NHL Game Preview: Colorado Avalanche at Tampa Bay Lightning with Line Combinations 1/6/2026

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Colorado Avalanche (31-3-7, 69 pts) at Tampa Bay Lightning (25-13-3, 53 pts)

Venue: Benchmark International Arena
Date: Tuesday, January 6
Time: 7:00 pm EST
How To Watch: ESPN+/ALT/The Spot
Radio: 92.5 ALT/102.5 The Bone

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Colorado Avalanche News & Notes:

The Avalanche had their ten game point streak and 12-game point streak snapped on Sunday in a 2-1 loss to the Panthers. They’re 4-1-0 in their last five games now, averaging 4.6 goals per game while allowing 2.6 goals per game.

Tampa Bay Lightning News & Notes:

The Lightning picked up their seventh straight win with a 7-3 win over the Sharks on Saturday. They’re averaging five goals per game while allowing 2.9 goals per game.

Colorado Avalanche Projected Lines:

Lehkonen-MacKinnon-Necas
Colton-Nelson-Nichushkin
Olofsson-Drury-Brindley
Bardakov-Kelly-Makar

Girard-Makar
Manson-Burns
Solovyov-Malinski

Wedgewood
Miner

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Tampa Bay Lightning Projected Lines:

Goncalves-Point-Kucherov
Hagel-Cirelli-Guentzel
Girgensons-Gourde-Holmberg
Paul-James-Bjorkstrand

Moser-Raddysh
D’astous-Cernak
Carlile-Crozier

Vasilevskiy
Johansson

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Players To Watch:

Colorado Avalanche

Victor Olofsson scored two of the Avalanche three goals in their 3-2 win over Tampa Bay back in November.

Tampa Bay Lightning

Nikita Kucherov scored one of the two Lightning goals in their loss back on November 4th.

Injury Report:

Colorado Avalanche

F Logan O’Connor – Out
F Joel Kiviranta – DTD
G MacKenzie Blackwood – IR
D Devon Toews – DTD
F Gabriel Landeskog – Out

Tampa Bay Lightning

D Emil Lilleberg – IR
D Victor Hedman – IR
F Scott Sabourin – IR
D Ryan McDonagh – IR

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