{"id":403339,"date":"2026-01-12T12:21:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T12:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/403339\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T12:21:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T12:21:13","slug":"nhl-game-preview-vancouver-canucks-at-montreal-canadiens-with-line-combinations-1-12-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/403339\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Game Preview: Vancouver Canucks at Montreal Canadiens with Line Combinations 1\/12\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Untitled-design-34.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"NHL Game Preview: Vancouver Canucks at Montreal Canadiens with Line Combinations 1\/12\/2026\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Darryl Dyck\/The Canadian Press via AP<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver Canucks (16-23-5, 37 pts)\u00a0at Montreal Canadiens (25-14-6, 56 pts)<\/p>\n<p>Venue: Bell Centre<br \/>Date: Monday, January 12<br \/>Time: 7:30 pm EST<br \/>How To Watch:\u00a0ESPN+\/PRIME\/RDS<br \/>Radio:\u00a0Sportsnet 650 AM\/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>Vancouver Canucks News and Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Canucks\u00a0dropped their sixth straight on Saturday in a 5-0 loss to the Maple Leafs. During their skid, they\u2019re averaging two goals per game while allowing 4.7 goals per game. <\/p>\n<p>Montreal Canadiens News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Canadiens\u00a0had their three-game win streak snapped on Saturday in a 4-0 loss to the Red Wings. They\u2019re 3-2-0 in their last five games, averaging 2.8 goals per game while allowing 2.4 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver Canucks Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p>DeBrusk-E.Pettersson-Karlsson<br \/>Ohgren-Sasson-Boeser<br \/>O\u2019Connor-Kampf-Sherwood<br \/>Kane-Raty-Hoglander<\/p>\n<p>M. Pettersson-Hronek<br \/>Buium-Myers<br \/>Joseph-Willander<\/p>\n<p>Lankinen<br \/>Tolopilo <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/collections\/vancouver-hockey?_pos=1&amp;_psq=vancouver&amp;_ss=e&amp;_v=1.0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get your Vancouver 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 \/>Guhle-Xhekaj<\/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>Vancouver Canucks<\/p>\n<p>Elias Pettersson contributed on all three Vancouver goals in their loss to the Canadians back in October. Pettersson had a goal and two assists.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal Canadiens<\/p>\n<p>Ivan Demidov had a goal and two assists in the Canadiens 4-3 winover the Canucks back on October 25th.<\/p>\n<p>Injury Report:<\/p>\n<p>Vancouver Canucks<\/p>\n<p>F Filip Chytil \u2013 IR<br \/>F Teddy Blueger \u2013 IR<br \/>D Derek Forbort \u2013 LTIR<br \/>F Conor Garland \u2013 Out<br \/>F Marco Rossi \u2013 DTD<br \/>G Thatcher Demko \u2013 IR<\/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 \/>F Patrik Laine \u2013 IR<br \/>F Alex Newhook \u2013 IR<br \/>D David Reinbacher \u2013 Out<br \/>F Josh Anderson \u2013 DTD<br \/>F Kirby Dach \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":"Darryl Dyck\/The Canadian Press via AP Vancouver Canucks (16-23-5, 37 pts)\u00a0at Montreal Canadiens (25-14-6, 56 pts) Venue: Bell&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[633,2216,1613,3566,8832,2318,5561,5,638,639,783,4687,1486,21,4,5573,2219,640,10316,6377,27],"class_list":["post-403339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-alex-newhook","tag-atlantic-division","tag-conor-garland","tag-david-reinbacher","tag-derek-forbort","tag-elias-pettersson","tag-filip-chytil","tag-hockey","tag-ivan-demidov","tag-jake-evans","tag-josh-anderson","tag-kirby-dach","tag-marco-rossi","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-game-preview","tag-pacific-division","tag-patrik-laine","tag-teddy-blueger","tag-thatcher-demko","tag-vancouver-canucks"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115882104240155114","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403339","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=403339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403339\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}