{"id":417801,"date":"2026-01-20T12:25:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T12:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/417801\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T12:25:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T12:25:14","slug":"nhl-game-preview-minnesota-wild-at-montreal-canadiens-with-line-combinations-1-20-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/417801\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Game Preview: Minnesota Wild at Montreal Canadiens with Line Combinations 1\/20\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Untitled-design-77.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>AP Photo\/Matt Krohn<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota Wild (28-13-9, 65 pts) at Montreal Canadiens (27-15-7, 61 pts)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Venue: Bell Centre<br \/>Date: Tuesday, January 20<br \/>Time: 7:00 pm EST<br \/>How To Watch:\u00a0ESPN+\/FDSNSO\/FDSNWI\/TSN2\/RDS<br \/>Radio:\u00a0104.5 ESPN Radio\/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>Minnesota Wild News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Wild picked up their second straight win last night with a 6-3 victory over the Maple Leafs. They\u2019re 2-2-1 in their last five games, averaging 3.6 goals per game while allowing 4.4 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal Canadiens News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Canadiens snapped a two-game skid with a 6-5 overtime win over the Senators on Saturday. They\u2019re recorded points in six of their last eight games, averaging 3.9 goals per game while allowing 3.3 goals per game. <\/p>\n<p>Minnesota Wild Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p>Kaprizov-Hartman-Zuccarello<br \/>Trenin-Yurov-Tarasenko<br \/>Foligno-Haight-Hinostroza<br \/>Jones-Sturm-Pitlick<\/p>\n<p>Hughes-Faber<br \/>Middleton-Spurgeon<br \/>Hunt-Jiricek<\/p>\n<p>Wallstedt<br \/>Gustavsson<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/collections\/minnesota-hockey?_pos=1&amp;_psq=minnes&amp;_ss=e&amp;_v=1.0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get Minnesota Hockey Merchandise Here:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Montreal Canadiens Projected Lines<\/p>\n<p>Caufield-Suzuki-Texier<br \/>Slafkovsky-Kapanen-Demidov<br \/>Anderson-Danault-Gallagher<br \/>Bolduc-Evans-Veleno<\/p>\n<p>Matheson-Dobson<br \/>Hutson-Carrier<br \/>Guhle-Xhekaj<\/p>\n<p>Montembeault<br \/>Dobes<\/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>Minnesota Wild<\/p>\n<p>Kirill Kaprizov scored a goal and added an assist in one of the two games against the Canadiens.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal Canadiens<\/p>\n<p>Cole Caufield had four shots in two games against the Wild last season as Montreal was shut out in both meetings.<\/p>\n<p>Injury Report:<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota Wild<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">D Zach Bogosian \u2013 IR<br \/>D Jonas Brodin \u2013 IR<br \/>F Matt Boldy \u2013 IR<br \/>F Marcus Johansson \u2013 Out<br \/>F Joel Eriksson Ek \u2013 IR<\/p>\n<p>Montreal Canadiens<\/p>\n<p>F Patrik Laine \u2013 IR<br \/>F Alex Newhook \u2013 IR<br \/>D David Reinbacher \u2013 Out<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":"AP Photo\/Matt Krohn Minnesota Wild (28-13-9, 65 pts) at Montreal Canadiens (27-15-7, 61 pts)\u00a0 Venue: Bell CentreDate: Tuesday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5103],"tags":[633,2216,265,1843,971,3566,5,499,3647,4687,537,1118,799,38,264,21,5147,4,5573,640,3703],"class_list":["post-417801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal-canadiens","tag-alex-newhook","tag-atlantic-division","tag-canadiens","tag-central-division","tag-cole-caufield","tag-david-reinbacher","tag-hockey","tag-joel-eriksson-ek","tag-jonas-brodin","tag-kirby-dach","tag-kirill-kaprizov","tag-marcus-johansson","tag-matt-boldy","tag-minnesota-wild","tag-montreal","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-montrealcanadiens","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-game-preview","tag-patrik-laine","tag-zach-bogosian"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115927419456754645","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417801","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=417801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}