National Hockey League
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Columbus 8, Nashville 4
When: 7:00 PM ET, Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Where: Nationwide Arena, Columbus, Ohio
Referees: Mitch Dunning, Jean Hebert
Linesmen: Shandor Alphonso, CJ Murray
Attendance: 15605
Final Scoring Summary
 
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Nashville 1214
Columbus 3418
Scoring/Penalty Summary
1st Period
Scoring
1:15 - Blue Jackets Kirill Marchenko (EV) Assists: Zach Werenski
16:34 - Blue Jackets Adam Fantilli (EV) Assists: Denton Mateychuk , Kent Johnson
18:10 - Blue Jackets Sean Monahan (PP) Assists: Kent Johnson , Zach Werenski
18:34 - Predators Filip Forsberg (EV) Assists: Luke Evangelista , Ryan O'Reilly
Penalties
17:10 - Predators Andreas Englund (2) Holding the stick
2nd Period
Scoring
4:12 - Blue Jackets Kirill Marchenko (EV) Assists: Sean Monahan
5:43 - Predators Michael Bunting (EV) Assists: Fedor Svechkov , Luke Evangelista
6:26 - Predators Justin Barron (EV) Assists: Jakub Vrana
12:00 - Blue Jackets Adam Fantilli (EV) Assists: Boone Jenner
16:47 - Blue Jackets Sean Monahan (PP) Assists: Kirill Marchenko , Boone Jenner
19:41 - Blue Jackets Dante Fabbro (EV) Assists: Adam Fantilli , Kent Johnson
Penalties
15:10 - Predators Filip Forsberg (2) Slashing
 20:00 - Blue Jackets Damon Severson (2) Hooking
3rd Period
Scoring
5:23 - Blue Jackets Kirill Marchenko (EV) Assists: Sean Monahan , Dante Fabbro
9:02 - Predators Jordan Oesterle (EV) Assists: Cole Smith , Michael McCarron
Penalties
1:04 - Predators Luke Evangelista (2) Tripping
 6:23 - Blue Jackets Sean Kuraly (2) High sticking
 11:04 - Blue Jackets Ivan Provorov (2) Interference
 14:27 - Blue Jackets Ivan Provorov (2) Roughing
 14:27 - Predators Michael Bunting (2) Roughing
 14:27 - Predators Michael Bunting (2) Roughing
 16:40 - Blue Jackets Damon Severson (2) Tripping
 17:23 - Predators Fedor Svechkov (2) Hooking
 18:34 - Blue Jackets Ivan Provorov (2) Holding
 18:34 - Predators Ryan O'Reilly (2) Unsportsmanlike conduct
 18:34 - Blue Jackets Ivan Provorov (5) Fighting
 18:34 - Predators Ryan O'Reilly (5) Fighting
Nashville Predators
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG SHF TOI EV PP SH PP SH HT BS FW FL FO%
Justus Annunen G 0 0 0 0 0 20:00 10:26 5:47 3:47 0 0 - - - - -
Juuse Saros G 0 0 0 0 0 40:00 37:23 0:00 2:37 0 0 - - - - -
Marc Del Gaizo D 0 0 0 -1 0 3 20 17:01 15:29 0:04 1:28 0 0 - 1 - - -
Andreas Englund D 0 0 0 -2 2 0 18 11:48 10:36 0:00 1:12 0 0 - 1 - - -
Filip Forsberg LW 1 0 1 -2 2 4 21 18:49 15:26 2:56 0:27 0 0 - - - - -
Jakub Vrana LW 0 1 1 E 0 1 14 12:12 9:51 2:21 0:00 0 0 - 1 1 1 50
Justin Barron D 1 0 1 E 0 3 24 19:44 18:35 0:04 1:05 0 0 1 2 - - -
