Tonight the Nashville Predators (6-10-0, 7th in Central) take on the Columbus Blue Jackets (8-6-4, 5th in Central) at Nationwide Arena in downtown Columbus. The Predators, after winning their first two games of the season against the Blue Jackets, have lost ten of their last fourteen games. Meanwhile, the Blue Jackets traded rising star center Pierre Luc-DuBois for established star winger Patrik Laine.
If it felt like the teams were trending in opposite directions since their first meetings, that sensation was established on Thursday night when the Blue Jackets emphatically shut out the Predators 3-0.