{"id":388306,"date":"2026-01-03T11:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T11:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/388306\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T11:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T11:58:12","slug":"nhl-game-preview-colorado-avalanche-at-carolina-hurricanes-with-line-combinations-1-3-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/388306\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Game Preview: Colorado Avalanche at Carolina Hurricanes with Line Combinations 1\/3\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Avalanche-vs.-Hurricanes.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"NHL Game Preview: Colorado Avalanche at Carolina Hurricanes with Line Combinations 1\/3\/2026\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>AP Photo\/David Zalubowski<\/p>\n<p>Colorado Avalanche (30-2-7, 67 pts) at Carolina Hurricanes (24-13-3, 51 pts)<a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/author\/clavallee\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Venue: Lenovo Center<br \/>Date: Saturday, January 3<br \/>Time: 7:00 pm EST<br \/>How To Watch:\u00a0ESPN+\/ALT\/FDSNSO<br \/>Radio:\u00a0560 AM WQAM\/102.5 The Game<\/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>Colorado Avalanche News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Avalanche\u00a0won their ninth straight on Wednesday with a 6-1 win over the Blues. They\u2019re on a 12-game point streak, averaging 4.2 goals per game while allowing 2.2 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p>Carolina Hurricanes News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Hurricanes dropped their second straight on Thursday with a 7-5 loss to the Canadiens. They\u2019re 2-3-0 in their last five games, averaging 3.2 goals per game while allowing 4.2 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado Avalanche Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p>Landeskog-MacKinnon-Necas<br \/>Lehkonen-Nelson-Nichushkin<br \/>Colton-Drury-Olofsson<br \/>Bardakov-Kelly-Brindley<\/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>Carolina Hurricanes Projected Lines<\/p>\n<p>Ehlers-Aho-Svechnikov <br \/>Robinson-Stankoven-Blake<br \/>Carrier-Staal-Martinook<br \/>Hall-Jankowski-Kotkaniemi<\/p>\n<p>Nikishin-Walker<br \/>Gostisbehere-Chatfield<br \/>Miller-Nystrom<\/p>\n<p>Bussi<br \/>Andersen<\/p>\n<p>Buy Carolina Hockey Merchandise Below!<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/collections\/toronto-hockey?_pos=1&amp;_psq=tor&amp;_ss=e&amp;_v=1.0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/collections\/carolina-hockey?_pos=1&amp;_psq=carolina&amp;_ss=e&amp;_v=1.0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carolina Hockey \u2013 Inside The Rink<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Players To Watch:<\/p>\n<p>Colorado Avalanche <\/p>\n<p>Valeri Nichushkin scored two of Colorado\u2019s four goals in their loss to Carolina back in October.<\/p>\n<p>Carolina Hurricanes<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-montreal-canadiens\">Logan Stankoven scored one of Carolina\u2019s four regulation goals in their 5-4 win over the Avalanche back on October 23rd. <\/p>\n<p>Injury Report:<\/p>\n<p>Colorado Avalanche<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-montreal-canadiens\">F\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/tag\/logan-oconnor-3\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Logan O\u2019Connor<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR<br \/>F Joel Kiviranta \u2013 DTD<\/p>\n<p>Carolina Hurricanes<\/p>\n<p>D Charles-Alexis Legault \u2013 IR<br \/>F Seth Jarvis \u2013 IR<br \/>D Jaccob Slavin \u2013 Out<br \/>D Shayne Gostisbehere \u2013 Out<br \/>G Pyotr Kochetkov \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/pyotr-kochetkov-probably-done-for-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">IR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next Up:<\/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\/David Zalubowski Colorado Avalanche (30-2-7, 67 pts) at Carolina Hurricanes (24-13-3, 51 pts) Venue: Lenovo CenterDate: Saturday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5116],"tags":[193,29,1843,34759,192,144,5277,5,1238,1036,1038,520,2218,4,5573,1267,1177,2823,3922],"class_list":{"0":"post-388306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-colorado-avalanche","8":"tag-avalanche","9":"tag-carolina-hurricanes","10":"tag-central-division","11":"tag-charles-alexis-legault","12":"tag-colorado","13":"tag-colorado-avalanche","14":"tag-coloradoavalanche","15":"tag-hockey","16":"tag-jaccob-slavin","17":"tag-joel-kiviranta","18":"tag-logan-oconnor","19":"tag-logan-stankoven","20":"tag-metropolitan-division","21":"tag-nhl","22":"tag-nhl-game-preview","23":"tag-pyotr-kochetkov","24":"tag-seth-jarvis","25":"tag-shayne-gostisbehere","26":"tag-valeri-nichushkin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115831053633206045","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388306","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=388306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}