{"id":395398,"date":"2026-01-07T11:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T11:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/395398\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T11:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T11:24:12","slug":"nhl-game-preview-st-louis-blues-at-chicago-blackhawks-with-line-combinations-1-7-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/395398\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Game Preview: St. Louis Blues at Chicago Blackhawks with Line Combinations 1\/7\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Untitled-design-2-3.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"NHL Game Preview: St. Louis Blues at Chicago Blackhawks with Line Combinations 1\/7\/2026\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>AP Photo\/Jeff Roberson<\/p>\n<p>St. Louis Blues (17-18-8, 42 pts) at Chicago Blackhawks (17-18-7, 41 pts) <\/p>\n<p>Venue: United Center<br \/>Date: Wednesday, January 7<br \/>Time: 9:30 pm EST<br \/>TV: TNT\/truTV\/HBO Max<br \/>Radio:\u00a0101 ESPN\/WGN Radio 720 AM<\/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>St. Louis Blues News &amp; Notes:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Blues picked up their second straight win with a 2-0 win over the Canadiens on Saturday. They\u2019re 3-2-0 in their last five games, averaging 2.4 goals per game while allowing three goals per game.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago Blackhawks News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Blackhawks\u00a0won their third straight win a 3-2 win over the Golden Knights on Sunday. They\u2019ve recorded points in five of their last six games, averaging 3.2 goals per game while allowing 3.3 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p>St. Louis Blues Projected Lines:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Neighbours-Thomas-Kyrou<br \/>Buchnevich-Schenn-Snuggerud<br \/>Stenberg-Dvorsky-Berggren<br \/>Toropchenko-Fabbri-Joseph <\/p>\n<p>Broberg-Parayko<br \/>Tucker-Faulk<br \/>Fowler-Mailloux<\/p>\n<p>Binnington<br \/>Hofer<\/p>\n<p>Get St. Louis Hockey Merchandise Here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/collections\/st-louis-hockey?_pos=1&amp;_psq=st+louis&amp;_ss=e&amp;_v=1.0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. Louis Hockey<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chicago Blackhawks Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p>Bertuzzi-Greene-Burakovsky<br \/>Donato-Dickinson-Mikheyev<br \/>Teravainen-Moore-Lardis<br \/>Dach-Foligno-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\/collections\/chicago-hockey?_pos=1&amp;_psq=chicago&amp;_ss=e&amp;_v=1.0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get Your Chicago Hockey Merchandise Here<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/author\/clavallee\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>Players To Watch:<\/p>\n<p>St. Louis Blues\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jake Neighbours has a point in each game against the Blackhawks this season, recording an assist in one game and a goal and an assist in the other.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago Blackhawks<\/p>\n<p>Tyler Bertuzzi had a goal and an assist in one of the two games against the Blues this season.<\/p>\n<p>Injury Report:<\/p>\n<p>St. Louis Blues<\/p>\n<p>D\u00a0Torey Krug\u00a0\u2013 IR<br \/>F Dylan Hollway \u2013 IR<br \/>F Nathan Walker \u2013 IR<br \/>F Nick Bjugstad \u2013 IR<br \/>F Pius Suter \u2013 Out<\/p>\n<p>Chicago Blackhawks<\/p>\n<p>F Connor Bedard\u00a0\u2013 IR<br \/>F Frank Nazar\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\/Jeff Roberson St. Louis Blues (17-18-8, 42 pts) at Chicago Blackhawks (17-18-7, 41 pts) Venue: United CenterDate:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5120],"tags":[71,1843,96,508,1296,800,5,1478,1736,4,5573,4463,1807,534,84,5285,5284,5083,9793],"class_list":["post-395398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-louis-blues","tag-blues","tag-central-division","tag-chicago-blackhawks","tag-connor-bedard","tag-dylan-holloway","tag-frank-nazar","tag-hockey","tag-jake-neighbours","tag-nathan-walker","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-game-preview","tag-nick-bjugstad","tag-pius-suter","tag-st-louis","tag-st-louis-blues","tag-stlouis","tag-stlouisblues","tag-torey-krug","tag-tyler-bertuzzi"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115853568710079390","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395398","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=395398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}