Columbus Blue Jackets February 2019 Schedule Breakdown
Week Three: February 18th-24th
The Columbus Blue Jackets will open the week with a rare Monday home game against the Tampa Bay Lightning. Even more rare, the game will be followed the next night with a road game in Montreal.
A back-to-back on a Monday-Tuesday might catch the team a little off guard but unless Carey Price is a stonewall, the Jackets should get some points out of these two games.
Another screwball schedule wise is thrown at the Jackets as their next game will be at Ottawa, just a three hour drive up the road from Montreal. But the game isn’t until Friday night. The Jackets will likely say in Canada and not mess with customs and the two additional flights to and from Columbus.
The middle of February isn’t a great time to be in Canada but the Jackets will make due and take care of the Senators. The need those points because they then fly back to Columbus for a Saturday night game against the Western Conference favorites, the San Jose Sharks.
Nationwide Arena will be rocking for this huge game that pits the two best defensive corps in the NHL.
Just from an aesthetic view this is an interesting looking week on the schedule. Bookending the four games are two home matchups against a possible Stanley Cup preview. Sandwiched in-between are the two worst teams in the East.