How to Watch Columbus Blue Jackets at Minnesota Wild: Stream NHL, TV Channel

The Columbus Blue Jackets face the Minnesota Wild on Thursday in the NHL opener. Watch it live for free on Fubo.

With a retooled top line, the Columbus Blue Jackets begin the 2024-25 National Hockey League season Thursday Night inside the Xcel Energy Center as they open a two-game road trip against the Minnesota Wild. The Blue Jackets signed center Sean Monahan to a five-year deal off a 59-point campaign that saw the 11-year veteran traded from Montreal to Winnipeg at the deadline last season before signing as a free agent. Minnesota’s front line of Kirill Kaprizov and Mats Zuccarello each tallied over 50 assists for the Wild last season and second-line center Joel Eriksson Ek scored a career-high 30 goals a year ago.

How to Watch Columbus Blue Jackets at Minnesota Wild Today:

Game Date: Oct 10, 2024 

Game Time: 8:00 p.m. ET

TV Channel: Bally Sports

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Blue Jackets center Adam Fantilli enters his second season in the NHL off a 27-point season that was cut short due to a lacerated calf in January. Fantilli, the number three pick in the 2023 NHL Draft, posted 13 points in 14 December games in 2023 including a career-high thee points with two goals and an assist in a 7-3 loss at the Islanders.

Columbus has not made the playoffs since 2020 and have finished in eighth place in the Metropolitan Division each of the last two seasons. The Blue Jackets will have some familiarity in tonight’s matchup against the Wild as former Minnesota coach Dean Evason makes his debut behind the Columbus bench against the team that fired him last November. Eavson was 147-77-27 in five seasons as the coach of Minnesota.

Minnesota has dominated this series of late winning seven of the last nine meetings with Columbus and four of the last five games in Minneapolis.

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