NHL Game Preview: Colorado Avalanche at Chicago Blackhawks with Line Combinations 11/23/2025

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Colorado Avalanche (15-1-5, 35 pts) at Chicago Blackhawks (10-7-4, 24 pts)

Venue: United Center
Date: Sunday, November 23
Time: 7:00 pm ET
TV: NHL Network/ALT/CHSN
Radio: Altitude Sports Radio 950 AM/WGN-AM 720 Chicago

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Colorado Avalanche News and Notes:

The Avalanche picked up their eight straight win last night with a 3-0 win over Nashville. They’re 8-0-1 in November, averaging 4.7 goals per game while allowing two goals per game.

Chicago Blackhawks News and Notes:

The Blackhawks suffered a tough loss on Friday night as they were beat by the Sabres 9-3. The loss was their second straight as they’re 5-3-2 in November, averaging 3.3 goals per game while allowing 2.9 goals per game.

Colorado Avalanche Projected Lines:

Lehkonen-MacKinnon-Necas
Landeskog-Nelson-Lehkonen
Kelly-Drury-Olofsson
Polin-Bardakov-Nielsen

Toews-Makar
Manson-Burns
Girard-Malinski

Blackwood
Wedgewood

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Chicago Blackhawks Projected Lines:

Greene-Bedard-Bertuzzi
Moore-Nazar-Teravainen
Dach-Donato-Mikheyev
Slaggert-Lafferty

Vlasic-Crevier
Kaiser-Levshunov
Grzelcyk-Murphy
Rinzel

Knight
Soderblom

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Players to Watch:

Colorado Avalanche

Martin Necas had a point in every game he faced against the Blackhawks. He recorded an assist in his lone game against them with Carolina. He scored a goal in both games against Chicago since he joined Colorado.

Chicago Blackhawks

Ilya Mikheyev scored a goal in three of the four games he faced the Avalanche in last season.

Injury Report:

Colorado Avalanche:

LW Joel Kiviranta – Out
RW Valeri Nichushkin – Out
RW Gavin Brindley – Out
RW Logan O’Connor – IT

Chicago Blackhawks

F Jason Dickinson – IR
F Andre Burakovsky – Out
G Laurent Brossoit – IR
F Nick Foligno – IR

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