{"id":395427,"date":"2026-01-07T11:43:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T11:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/395427\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T11:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T11:43:11","slug":"nhl-game-preview-calgary-flames-at-montreal-canadiens-with-line-combinations-1-7-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/395427\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Game Preview: Calgary Flames at Montreal Canadiens 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-1-4.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"NHL Game Preview: Calgary Flames at Montreal Canadiens with Line Combinations 1\/7\/2026\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Jeff McIntosh\/The Canadian Press via AP<\/p>\n<p>Calgary Flames (18-20-4, 40 pts) at Montreal Canadiens (23-13-6, 52 pts)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Venue: Bell Centre<br \/>Date: Wednesday, January 7<br \/>Time: 9:30 pm EST<br \/>How To Watch:\u00a0ESPN+\/SN\/RDS<br \/>Radio: 960 The Fan\/TSN 690<\/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>Calgary Flames News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">The Flames dropped their second straight on Monday in a 5-1 loss to the Kraken. They\u2019re 3-2-0 in their last five games, averaging 2.8 goals per game while allowing 2.6 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal Canadiens News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Canadiens picked up a 4-3 overtime win over the Stars on Sunday. They\u2019ve now recorded points in eight of their last nine games, averaging 3.9 goals per game while allowing 2.7 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p>Calgary Flames Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p>Zary-Kadri-Farabee<br \/>Huberdeau-Frost-Sharangovich <br \/>Coleman-Backlund-Coronato<br \/>Lomberg-Kirkland-Klapka<\/p>\n<p>Bahl-Andersson<br \/>Kuznetsov-Weegar<br \/>Hanley-Pachal<\/p>\n<p>Wolf<br \/>Say<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/collections\/calgary-hockey?_pos=1&amp;_psq=calgary&amp;_ss=e&amp;_v=1.0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get Calgary Hockey Merchandise Here:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Montreal Canadiens Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p>Caufield-Suzuki-Texier<br \/>Slafkovsky-Kapanen-Demidov<br \/>Bolduc-Danault-Gallagher<br \/>Blais-Veleno-Beck<\/p>\n<p>Matheson-Dobson<br \/>Hutson-Carrier<br \/>Xhekaj-Struble<\/p>\n<p>Montembeault<br \/>Fowler<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/search?q=Montreal&amp;options%5Bprefix%5D=last\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get your Montreal Hockey Merchandise Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Players To Watch:<\/p>\n<p>Calgary Flames<\/p>\n<p>Adam Klapka scored the Flames\u2019 lone goal in the first meeting against Montreal back in October.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal Canadiens<\/p>\n<p>Zachary Bolduc scored a goal in Montreal\u2019s 2-1 win over the Flames back on October 22nd.<\/p>\n<p>Injury Report:<\/p>\n<p>Calgary Flames<\/p>\n<p>F\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/tag\/martin-pospisil\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Pospisil<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR<br \/>F\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/tag\/samuel-honzek\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Samuel Honzek<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR<br \/>D Jake Bean \u2013 IR<br \/>F John Beecher \u2013 DTD<br \/>G Devin Cooley \u2013 DTD<\/p>\n<p>Montreal Canadiens<\/p>\n<p>F\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/tag\/jake-evans\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Evans<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR<br \/>D Kaiden Guhle\u00a0\u2013 IR<br \/>F Kirby Dach \u2013 IR<br \/>F Patrik Laine \u2013 IR<br \/>D David Reinbacher \u2013 Out<br \/>F Alex Newhook \u2013 IR<br \/>F Josh Anderson \u2013 DTD<\/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":"Jeff McIntosh\/The Canadian Press via AP Calgary Flames (18-20-4, 40 pts) at Montreal Canadiens (23-13-6, 52 pts)\u00a0 Venue:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5103],"tags":[4508,2216,26,265,1843,3566,5,2757,639,7609,783,1748,4687,5843,264,21,5147,4,5573,640,8950,1484],"class_list":["post-395427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal-canadiens","tag-adam-klapka","tag-atlantic-division","tag-calgary-flames","tag-canadiens","tag-central-division","tag-david-reinbacher","tag-hockey","tag-jake-bean","tag-jake-evans","tag-john-beecher","tag-josh-anderson","tag-kaiden-guhle","tag-kirby-dach","tag-martin-pospisil","tag-montreal","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-montrealcanadiens","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-game-preview","tag-patrik-laine","tag-samuel-honzek","tag-zachary-bolduc"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115853643377988881","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395427","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=395427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}