{"id":375999,"date":"2025-12-27T16:03:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T16:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/375999\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T16:03:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T16:03:18","slug":"nhl-game-preview-nashville-predators-at-st-louis-blues-with-line-combinations-12-27-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/375999\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Game Preview: Nashville Predators at St. Louis Blues with Line Combinations 12\/27\/2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"St.<\/p>\n

Photo: Andrew Nelles-The Tennessean<\/p>\n

Nashville Predators (16-16-4) at St. Louis Blues (14-16-8)
Venue: Enterprise Center
Date: Saturday, December 27
Time: 8:00 pm EST
How To Watch:\u00a0ESPN+, FDSNSO, FDSMW
Radio:\u00a0102.5 The Game, 101 ESPN<\/p>\n

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Nashville Predators News & Notes:<\/p>\n

The Predators entered the Christmas break on a three-game win streak and will look to keep it going. Nashville has dominated the Blues this season, winning the two previous meetings by scores of 7\u20132 and 5\u20132. They are averaging 2.81 goals scored per game while allowing 2.75.<\/p>\n

St. Louis Blues News & Notes:<\/p>\n

The Blues entered the Christmas break coming off a tough 4\u20131 loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning. St. Louis is still searching for lineup consistency and will look to set the tone against a Central Division opponent that has dominated them twice this season. The Blues are 2-2-1 in their last five games, averaging 2.50 goals per game while allowing 3.03.<\/p>\n

Nashville Predators Projected Lines:<\/p>\n

Forsberg-O\u2019Reilly-Evangelista
Bunting-Haula-Stamkos
Jost-Svechkov-Wood
Schaefer-McCarron-Smith<\/p>\n

Josi-Perbix
Skjei-Wilsby
Hague-Blankenburg<\/p>\n

Saros
Annunen<\/p>\n

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St. Louis Blues Projected Lines:<\/p>\n

Berggen-Thomas-Buchnevich
Neighbours-Schenn-Stenberg
Suter-Dvorsky-Fabbri
Toropchenko-Sundqvist-Joseph<\/p>\n

Broberg-Parayko
Tucker-Faulk
Fowler-Mailloux<\/p>\n

Hofer
Binnington<\/p>\n

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Players To Watch:<\/p>\n

Nashville Predators<\/p>\n

Filip Forsberg<\/a> scored three goals in the last meeting against the Blues and has 16 goals and 29 points on the season.<\/p>\n

St. Louis Blues<\/p>\n

Jonatan Berggren<\/a> has two goals and four points in four games with the Blues and has earned top-line minutes as a new addition.<\/p>\n

Injury Report:<\/p>\n

Nashville Predators<\/p>\n

RW Jonathan Marchessault \u2013 OUT<\/p>\n

St. Louis Blues<\/p>\n

LW Dylan Holloway \u2013 IR
RW\u00a0Jimmy Snuggerud\u00a0\u2013 IR
RW\u00a0Jordan Kyrou\u00a0\u2013 IR
C Nick Bjugstad \u2013 IR<\/p>\n

Next Game:<\/p>\n

Nashville Predators\u00a0\u2013 December 29 at Utah Mammoth
St. Louis Blues \u00a0\u2013 December 29 vs. Buffalo Sabres<\/p>\n

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Joshua Michel<\/a><\/p>\n

Writer covering the St. Louis Blues | Student at the University of Missouri School of Journalism | Follow me on X for live Blues updates and news: @JoshDMichel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Andrew Nelles-The Tennessean Nashville Predators (16-16-4) at St. Louis Blues (14-16-8)Venue: Enterprise CenterDate: Saturday, December 27Time: 8:00…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5120],"tags":[71,3577,5,5236,7394,37237,36147,4,45174,19906,534,84,5285,5284],"class_list":{"0":"post-375999","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-louis-blues","8":"tag-blues","9":"tag-filip-forsberg","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-injury-report","12":"tag-jonatan-berggren","13":"tag-line-projections","14":"tag-news-notes","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-players-to-watch","17":"tag-projected-lines","18":"tag-st-louis","19":"tag-st-louis-blues","20":"tag-stlouis","21":"tag-stlouisblues"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115792380457667664","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375999","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=375999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}