{"id":384783,"date":"2026-01-01T12:07:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T12:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/384783\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T12:07:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T12:07:18","slug":"nhl-game-preview-dallas-stars-at-chicago-blackhawks-with-line-combinations-1-1-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/384783\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Game Preview: Dallas Stars at Chicago Blackhawks with Line Combinations 1\/1\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Untitled-design-1-56.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"NHL Game Preview: Dallas Stars at Chicago Blackhawks with Line Combinations 1\/1\/2026\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>AP Photo\/LM Otero<\/p>\n<p>Dallas Stars (25-8-7, 57 pts) at Chicago Blackhawks (14-18-7, 35 pts)<\/p>\n<p>Venue: United Center<br \/>Date: Thursday, January 1<br \/>Time: 8:30 pm EST<br \/>How To Watch:\u00a0ESPN+\/Victory+\/CHSN<\/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>Dallas Stars News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Stars dropped their third straight last night as they lost to Buffalo 4-1. The loss snapped their six game point streak. They\u2019re 2-1-2 in their last five games, averaging four goals per game while allowing 3.2 goals per game. <\/p>\n<p>Chicago Blackhawks News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Blackhawks dropped their second straight on Tuesday in a 3-2 shootout loss to the Islanders. They\u2019re 1-3-1 in their last five games, averaging 2.8 goals per game while allowing 4.4 goals per game. <\/p>\n<p>Dallas Stars Projected Lines<\/p>\n<p>Robertson-Hintz-Bourque<br \/>Steel-Johnston-Rantanen<br \/>Hryckowian-Duchene-Benn<br \/>Back-Faksa-Blackwell<\/p>\n<p>Lindell-Heiskanen<br \/>Harley-Lundkvist<br \/>Petrovic-Lyubushkin<\/p>\n<p>Oettinger<br \/>DeSmith<\/p>\n<p>Buy Dallas Hockey Merchandise Below!<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/collections\/dallas-hockey?_pos=1&amp;_psq=dalls&amp;_ss=e&amp;_v=1.0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get Dallas Hockey Merchandise<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chicago Blackhawks Projected Lines<\/p>\n<p>Bertuzzi-Greene-Burakovsky<br \/>Teravainen-Moore-Lardis<br \/>Donato-Dickinson-Mikheyev<br \/>Foligno-Dach-Slaggert<\/p>\n<p>Vlasic-Crevier<br \/>Kaiser-Levshunov<br \/>Grzelcyk-Murphy<\/p>\n<p>Knight<br \/>Soderblom<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/search?q=Chicago&amp;options%5Bprefix%5D=last\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get your Chicago Hockey Merchandise Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Players to Watch:<\/p>\n<p>Dallas Stars<\/p>\n<p>Wyatt Johnston assisted on all three of the Stars goals in their loss to Chicago last weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago Blackhawks<\/p>\n<p>Tyler Bertuzzi scored two goals in the Blackhawks shootout win over the Stars last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Injury Report:<\/p>\n<p>Dallas Stars<\/p>\n<p>D Lian Bichsel\u00a0\u2013 IR<br \/>F\u00a0Tyler Seguin \u2013 IR<\/p>\n<p>Chicago Blackhawks<\/p>\n<p>F Frank Nazar \u2013 Out<br \/>F Connor Bedard \u2013 IR<\/p>\n<p>Next Game:<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AP Photo\/LM Otero Dallas Stars (25-8-7, 57 pts) at Chicago Blackhawks (14-18-7, 35 pts) Venue: United CenterDate: Thursday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5117],"tags":[1843,96,508,196,147,5278,800,5,7080,4,5573,197,9793,2381,1531],"class_list":["post-384783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas-stars","tag-central-division","tag-chicago-blackhawks","tag-connor-bedard","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-stars","tag-dallasstars","tag-frank-nazar","tag-hockey","tag-lian-bichsel","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-game-preview","tag-stars","tag-tyler-bertuzzi","tag-tyler-seguin","tag-wyatt-johnston"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115819763780904939","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384783","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=384783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}