{"id":384049,"date":"2026-01-01T02:56:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T02:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/384049\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T02:56:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T02:56:32","slug":"nhl-game-preview-st-louis-blues-at-colorado-avalanche-with-line-combinations-12-31-2025-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/384049\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Game Preview: St. Louis Blues at Colorado Avalanche with Line Combinations 12\/31\/2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img width=\"1200\" height=\"601\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/images_GettyImages_mmsport_104_01jr4he9kr2nzsfx0e7b-1-e1767198983944.webp.webp\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"St. Louis Blues vs. Colorado Avalanche\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Dilip Vishwanat-GettyImages<\/p>\n<p>St. Louis Blues (15-17-8) at Colorado Avalanche (29-2-7)<br \/>Date: Wednesday, December 31<br \/>Time: 9:00 pm EST<br \/>How To Watch:\u00a0FDSNMW, ALT<br \/>Radio:\u00a0101 ESPN, 560 AM WQAM<\/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>St. Louis Blues News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Blues are coming off a 4-2 loss to a red-hot Sabres lineup on Monday. They will face the NHL\u2019s top team, the Colorado Avalanche, for the first time this season, with two more matchups scheduled later on. St. Louis is 2-2-1 in their last five games, averaging 2.50 goals per game while allowing 3.38.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado Avalanche News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Avalanche have won their last eight, with the most recent win against the Kings 5-2 on Monday. Colorado currently sits at the top of the NHL standings with 65 points. They are averaging 4.00 goals per game while allowing 2.18.<\/p>\n<p>St. Louis Blues Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p>Neighbours-Thomas-Buchnevich<br \/>Stenberg-Schenn-Kyrou<br \/>Fabbri-Dvorsky-Snuggerud<br \/>Toropchenko-Sundqvist-Joseph<\/p>\n<p>Broberg-Parayko<br \/>Tucker-Faulk<br \/>Fowler-Mailloux<\/p>\n<p>Hofer<br \/>Binnington<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/search?q=St.+Louis&amp;options%5Bprefix%5D=last\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get your St. Louis Hockey Merchandise Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Colorado Avalanche Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p>Landeskog-MacKinnon-Necas<br \/>Lehkonen-Nelson-Nichushkin<br \/>Olofsson-Colton-Brindley<br \/>Kelly-Drury-Kiviranta<\/p>\n<p>Toews-Makar<br \/>Manson-Burns<br \/>Girard-Malinski<\/p>\n<p>Blackwood<br \/>Wedgewood<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/search?q=Colorado&amp;options%5Bprefix%5D=last\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get your Colorado Hockey Merchandise Here<br \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Players To Watch:<\/p>\n<p>St. Louis Blues<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/player-profile-brayden-schenn\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brayden Schenn<\/a> has scored in two straight games, opening the scoring in both. He now has eight goals on the season and 16 points in 40 games.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado Avalanche<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/tag\/brock-nelson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brock Nelson<\/a> recorded two points in Colorado\u2019s last win (one goal, one assist). He has 15 goals and 28 points in 38 games this season.<\/p>\n<p>Injury Report:<\/p>\n<p>St. Louis Blues<\/p>\n<p>C <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/tag\/pius-suter\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pius Suter<\/a> \u2013 OUT<br \/>C <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/tag\/dylan-holloway\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dylan Holloway<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR<br \/>LW\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/tag\/nick-bjugstad\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Bjugstad<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR<\/p>\n<p>Colorado Avalanche<\/p>\n<p>RW <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/tag\/logan-oconnor-3\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Logan O\u2019Connor<\/a> \u2013 IR<\/p>\n<p>Next Game:<\/p>\n<p>Colorado Avalanche\u00a0\u2013 January 3 at Carolina Hurricanes<br \/>St. Louis Blues\u00a0\u2013 January 3 vs. Montreal Canadiens<\/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\/jmichel\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/329cd32b1d6458fb57f9744cb31c74babecf72bf0ba6ea18c123c7af60b4f841\"  class=\"avatar avatar-75 photo\" height=\"75\" width=\"75\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/author\/jmichel\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joshua Michel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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: Dilip Vishwanat-GettyImages St. Louis Blues (15-17-8) at Colorado Avalanche (29-2-7)Date: Wednesday, December 31Time: 9:00 pm ESTHow To&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5120],"tags":[71,1287,1034,5,49445,49446,36147,4,19906,534,84,5285,5284],"class_list":["post-384049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-louis-blues","tag-blues","tag-brayden-schenn","tag-brock-nelson","tag-hockey","tag-inury-report","tag-line-projection","tag-news-notes","tag-nhl","tag-projected-lines","tag-st-louis","tag-st-louis-blues","tag-stlouis","tag-stlouisblues"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115817597246868436","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384049","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=384049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}