{"id":397661,"date":"2026-01-08T14:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T14:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/397661\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T14:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T14:44:13","slug":"nhl-game-preview-edmonton-oilers-at-winnipeg-jets-with-line-combinations-01-08-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/397661\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Game Preview: Edmonton Oilers at Winnipeg Jets with Line Combinations 01\/08\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Edmonton Oilers (21-16-6, 48 pts) vs Winnipeg Jets (15-21-5, 35 pts)
Venue: Canada Life Centre
Date: Thursday, January 8th
Time: 8:00 pm ET \/ 7:00 pm CT \/ 6:00 pm MT<\/p>\n

TV: \/ TSN3 \/ Sportsnet
Radio:
Winnipeg Jets \u2013 CJKR-FM 97.5
Edmonton Oilers \u2013 CHED 880 AM<\/p>\n

Edmonton Oilers News & Notes:<\/p>\n

The Oilers are second in the Pacific Division with 48 points. This is just their third game of the new year, going 1-1 in January.<\/p>\n

Winnipeg Jets News & Notes:<\/p>\n

The Jets are last in the entire NHL with 35 points and playing their second game of a five game homestand. They\u2019ve lost 13 of their last 15, including 10 in a row.<\/p>\n

Winnipeg Jets Projected Lines:<\/p>\n

Connor\/Scheifele\/Iafallo
Perfetti\/Toews\/Vilardi
Barron\/Lowry\/Neiderreiter
Pearson\/Namestnikov\/Nyquist<\/p>\n

Morrissey\/DeMelo
Samberg\/Pionk
Stanley\/Schenn<\/p>\n

Hellebuyck<\/p>\n

Edmonton Oilers Projected Lines:<\/p>\n

Nugent-Hopkins\/McDavid\/Hyman
Podkolzin\/Draisaitl\/Kapanen
Howard\/Roslovic\/Savoie
Janmark\/Lazar\/Hutson<\/p>\n

Ekholm\/Bouchard
Nurse\/Regula
Stastney\/Emberson<\/p>\n

Ingram<\/p>\n

Players To Watch:<\/p>\n

Winnipeg Jets<\/p>\n

Forward Kyle Connor<\/a> leads the Jets with 49 points through 41 games this season, has 9 through his last 10.<\/p>\n

Edmonton Oilers<\/p>\n

Forward Ryan Nugent-Hopkins<\/a> recorded his 500th NHL assist on Tuesday night. He has 34 points through 34 games this season and 39 through 40 career games vs the Jets.<\/p>\n

Injury Report:<\/p>\n

Winnipeg Jets<\/p>\n

D \/ Haydn Fleury<\/a> \/ OUT<\/p>\n

Edmonton Oilers<\/p>\n

D \/ Jake Walman<\/a> \/ DTD
G \/ Tristan Jarry<\/a> \/ IR
C \/ Adam Henrique<\/a> \/ IR<\/p>\n

Next Game:<\/p>\n

Winnipeg Jets \u2013 January 9 vs Los Angeles Kings
Edmonton Oilers \u2013 January 10 at Los Angeles Kings<\/p>\n

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Stephen Vani<\/a><\/p>\n

Oilers fan in Toronto. Staying up past my bedtime for Western games since the mid 2000s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edmonton Oilers (21-16-6, 48 pts) vs Winnipeg Jets (15-21-5, 35 pts)Venue: Canada Life CentreDate: Thursday, January 8thTime: 8:00…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5125],"tags":[155,198,146,5300,5,1290,4,5573,24,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-397661","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edmonton-oilers","8":"tag-connor-mcdavid","9":"tag-edmonton","10":"tag-edmonton-oilers","11":"tag-edmontonoilers","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-kyle-connor","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-nhl-game-preview","16":"tag-oilers","17":"tag-ryan-nugent-hopkins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115860017676609285","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397661","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=397661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}