Bowness Shakes Up Lines, Seeks Offense

0:00It's April 7. Welcome to NHL News today, AI Power Coverage of Your Squad. Columbus Blue Jackets Head Coach Rick Boundess delivered on his promise of big changes, shaking up all four forward lines for Tuesday night's game in. Detroit. Jack Greaves gets the start in net, while Miles Woods sat out the morning skate feeling under the weather. A few players are still game time calls, but the lines look set to roll as practiced. Ken Johnson jumps straight from healthy scratch to the first line on his off-wing. Teaming with Cole Sylinger and Adam Phantilly. Kareel Marchenko shifts to the second with Charlie Coil in Conor Garland. Mason Marchman drops to the third alongside Boone Jenner and Danson. Heinen and Sean Monhan centers the fourth with Luca Del Belbello's and Isac Lundishram. The team has zero goals from forwards in the last 137 minutes and 53 seconds of play, and just 13 tallies across. They're past eight games. With only five regular season games left, they need offense bad to climb the standings.

1:02A win in Detroit plus a regulation loss by the flyers to the Devils would vault Columbus to third in the Metro division thanks to the tiebreaker. Boundess wants more pucks on net from every line, balancing scoring punch with defensive reliability since they lack last change on this road trip. Jenner calls the set of well-balanced, stressing team play and wearing down opponents at 5 on 5. These tweets could spark the chemistry they've been missing, so eyes on how it unfolds tonight.