{"id":390133,"date":"2026-01-04T11:50:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T11:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/390133\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T11:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T11:50:12","slug":"nhl-game-preview-vegas-golden-knights-at-chicago-blackhawks-with-line-combinations-1-4-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/390133\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Game Preview: Vegas Golden Knights at Chicago Blackhawks with Line Combinations 1\/4\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Golden-Knights-vs.-Blackhawks.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>AP Photo\/Ian Maule<\/p>\n<p>Vegas Golden Knights (17-11-11) at Chicago Blackhawks (16-18-7, 39 pts)<\/p>\n<p>Venue: United Center<br \/>Date: Sunday, January 4<br \/>Time: 7:00 pm EST<br \/>How To Watch:\u00a0ESPN+\/SCRIPPS\/CHSN<br \/>Radio:\u00a01290 AM KPAY\/WGN 720<\/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>Vegas Golden Knights News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Golden Knights suffered a 4-3 loss to the Blues on Friday night. It was their fourth straight loss, in which they\u2019re averaging three goals per game while allowing 4.8 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago Blackhawks News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Blackhaws picked up their second straight win on Saturday with a 3-2 shootout win over the Capitals. They\u2019re on a three-game point streak, averaging three goals per game while allowing 2.7 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p>Vegas Golden Knights Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p>Barbashev-Eichel-Bowman<br \/>Howden-Marner-Stone <br \/>Smith-Hertl-Dorofeyev<br \/>Saad-Sissons-Kolesar<\/p>\n<p>McNabb-Whitecloud<br \/>Lauzon- Korczak<br \/>Megna-Hutton<\/p>\n<p>Hart<br \/>Schmid<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/search?q=Vegas&amp;options%5Bprefix%5D=last\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get your Vegas Hockey Merchandise Here<\/a><\/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>Players To Watch:<\/p>\n<p>Vegas Golden Knights<\/p>\n<p>Ivan Barbashev scored a goal and added an assist in the Golden Knights\u2019 4-3 shootout win over the Blackhawks back in December.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago Blackhawks<\/p>\n<p>Tyler Bertuzzi had a goal and an assist in the Blackhawks\u2019 shootout loss to the Golden Knights back on December 2nd.<\/p>\n<p>Injury Report:<\/p>\n<p>Vegas Golden Knights<\/p>\n<p>D Alex Pietrangelo \u2013 IR<br \/>G Adin Hill \u2013 IR<br \/>F William Karlsson \u2013 IR<br \/>D Shea Theodore \u2013 DTD<\/p>\n<p>Chicago Blackhawks<\/p>\n<p>F\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/tag\/frank-nazar\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frank Nazar<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Out<br \/>F\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/tag\/connor-bedard\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Connor Bedard<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AP Photo\/Ian Maule Vegas Golden Knights (17-11-11) at Chicago Blackhawks (16-18-7, 39 pts) Venue: United CenterDate: Sunday, January&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5115],"tags":[1042,2832,521,1843,37,96,5263,508,800,5,4,5573,2219,9,9793,39,1599],"class_list":["post-390133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-blackhawks","tag-adin-hill","tag-alex-pietrangelo","tag-blackhawks","tag-central-division","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-blackhawks","tag-chicagoblackhawks","tag-connor-bedard","tag-frank-nazar","tag-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-game-preview","tag-pacific-division","tag-shea-theodore","tag-tyler-bertuzzi","tag-vegas-golden-knights","tag-william-karlsson"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115836684054122589","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390133","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=390133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}