{"id":423635,"date":"2026-01-23T13:44:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T13:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/423635\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T13:44:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T13:44:20","slug":"nhl-game-preview-tampa-bay-lightning-at-chicago-blackhawks-with-line-combinations-1-23-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/423635\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Game Preview: Tampa Bay Lightning at Chicago Blackhawks with Line Combinations 1\/23\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\tNHL Game Preview: Tampa Bay Lightning at Chicago Blackhawks with Line Combinations 1\/23\/2026 | Inside The Rink<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"skip-link screen-reader-text\" href=\"#content\">Skip to content<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/\" class=\"custom-logo-link\" rel=\"home nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"90\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764203590_941_Clean-Logo-1.png\" class=\"custom-logo\" alt=\"Inside The Rink Logo\" decoding=\"async\"  \/><\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/boxscorejunkie.com\/nhl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769175854_436_cropped-Life-Insurance.png .webp\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/\" rel=\"home nofollow noopener\" itemprop=\"item\" target=\"_blank\">Home<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/category\/nhl\/\" itemprop=\"item\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NHL<\/a>NHL Game Preview: Tampa Bay Lightning at Chicago Blackhawks with Line Combinations 1\/23\/2026<\/p>\n<p>          <img width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Untitled-design-2-19.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>AP Photo\/Chris O&#8217;Meara<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay Lightning (31-13-4, 66 pts) at Chicago Blackhawks (21-22-7, 49 pts)<\/p>\n<p>Venue: United Center<br \/>Date: Friday, January 23<br \/>Time: 8:00 pm EST<br \/>How To Watch: ESPN<br \/>Radio: 102.5 FM The Bone\/720 WGN<\/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>Tampa Bay Lightning News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Lightning\u00a0picked up their second straight win on Tuesday with a 4-1 victory over the Sharks. They\u2019ve extended their point streak to 14 games, averaging 4.5 goals per game while allowing 2.2 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago Blackhawks News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Blackhawks picked up a 4-3 shootout win over the Hurricanes last night. They\u2019re 2-3-0 in their last five games, averaging two goals per game while allowing three goals per game.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay Lightning Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p>Hagel-Cirelli-Kucherov<br \/>Goncalves-James-Guentzel<br \/>Girgensons-Gourde-Holmberg<br \/>Bjorkstrand-Paul-Finley<\/p>\n<p>Moser-Raddysh<br \/>D\u2019astous-Cernak<br \/>Carlile-Crozier<\/p>\n<p>Vasilevskiy<br \/>Johansson<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/search?q=Tampa+Bay&amp;options%5Bprefix%5D=last\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get your Tampa Bay Hockey Merchandise Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chicago Blackhawks Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p>Greene-Bedard-Burakovsky<br \/>Bertuzzi-Nazar-Mikheyev<br \/>Donato-Moore-Lardis<br \/>Dach-Foligno-Slaggert<\/p>\n<p>Vlasic-Crevier<br \/>Kaiser-Levshunov<br \/>Grzelcyk-Murphy<\/p>\n<p>Soderblom<br \/>Knight<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/search?q=Chicago&amp;options%5Bprefix%5D=last\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get your Chicago Hockey Merchandise Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Players To Watch:<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay Lightning<\/p>\n<p>Jake Guentzel scored one of the two Tampa Bay goals in their loss to Chicago back in October.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago Blackhawks<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Donato had two goals in the Blackhawks 3-2 win over the Lightning back on October 23rd.<\/p>\n<p>Injury Report:<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay Lightning<\/p>\n<p>D\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/player-profile-victor-hedman\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Victor Hedman<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR<br \/>RW\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/tag\/scott-sabourin\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Sabourin<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR<br \/>D\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/tag\/ryan-mcdonagh\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan McDonagh<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR<br \/>C\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/tag\/brayden-point\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brayden Point<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR<br \/>D Emil Lilleberg \u2013 IR<\/p>\n<p>Chicago Blackhawks<\/p>\n<p>F\u00a0Jason Dickinson\u00a0\u2013 DTD<br \/>F <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/tag\/teuvo-teravainen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Teuvo Teravainen<\/a> \u2013 Out<\/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<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/author\/clavallee\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769175857_564_276326315b493f582c4d87a8721917f57a6f9df6b8a3bc8ca3c490d0be2e9c6e.png\"  class=\"avatar avatar-75 photo\" height=\"75\" width=\"75\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/nhl-game-preview-st-louis-blues-at-dallas-stars-with-line-combinations-1-23-2026\/\" rel=\"bookmark nofollow noopener\" class=\"featured-image\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n          <img width=\"300\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Untitled-design-3-6-300x150.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>        <\/a>            <\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/nhl-game-preview-st-louis-blues-at-dallas-stars-with-line-combinations-1-23-2026\/\" rel=\"bookmark nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NHL Game Preview: St. Louis Blues at Dallas Stars with Line Combinations 1\/23\/2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>St. Louis Blues (19-23-8, 46 pts) at Dallas Stars (28-14-9, 65 pts)Venue: American Airlines CenterDate: Friday, January 23Time: 8:00 pm ESTHow To Watch: ESPN+\/FDSNMW\/Victory+Radio: 101 ESPN\/96.7 FM The TicketPurchase tickets via Ticketmaster St. Louis Blues News &amp; Notes: The Blues suffered their second straight loss on Tuesday in a 3-1 defeat to the Jets. 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