Nutivaara (upper body) won't travel with the Blue Jackets to Arizona for Thursday's clash with the Coyotes, Blue Jackets team reporter Jeff Svoboda reports.
Thursday's contest is the first in a three-game road trip for Columbus, so at this point it seems like a foregone conclusion that Nutivaara will miss multiple matches with the upper-body injury he sustained Tuesday versus Vegas. Scott Harrington is the leading candidate to replace Nutivaara on the Blue Jackets' bottom pairing.