{"id":413331,"date":"2026-01-17T22:42:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T22:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/413331\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T22:42:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T22:42:30","slug":"nhl-game-preview-nashville-predators-at-vegas-golden-knights-with-line-combinations-1-17-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/413331\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Game Preview: Nashville Predators at Vegas Golden Knights with Line Combinations 1\/17\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Untitled-design-1-26.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"NHL Game Preview: Nashville Predators at Vegas Golden Knights with Line Combinations 1\/17\/2026\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>AP Photo\/Mark Humphrey<\/p>\n<p>Nashville Predators (23-20-4, 50 pts) at Vegas Golden Knights (23-11-12, 56 pts) <\/p>\n<p>Venue: T-Mobile Arena<br \/>Date: Saturday, January 17<br \/>Time: 10:30 pm EST<br \/>How To Watch:\u00a0TNT\/truTV\/HBO Max<br \/>Radio:\u00a0102.5 The Game\/ESPN 710<\/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>Nashville Predators News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Predators\u00a0picked up their third straight win on Friday night with a 7-3 win over the Avalanche. They\u2019ve won four of their last five games, averaging 3.2 goals per game while allowing 2.4 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p>Vegas Golden Knights News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Golden Knights picked up their sixth straight win on Thursday with a 6-5 overtime win over the Maple Leafs. They enter tonight\u2019s game on a seven-game point streak, averaging 4.4 goals per game while allowing 2.9 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p>Nashville Predators Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-chicago-blackhawks-projected-lines\">Forsberg-O\u2019Reilly-Evangelista<br \/>Bunting-Haula-Stamkos<br \/>Jost-Svechkov-Wood<br \/>Schaefer-McCarron-Smith<\/p>\n<p>Josi-Perbix<br \/>Skjei-Blankenburg<br \/>Hague-Barron<\/p>\n<p>Annunen<br \/>Saros<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/collections\/nashville-hockey?_pos=1&amp;_psq=nashvi&amp;_ss=e&amp;_v=1.0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get your Nashville Hockey merchandise here:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vegas Golden Knights Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p>Barbashev-Eichel-Stone<br \/>Dorofeyev-Marner-Smith<br \/>Kolesar-Hertl-Bowman<br \/>Reinhardt-Laczynski-Holtz <\/p>\n<p>Lauzon-Theodore<br \/>Hanifin-Whitecloud<br \/>Hutton-Korczak<\/p>\n<p>Hill<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>Players To Watch:<\/p>\n<p>Nashville Predators<\/p>\n<p>Steven Stamkos scored his <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/steven-stamkos-scores-600th-career-nhl-goal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">600th goal<\/a> against the Golden Knights in the first meeting back in December.<\/p>\n<p>Vegas Golden Knights<\/p>\n<p>Mark Stone scored one of the two Vegas goals in their 4-2 loss to Nashville back on New Year\u2019s Eve.<\/p>\n<p>Injury Report:<\/p>\n<p>Nashville Predators<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-chicago-blackhawks-0\">F Jonathan Marchessault\u00a0\u2013 IR<br \/>F Zachary L\u2019Heureux\u00a0\u2013 Out<br \/>D Adam Wilsby\u00a0\u2013 DTD<br \/>D Ozzy Wiesblatt \u2013 IR<\/p>\n<p>Vegas Golden Knights<\/p>\n<p>D Alex Pietrangelo \u2013 IR<br \/>F William Karlsson \u2013 IR<br \/>F Brandon Saad \u2013 IR<br \/>D Brayden McNabb \u2013 Out<br \/>G Carter Hart \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\/Mark Humphrey Nashville Predators (23-20-4, 50 pts) at Vegas Golden Knights (23-11-12, 56 pts) Venue: T-Mobile ArenaDate:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5119],"tags":[19341,2832,1598,88,1843,5,781,1040,2409,231,5281,4,5573,8336,2219,2410,1489,39,1599,23483],"class_list":["post-413331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nashville-predators","tag-adam-wilsby","tag-alex-pietrangelo","tag-brayden-mcnabb","tag-carter-hart","tag-central-division","tag-hockey","tag-jonathan-marchessault","tag-mark-stone","tag-nashville","tag-nashville-predators","tag-nashvillepredators","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-game-preview","tag-ozzy-wiesblatt","tag-pacific-division","tag-predators","tag-steven-stamkos","tag-vegas-golden-knights","tag-william-karlsson","tag-zachary-lheureux"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115912857872406225","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413331","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=413331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}