{"id":421515,"date":"2026-01-22T11:09:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T11:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/421515\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T11:09:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T11:09:14","slug":"nhl-game-preview-dallas-stars-at-columbus-blue-jackets-with-line-combinations-1-22-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/421515\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Game Preview: Dallas Stars at Columbus Blue Jackets with Line Combinations 1\/22\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Photo by: Julio Cortez-AP)<\/p>\n

Dallas Stars (28-13-9, 65 pts) at Columbus Blue Jackets (22-12-7, 51 pts)<\/p>\n

Venue: Nationwide Arena
Date: Thursday, January 22
Time: 7:00 pm EST
How To Watch:\u00a0ESPN+,Victory+ Sports Network, FDSNOH
Radio:\u00a0The Ticket 96.7\/1310-AM(KTCK) The Fan, 97.1 The Fan, 93.3 The Bus<\/p>\n

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Dallas Stars News & Notes:<\/p>\n

The Stars beat the Bruins Tuesday night in Dallas, 6-2. In the past five games, the Stars have a 2-3-0 record. During this stretch, they\u2019re averaging two goals per game while allowing 2.4 goals per game<\/p>\n

Columbus Blue Jackets News & Notes:<\/p>\n

Columbus had its four-game winning streak snapped Tuesday night when they lost 4-1 against the Senators. They\u2019re 4-1-0 in their last five games, averaging 3.4 goals per game while allowing 2.6 goals per game.<\/p>\n

Dallas Stars Projected Lines:<\/p>\n

Robertson-Hintz-Bourque
Hryckowian-Johnston-Rantanen
Steel-Duchene-Benn
Back-Faksa-Blackwell<\/p>\n

Lindell-Heiskanen
Harley-Lundkvist
Lyubushkin-Petrovic<\/p>\n

Oettinger
DeSmith<\/p>\n

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Columbus Blue Jackets Projected Lines:<\/p>\n

Sillinger-Fantilli-Marchenko
Jenner-Monahan-Johnson
Voronkov-Coyle-Olivier
Heinen-Gaunce-Aston-Reese<\/p>\n

Werenski-Severson
Provorov-Gudbranson
Christiansen-Zamula<\/p>\n

Greaves
Merzlikins<\/p>\n

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Players To Watch:<\/p>\n

Dallas Stars<\/p>\n

Defenseman Miro Heiskanen<\/a> was tied for the team lead in shots in the 5-1 loss to the Blue Jackets back on October 21st. In the past five games, he has three points, all via assists, in the game Tuesday night against the Boston Bruins.<\/p>\n

Columbus Blue Jackets<\/p>\n

Kent Johnson<\/a> had a goal and an assist in the 5-1 win over the Stars in their first meeting back on October 21st. In his past five games, Johnson has three points for the Blue Jackets with one goal and two assists.<\/p>\n

Injury Report:<\/p>\n

Dallas Stars<\/p>\n

D\u00a0Lian Bichsel<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR
F\u00a0Tyler Seguin<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0IR
F Mikko Rantanen<\/a> -DTD<\/p>\n

Columbus Blue Jackets<\/p>\n

F Isac Lundestrom<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 DTD
D Denton Mateychuk<\/a> \u2013 DTD
D- Brendan Smith<\/a> \u2013 IR
F-Miles Wood<\/a> \u2013 IR
F Mason Marchment<\/a> \u2013 IR
D Dante Fabbro \u2013 DTD
G- Elvis Merzlikins \u2013 DTD<\/p>\n

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Father of 3, Bruins, Red Sox, Cubs, Liverpool, Syracuse football and Basketball Fan. Love Fantasy Football, Baseball and Hockey. If I am not at work, I either at an ice rink, Ball field or spending quality time with my family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Photo by: Julio Cortez-AP) Dallas Stars (28-13-9, 65 pts) at Columbus Blue Jackets (22-12-7, 51 pts) Venue: Nationwide…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5117],"tags":[10786,230,196,147,5278,7405,692,7819,5,4529,1943,7080,862,270,4997,423,4,5573,197,2381],"class_list":["post-421515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas-stars","tag-brendan-smith","tag-columbus-blue-jackets","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-stars","tag-dallasstars","tag-dante-fabbro","tag-denton-mateychuk","tag-elvis-merzlikins","tag-hockey","tag-isac-lundestrom","tag-kent-johnson","tag-lian-bichsel","tag-mason-marchment","tag-mikko-rantanen","tag-miles-wood","tag-miro-heiskanen","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-game-preview","tag-stars","tag-tyler-seguin"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115938444806777179","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421515","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=421515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}