Columbus Blue Jackets vs. New York Rangers: Preview and Expectations

Players To Watch

For the Columbus Blue Jackets, the players to keep an eye on start with Sonny Milano and Sergei Bobrovsky.

Sonny Milano has been on fire lately. His four goals leads the team and he has elevated the play of those around him.

He’s really more of a playmaker than a goal-scorer by trade, though.  It’ll be interesting to watch Sonny play these next few games to see if he starts trying to shoot more, or if he sticks to what he knows best.

Bobrovsky has been all-world to start the season. It’s been great to see a sharp and on-point Bob for his first two games played.

His post-game interview on Tuesday was noteworthy because he seemed so confident.

This is exactly how the Blue Jackets need Bobrovsky to be. Other players to watch in this game will be Cam Atkinson and Oliver Bjorkstrand.

Atkinson seems to love playing against the team he rooted for growing up, or at least he loves scoring goals against them. Cam had success against the Rangers last year and I suspect he builds on that this year.

For Bjorkstrand, it hasn’t been the hottest of starts, but he has played with Sonny Milano a bit. He’s going to start scoring goals sooner rather than later.