{"id":386674,"date":"2026-01-02T15:06:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T15:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/386674\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T15:06:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T15:06:17","slug":"nhl-game-preview-vegas-golden-knights-at-st-louis-blues-with-line-combinations-1-2-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/386674\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Game Preview: Vegas Golden Knights at St. Louis Blues with Line Combinations 1\/2\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"NHL<\/p>\n

AP Photo-John Locher<\/p>\n

St. Louis Blues (15-18-8) at Vegas Golden Knights (17-10-11)
Venue: Enterprise Center
Date: Friday, January 2
Time: 3:00 pm EST
How To Watch:\u00a0SNW, SN1, SCRIPPS, FDSMW
Radio:\u00a01290 AM KPAY, 101 ESPN<\/p>\n

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Vegas Golden Knights News & Notes:<\/p>\n

The Golden Knights lost their third straight game on Wednesday, falling 4-2 to the Nashville Predators. They are 1-3-1 in their last five games, averaging 3.11 goals scored per game while allowing 2.78.<\/p>\n

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

The Blues lost their second straight game on Wednesday, getting routed by the Colorado Avalanche 6-1. They are 2-3-0 in their last five games, averaging 2.46 goals scored per game while allowing 3.44. Zach Dean has been cleared by the NHL\/NHLPA Player Assistance Program and has been assigned to the AHL\u2019s Springfield Thunderbirds.<\/p>\n

Vegas Golden Knights Projected Lines:<\/p>\n

Barbashev-Marner-Stone
Dorofeyev-Hertl-Holtz
Smith-Howden-Bowman
Saad-Sissons-Kolesar<\/p>\n

McNabb-Korczak
Hanifin-Hutton
Lauzon-Whitecloud<\/p>\n

Hart
Schmid<\/p>\n

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

Berggren-Thomas-Buchnevich
Neighbours-Schenn-Snuggerud
Stenberg-Dvorsky-Kyrou
Toropchenko-Sundqvist-Fabbri<\/p>\n

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

Hofer
Binnington<\/p>\n

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Players To Watch:<\/p>\n

Vegas Golden Knights<\/p>\n

Pavel Dorofeyev<\/a> recorded two assists in the loss to the Predators. He now has 15 goals and 28 points in 38 games.<\/p>\n

St. Louis Blues<\/p>\n

Dalibor Dvorsky<\/a> scored the lone goal in the loss to the Avalanche. He now has six goals and nine points in 31 games this season.<\/p>\n

Injury Report:<\/p>\n

Vegas Golden Knights<\/p>\n

C Jack Eichel<\/a> \u2013 DTD
D Brayden McNabb<\/a> \u2013 DTD<\/p>\n

St. Louis Blues<\/p>\n

C Pius Suter<\/a> \u2013 OUT<\/p>\n

Next Game:<\/p>\n

Vegas Golden Knights\u00a0\u2013 January 4 at Chicago Blackhawks
St. Louis Blues\u00a0\u00a0\u2013 January 3 vs. Montreal Canadiens<\/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":"AP Photo-John Locher St. Louis Blues (15-18-8) at Vegas Golden Knights (17-10-11)Venue: Enterprise CenterDate: Friday, January 2Time: 3:00…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":386675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5120],"tags":[71,1598,5983,5,5236,1041,37237,36147,4,2880,1807,19906,534,84,5285,5284],"class_list":["post-386674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-louis-blues","tag-blues","tag-brayden-mcnabb","tag-dalibor-dvorsky","tag-hockey","tag-injury-report","tag-jack-eichel","tag-line-projections","tag-news-notes","tag-nhl","tag-pavel-dorofeyev","tag-pius-suter","tag-projected-lines","tag-st-louis","tag-st-louis-blues","tag-stlouis","tag-stlouisblues"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115826130470637853","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386674","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=386674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/386675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}