Carolina Hurricanes @ Columbus Blue Jackets
Charlie Coyle's 4-point night leads the Blue Jackets to a 5-1 win over the Hurricanes
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- — Charlie Coyle had a goal and three assists, Danton Heinen scored his 100th career goal and the Columbus Blue Jackets beat the Carolina Hurricanes 5-1 on Tuesday night.
Mason Marchment, Denton Mateychuk and Mathieu Olivier also scored for Columbus, which has gotten points in a season-high 10-straight games (6-0-4). Cole Sillinger and Adam Fantilli each added two assist, and Jet Greaves stopped 27 shots.
Andrei Svechnikov scored and Brandon Bussi made 25 saves for the Hurricanes.
Marchment scored on a power play 5:25 into the first period, and the Blue Jackets have scored in the opening 10 minutes in 13 of their last 20 games. Coyle added another power-play goal in the final minute of the first.
Svechnikov scored his 25th goal of the season with 5:55 left in the second period before Heinen and Mateychuk scored 34 seconds apart.
Olivier capped the scoring 7:38 into the third period.
Hurricanes: Host Pittsburgh on Wednesday.
Blue Jackets: Host the New York Rangers on Thursday.
------
AP NHL: https://apnews.com/NHL
------
The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.
Regular Season Series
Series tied 1-1
Game Information
- Referees:
- Jean Hebert
- Brandon Blandina
- Linesmen:
- Andrew Smith
- CJ Murray
2025-26 Metropolitan Division Standings
| Team | W | L | OTL | PTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carolina | 42 | 19 | 6 | 90 |
| Pittsburgh | 34 | 18 | 15 | 83 |
| NY Islanders | 39 | 24 | 5 | 83 |
| Columbus | 35 | 21 | 11 | 81 |
| Philadelphia | 31 | 23 | 12 | 74 |
| Washington | 33 | 27 | 8 | 74 |
| New Jersey | 34 | 31 | 2 | 70 |
| NY Rangers | 28 | 31 | 8 | 64 |

