{"id":388699,"date":"2026-01-03T17:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T17:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/388699\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T17:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T17:22:14","slug":"nhl-game-previews-chicago-blackhawks-at-washington-capitals-with-line-combinations-1-3-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/388699\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Game Previews: Chicago Blackhawks at Washington Capitals 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\/ITR-Heading-Photos-19.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"Tom Wilson Washington Capitals\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>(Photo by: ESPN)<\/p>\n<p>Chicago Blackhawks (15-18-7, 37 pts) at Washington Capitals (21-15-5, 47 pts)<\/p>\n<p>Venue: Capital One Arena<br \/>Date: Saturday, January 3<br \/>Time: 7:00 pm EST<br \/>How To Watch:\u00a0ESPN+, Chicago Sports Network, Monumental Sports Network<br \/>Radio:\u00a0WGN 720, 106.7 The Fan<\/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>Chicago Blackhawks News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Blackhaws beat the Dallas Stars in their last game 4-3 on Thursday. They\u2019re 2-2-1 in their last five games, averaging 2.8 goals per game while allowing 3.8 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p>Washington Capitals News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Capitals lost 3-2 in their last game on Thursday, 4-3 to the Senators. They\u2019re 2-3-0 in their last five games, averaging 3.8 goals per game while allowing 4.4 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago Blackhawks Projected Lines<\/p>\n<p>Bertuzzi-Greene-Burakovsky<br \/>Donato-Dickinson-Mikheyev<br \/>Teravainen-Moore-Lardis<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>Washington Capitals Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">Protas-Strome-Ovechkin<br \/>McMichael-Sourdif-Wilson<br \/>Beauvillier-Dowd-Leonard<br \/>Duhaime-Lapierre-Frank<\/p>\n<p>Sandin-Carlson<br \/>Chychrun-Roy<br \/>Fehervary-Van Riemsdyk<\/p>\n<p>Thompson<br \/>Lindgren<\/p>\n<p>Buy Washington Hockey Gear Below!<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/search?q=florida&amp;options%5Bprefix%5D=last\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/collections\/florida-hockey?_pos=1&amp;_psq=florida&amp;_ss=e&amp;_v=1.0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/collections\/washington-hockey?_pos=1&amp;_psq=was&amp;_ss=e&amp;_v=1.0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Hockey \u2013 Inside The Rink<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Players To Watch:<\/p>\n<p>Chicago Blackhawks<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/tag\/ilya-mikheyev\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ilya Mikheyev<\/a> had two goals in the Blackhawks 4-3 win over the Dallas Stars back on January 1st.<\/p>\n<p>Washington Capitals<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/tag\/tom-wilson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Wilson<\/a> had a goal and an assist in the Capitals loss to the Ottawa Senators back on January 1st.<\/p>\n<p>Injury Report:<\/p>\n<p>Chicago Blackhawks<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">F <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/tag\/frank-nazar\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frank Nazar<\/a> \u2013 Out<br \/>F <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/tag\/connor-bedard\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Connor Bedard<\/a> \u2013 IR<\/p>\n<p>Washington Capitals<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">F\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/tag\/pierre-luc-dubois-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pierre-Luc Dubois<\/a>\u00a0\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<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/author\/jcgifford18d2e1cafa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767460934_339_8db68b5dc1a6417474926df3f6d3c47ad5c5859e11a1a42050a5fdf654aba77b\"  class=\"avatar avatar-75 photo\" height=\"75\" width=\"75\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/author\/jcgifford18d2e1cafa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JC Giff<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Father of 3, Bruins, Red Sox, Cubs, Liverpool, Syracuse football and Basketball Fan. Love Fantasy Football, Baseball and Hockey. If I am not at work, I either at an ice rink, Ball field or spending quality time with my family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Photo by: ESPN) Chicago Blackhawks (15-18-7, 37 pts) at Washington Capitals (21-15-5, 47 pts) Venue: Capital One ArenaDate:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5115],"tags":[521,37,96,5263,508,800,5,8180,4,5573,4863,280,109],"class_list":{"0":"post-388699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-blackhawks","8":"tag-blackhawks","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-blackhawks","11":"tag-chicagoblackhawks","12":"tag-connor-bedard","13":"tag-frank-nazar","14":"tag-hockey","15":"tag-ilya-mikheyev","16":"tag-nhl","17":"tag-nhl-game-preview","18":"tag-pierre-luc-dubois","19":"tag-tom-wilson","20":"tag-washington-capitals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115832327767622526","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388699","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=388699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}