{"id":516647,"date":"2026-03-22T12:38:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T12:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/516647\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T12:38:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T12:38:16","slug":"nhl-game-preview-colorado-avalanche-at-washington-capitals-with-line-combinations-03-22-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/516647\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Game Preview: Colorado Avalanche at Washington Capitals with Line Combinations 03\/22\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Photo by: David Zalubowski-AP)<\/p>\n

Colorado Avalanche (45-13-10, 100 pts) at Washington Capitals (35-27-8, 78 pts)<\/p>\n

Venue: Capital One Arena
Date: Sunday, March 22
Time: 1230 pm EST
How To Watch:\u00a0NHL Network, Altitude Sports, Monumental Sports Network
Radio: Altitude Sports Radio 92.5 FM, 950 AM\u00a0\/106.7 The Fan<\/p>\n

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Colorado Avalanche News & Notes:<\/p>\n

The Avalanche beat the Blackhawks 4-1 in their last game on Friday night. In their last five games, Colorado has a 2-2-1 record, scoring 2.6 goals per game while allowing 2.8. Colorado won the only other meeting between these two teams, 5-2, back on January 19th. Colorado has the most points in the NHL and has clinched a playoff spot as they sit atop the Central Division with a game in hand and three points over the Dallas Stars entering play Sunday.<\/p>\n

Washington Capitals News & Notes:<\/p>\n

The Capitals beat the Devils 2-1 on Friday night. In their previous five games, the Capitals have a 3-1-1 record, scoring 2.2 goals per game while conceding two. The Capitals are six points back from the last Wild Card spot in the Eastern Conference, with the Flyers, Senators, and Islanders ahead of them battling for the same spot.<\/p>\n

Colorado Avalanche Projected Lines<\/p>\n

Nichushkin-MacKinnon-Necas
Kadri-Nelson-Roy
Kelly-Drury-Kiviranta
Bardakov-Ivan-Brindley<\/p>\n

Kulak-Makar
Toews-Malinski
Manson-Burns<\/p>\n

Blackwood
Wedgewood<\/p>\n

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Washington Capitals Projected Lines:<\/p>\n

Ovechkin-Strome-Beauvillier
Protas-Dubois-Wilson
McMichael-Sourdif-Leonard
Duhaime-Lapierre-Frank<\/p>\n

Chychrun-Van Riemsdyk
Hutson-Roy
Fehervary-Sandin<\/p>\n

Thompson
Lindgren<\/p>\n

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Players To Watch:<\/p>\n

Colorado Avalanche<\/p>\n

Martin Necas<\/a> had two assists in the Avalanche\u2019s 5-2 win in the first meeting with the Capitals back on January 19th.<\/p>\n

Washington Capitals<\/p>\n

Ethen Frank had a goal and an assist in the Capitals\u2019 5-2 loss to Colorado in the first meeting on January 19th.<\/p>\n

Injury Report:<\/p>\n

Colorado Avalanche<\/p>\n

F\u00a0Logan O\u2019Connor<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Out
F\u00a0Gabriel Landeskog\u00a0\u2013 Out
F Ross Colton\u00a0\u2013 DTD
F Arturri Lehkonen \u2013 Out<\/p>\n

Washington Capitals<\/p>\n

F Sonny Milano<\/a> \u2013 DTD<\/p>\n

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JC Giff<\/a><\/p>\n

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: David Zalubowski-AP) Colorado Avalanche (45-13-10, 100 pts) at Washington Capitals (35-27-8, 78 pts) Venue: Capital One…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5116],"tags":[35294,193,192,144,5277,24505,7,5,1038,513,4,5573,1351,3389,109],"class_list":["post-516647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-colorado-avalanche","tag-arturri-lehkonen","tag-avalanche","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-avalanche","tag-coloradoavalanche","tag-ethan-frank","tag-gabriel-landeskog","tag-hockey","tag-logan-oconnor","tag-martin-necas","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-game-preview","tag-ross-colton","tag-sonny-milano","tag-washington-capitals"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116272871300851498","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516647","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=516647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}