{"id":363618,"date":"2025-12-19T05:09:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T05:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/363618\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T05:09:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T05:09:15","slug":"nhl-game-preview-winnipeg-jets-at-colorado-avalanche-with-line-combinations-12-19-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/363618\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Game Preview: Winnipeg Jets at Colorado Avalanche with Line Combinations (12\/19\/2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/JETS-VS-AVALANCHE.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"Winnipeg Jets vs Colorado Avalanche\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: Conrad Jack (Inside The Rink)<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg Jets (15-16-2) at Colorado Avalanche (24-2-7)<br \/>Venue: Ball Arena<br \/>Date: Tonight \u2013 Friday, December 19<br \/>Time: 8:00 pm CST<br \/>How To Watch: TSN3<br \/>Radio: 680 CJOB<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ticketmaster.evyy.net\/c\/5142595\/264167\/4272?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ticketmaster.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Purchase tickets via Ticketmaster<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg Jets News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Winnipeg Jets are coming off a 1-0 loss to the St. Louis Blues, and as the team aims to get back into the win column, it will not be an easy task. They face the red-hot Avalanche in Colorado tonight as they aim to even up this road trip.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado Avalanche News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Colorado Avalanche are rolling to start the season, and their 7-1-2 record in their last 10 is just a small sample of their dominance this year. They welcome the Winnipeg Jets tonight at Ball Arena in a Central Division matchup.<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg Jets Projected Lines<\/p>\n<p>Connor \u2013 Scheifele \u2013 Vilardi<br \/>Niederreiter \u2013 Namestnikov \u2013 Perfetti<br \/>Barron \u2013 Lowry \u2013 Iafallo<br \/>Koepke \u2013 Toews \u2013 Nyquist<\/p>\n<p>Morrissey \u2013 DeMelo<br \/>Samberg \u2013 Pionk<br \/>Stanley \u2013 Schenn<\/p>\n<p>Hellebuyck<br \/>Comrie<\/p>\n<p>Colorado Avalanche Projected Lines<\/p>\n<p>Lehkonen \u2013 MacKinnon \u2013 Necas<br \/>Landeskog \u2013 Nelson \u2013 Nichuskin<br \/>Olofsson \u2013 Colton \u2013 Brindley<br \/>Kelly \u2013 Drury \u2013 Kiviranta<\/p>\n<p>Toews \u2013 Makar<br \/>Manson \u2013 Burns<br \/>Girard \u2013 Milinski<\/p>\n<p>Blackwood<br \/>Wedgewood<\/p>\n<p>Players To Watch:<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg Jets<\/p>\n<p>Logan Stanley and the Jets were shut out in their previous game, and if he rides the hot hand, Stanley can perform in a capacity that the Jets are looking for, especially with secondary scoring.<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Connor is the \u2018it\u2019 factor the Jets need, and it needs to come out in a game where the Jets need scoring from the top and bottom of their lineup.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado Avalanche<\/p>\n<p>Gabriel Landeskog has cemented himself as a true warrior on the Colorado Avalanche roster, and each game solidifies his captaincy and legacy in Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>Nathan MacKinnon has been tearing up the NHL, and he is one of the most dangerous players outside of Cale Makar to suit up for the Avalanche in tonight\u2019s contest against Winnipeg.<\/p>\n<p>Next game<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg Jets \u2013 December 21 vs Utah Mammoth<br \/>Colorado Avalanche \u2013 December 21 vs Minnesota Wild<\/p>\n<p>\tDiscover more from Inside The Rink<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:15px\">Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/author\/cjack\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766120955_657_e50dfbea4641d046ef8e16e2e54ca52abea6c285162ff2d320dc3eb277ca8c8d\"  class=\"avatar avatar-75 photo\" height=\"75\" width=\"75\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/author\/cjack\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Conrad Jack<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Conrad Jack is a Manitoba based sportswriter covering the Winnipeg Jets (NHL) and the Manitoba Moose (AHL). He also covers the NHL Draft and World Junior Championship for ITR. He also writes the NHL News &amp; Rumors blog at ITR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo Credit: Conrad Jack (Inside The Rink) Winnipeg Jets (15-16-2) at Colorado Avalanche (24-2-7)Venue: Ball ArenaDate: Tonight \u2013&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5116],"tags":[3345,193,1116,192,144,5277,7,5,1290,4492,517,4,5573,18],"class_list":{"0":"post-363618","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-colorado-avalanche","8":"tag-2025-26-nhl-season","9":"tag-avalanche","10":"tag-cale-makar","11":"tag-colorado","12":"tag-colorado-avalanche","13":"tag-coloradoavalanche","14":"tag-gabriel-landeskog","15":"tag-hockey","16":"tag-kyle-connor","17":"tag-logan-stanley","18":"tag-nathan-mackinnon","19":"tag-nhl","20":"tag-nhl-game-preview","21":"tag-winnipeg-jets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115744510590310995","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}