The 2021-22 season is officially underway, with the Arizona Coyotes playing their first game of the season tonight against the Columbus Blue Jackets.
These two teams haven’t met since December 3, 2019, a game that saw the Coyotes pull off a 4-2 win, with Clayton Keller, Christian Fischer, Lawson Crouse, and Carl Söderberg.
A lot has changed since that matchup. Both teams have new coaches, Brad Larsen for the Blue Jackets and André Tourigny for the Coyotes, and both teams have had substantial roster shakeups as both teams traded veterans for picks to jumpstart their rebuilds.