Spencer Stastney D 0 0 0 E 0 1 17 14:11 11:50 0:03 2:18 0 0 - - - - -
Kieffer Bellows LW 0 0 0 -2 0 1 13 9:56 7:10 2:46 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Cole Smith LW 0 1 1 E 0 1 19 16:55 12:43 0:00 4:12 0 0 - - 0 1 0
Nick Blankenburg D 0 0 0 E 0 0 21 17:53 12:51 2:59 2:03 0 0 - 2 - - -
Fedor Svechkov C 0 1 1 -1 2 2 19 17:17 13:33 2:50 0:54 0 0 - - 2 4 33
Michael McCarron RW 0 1 1 +2 0 0 24 18:03 13:09 0:04 4:50 0 0 2 - 12 11 52
Michael Bunting LW 1 0 1 E 4 4 20 16:59 14:42 2:12 0:05 0 0 1 - - - -
Zachary L'Heureux LW 0 0 0 E 0 1 20 15:29 13:04 0:47 1:38 0 0 6 1 0 1 0
Brady Skjei D 0 0 0 E 0 1 23 20:17 14:54 2:43 2:40 0 0 - 1 - - -
Luke Evangelista RW 0 2 2 +1 2 3 17 15:42 12:17 3:25 0:00 0 0 - 1 - - -
Jordan Oesterle D 1 0 1 -1 0 1 16 13:11 11:08 0:00 2:03 0 0 - 2 - - -
Ryan O'Reilly C 0 1 1 E 7 1 21 19:44 16:12 2:51 0:41 0 0 - 2 10 10 50
Steven Stamkos C 0 0 0 -4 0 1 17 16:12 13:22 2:50 0:00 0 0 - - 1 6 14
Columbus Blue Jackets
Player POS G A P +/- PIM SOG SHF TOI EV PP SH PP SH HT BS FW FL FO%
Daniil Tarasov G 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0:00 0:00 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Elvis Merzlikins G 0 0 0 0 0 59:38 47:49 6:24 5:25 0 0 - - - - -
Cole Sillinger C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 15 12:39 11:33 1:06 0:00 0 0 1 1 2 1 67
Denton Mateychuk D 0 1 1 +2 0 1 22 18:52 15:35 1:33 1:44 0 0 1 - - - -
Sean Kuraly C 0 0 0 -2 2 2 18 17:41 14:57 2:06 0:38 0 0 2 - 14 4 78
Zach Werenski D 0 2 2 +2 0 4 22 19:18 14:58 3:41 0:39 0 0 - - - - -
Ivan Provorov D 0 0 0 +1 11 0 22 21:05 18:17 0:00 2:48 0 0 1 1 - - -
Dmitri Voronkov LW 0 0 0 +3 0 1 17 13:40 13:40 0:00 0:00 0 0 3 - 0 1 0
Luke Kunin C 0 0 0 -1 0 2 18 15:23 11:50 1:22 2:11 0 0 2 2 1 0 100
Dante Fabbro D 1 1 2 +2 0 2 23 20:41 16:17 2:09 2:15 0 0 1 - - - -
Justin Danforth RW 0 0 0 -2 0 2 17 13:40 11:07 1:20 1:13 0 0 2 - 4 5 44
Adam Fantilli C 2 1 3 +2 0 3 16 11:43 11:31 0:06 0:06 0 0 - - 5 3 62
Sean Monahan C 2 2 4 +3 0 5 20 17:13 11:11 3:27 2:35 2 0 - 2 7 11 39
Mathieu Olivier RW 0 0 0 -1 0 18 15:58 12:49 1:21 1:48 0 0 2 1 - - -
Zachary Aston-Reese C 0 0 0 -1 0 3 17 14:59 10:37 1:02 3:20 0 0 4 3 - - -
Boone Jenner C 0 2 2 +1 0 1 16 13:15 9:35 3:35 0:05 0 0 1 1 1 1 50
Erik Gudbranson D 0 0 0 -2 0 2 24 19:59 14:31 1:20 4:08 0 0 1 - - - -
Damon Severson D 0 0 0 -1 4 1 23 16:49 16:05 0:44 0:00 0 0 - - - - -
Kirill Marchenko RW 3 1 4 +3 0 6 18 16:00 12:33 3:27 0:00 0 0 1 - - - -
Kent Johnson C 0 3 3 +2 0 17 13:27 9:46 3:41 0:00 0 0 - 1 - - -
Goaltending
Nashville
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Juuse Saros L (18-29-6) 26 19 7 .731 0 40:00
Justus Annunen 11 10 1 .909 0 20:00
Columbus
  Shots Saves GA SV % PIM TOI
Elvis Merzlikins W (25-19-5) 28 24 4 .857 0 59:38