to beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-3 on Tuesday night. Elvis Merzlikins, who made 20 saves, stopped Bryan Rust and Sidney Crosby in the shootout, as Columbus came ...

The Pittsburgh Penguins return home to face the Columbus Blue Jackets in a divisional clash at PPG Paints Arena. Welcome back to NHL Predictions here on Last Word on Hockey!

The Blue Jackets and Penguins play for the second time this season. The next two games, however, will be in a house of horrors for Columbus.

From an EDGE stats standpoint, Marchenko checks many boxes that explain his full-fledged breakout season after leading Columbus in goals last season (23 in 78 games); he’s their best in the category again and on pace for 32 goals (18 in first 45 games). He is among the forward leaders in the following categories:

The Blue Jackets losing streak in Pittsburgh is history after ... Prior to the game, the Penguins were 15-0-0 at home against Columbus since Nov. 13, 2015, when they'd last lost to the Blue ...

The Columbus Blue Jackets beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-3 in a shootout after the overtime period at PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh on Tuesday. Dmitri Voronkov of the Blue Jackets scored two goals. The Blue Jackets stand at 17-17-6;

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Monahan's injury, Fantilli's emergence and two more Voronkov goals lead Blue Jackets' takeaways after streak-ending victory in Pittsburgh.

Pittsburgh Penguins center Evgeni Malkin missed Tuesday’s home game against the Columbus Blue Jackets with an upper-body injury

Pittsburgh Penguins' Erik Karlsson (65) checks Columbus Blue Jackets' Kevin Labanc (62) off his skates during the first period of an NHL hockey game in Pittsburgh, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025.

On the other side of things, though, Columbus heads to Pittsburgh with one ... 2017-18 coming into this season, but the Blue Jackets took a 6-2 victory over the Penguins in the first meeting ...

The NHL is back from its holiday roster freeze and fewer than two months away from the trade deadline. So far, there have been 15 trades, four coaching changes, plus extensions signed by Igor Shesterkin,