by Aaron Portzline, The Columbus Dispatch , The Columbus Dispatch

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\ The series

The Blue Jackets are 10-20-0-3 all time against San Jose, including 9-6-0-1 in Nationwide Arena. This is the second of four meetings this season.

\ The setup

The Blue Jackets must stay out of the penalty box and keep the Sharks' power play off the ice. ... The Sharks play at Detroit on Thursday, so they could be looking ahead. ... The Blue Jackets have won four of the past five against the Sharks in Nationwide. ... Former Blue Jackets center Manny Malhotra makes his first trip to Nationwide since joining San Jose as a free agent this past summer. Amid of slew of injuries, he's playing left wing on the No. 2 line. \

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\ \ Columbus Blue Jackets at a glance \

* Past 10 games: 5-4-1

* Power play: 22.8 percent (11th in the NHL)

* Penalty kill: 79.3 percent (17th)

* Player to watch: D Jan Hejda jumps back into the fire, playing his first game in three weeks against one of the NHL's most dangerous offensive clubs.

* Injury update: Hejda (sprained knee), probable; D Mike Commodore (charley horse), questionable; LW Nikita Filatov (back spasms), doubtful; LW Fredrik Modin (sprained knee), out. \

\ \ San Jose Sharks at a glance \

* Past 10 games: 7-2-1

* Power play: 25.0 percent (sixth)

* Penalty kill: 85.0 percent (sixth)

* Player to watch: C Patrick Marleau is off to the best start of his career, on pace for 60 goals and 114 points.

* Injury update: RW Devin Setoguchi (leg), C Torrey Mitchell (knee), C Joe Pavelski (foot) and RW Ryan Vesce (leg), out

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