{"id":520154,"date":"2026-03-24T13:36:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T13:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/520154\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T13:36:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T13:36:17","slug":"nhl-game-preview-colorado-avalanche-at-pittsburgh-penguins-with-line-combinations-03-24-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/520154\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Game Preview: Colorado Avalanche at Pittsburgh Penguins with Line Combinations 03\/24\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/NHL-Game-Preview-Colorado-Avalanche-at-Pittsburgh-Penguins-with-Line-Combinations-03.24.2026.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"NHL Game Preview: Colorado Avalanche at Pittsburgh Penguins with Line Combinations 03\/24\/2026\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>(Photo by: DavId Zalubowski-AP)<\/p>\n<p>Colorado Avalanche (46-13-10, 102 pts) at Pittsburgh Penguins (35-19-16, 86 pts)<\/p>\n<p>Venue: PPG Paints Arena<br \/>Date: Tuesday, March 24<br \/>Time: 7:00 pm EST<br \/>How To Watch:\u00a0ESPN+, Altitude Sports<br \/>Radio:\u00a0Altitude Sports Radio 92.5\/ 105.9 The X<\/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>Colorado Avalanche News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Avalanche beat the Capitals 3-2 in overtime in their last game on Sunday, March 22nd. In their previous five games, Colorado has a 2-2-1 record, scoring 2.2 goals per game while allowing three. The Avalanche lost their only other meeting with the Penguins 7-2 back on March 16th at home. Colorado has a five-point lead over the Dallas Stars for the Top spot in the Central Division.<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh Penguins &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Penguins lost 5-1 in their last game on Sunday to the Carolina Hurricanes. In their previous five games, they have a 3-1-1 record, scoring 4.4 goals per game while allowing four. Pittsburgh has a one-point lead over the Columbus Blue Jackets for the second seed in the Metropolitan Division entering play Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado Avalanche Projected Lines<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">Landeskog-MacKinnon-Necas<br \/>Nichushkin-Nelson-Kadri<br \/>Kelly-Drury-Kiviranta<br \/>Bardakov-Roy-Brindley<\/p>\n<p>Kulak-Makar<br \/>Toews-Malinski<br \/>Manson-Burns<\/p>\n<p>Wedgewood<br \/>Blackwood<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/search?q=Colorado&amp;options%5Bprefix%5D=last\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get your Colorado Hockey Merchandise Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh Penguins Projected Lines<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">Rakell-Crosby-Rust<br \/>Chinakov-Novak-Malkin<br \/>Mantha-Kindel-Brazeau<br \/>Soderblom-Dewar-Acciari<\/p>\n<p>Wotherspoon-Karlsson<br \/>Girard-Letang<br \/>Graves-Clifton<\/p>\n<p>Skinner<br \/>Silovs<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/collections\/pittsburgh-hockey?_pos=1&amp;_psq=pittsburgh&amp;_ss=e&amp;_v=1.0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get Pittsburgh Hockey Merchandise Here:<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Players To Watch:<\/p>\n<p>Colorado Avalanche<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/?s=Brett%20Burns&amp;post_tag=brent-burns\" id=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/?s=Brett%20Burns&amp;post_tag=brent-burns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brent Burns<\/a> had a goal on five shots in the Avalanche\u2019s 7-2 loss in their first game against Pittsburgh on March 16th.<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh Penguins<\/p>\n<p>Evgeni Malkin had two goals and an assist in the Penguins\u2019 7-2 road win over Colorado back on March 16th.<\/p>\n<p>Injury Report:<\/p>\n<p>Colorado Avalanche<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">F\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/tag\/logan-oconnor-3\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Logan O\u2019Connor<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 Out<br \/>F Ross Colton\u00a0\u2013 DTD<br \/>F Arturri Lehkonen \u2013 Out<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh Penguins<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">C\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/tag\/filip-hallander\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Filip Hallander<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR<br \/>G\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/player-profile-joel-blomqvist\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joel Blomqvist<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 IR<br \/>D\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/tag\/jack-st-ivany\/\" id=\"6948\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jack St. Ivany<\/a> \u2013 IR<br \/>D Ryan Shea \u2013 DTD<\/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\/jcgifford18d2e1cafa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774359377_433_8db68b5dc1a6417474926df3f6d3c47ad5c5859e11a1a42050a5fdf654aba77b.jpeg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-75 photo\" height=\"75\" width=\"75\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/author\/jcgifford18d2e1cafa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JC Giff<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Father of 3, Bruins, Red Sox, Cubs, Liverpool, Syracuse football and Basketball Fan. 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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 (46-13-10, 102 pts) at Pittsburgh Penguins (35-19-16, 86 pts) Venue: PPG Paints&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5116],"tags":[35294,193,60420,192,144,5277,1495,2522,5,1610,98,1038,4,5573,100,1351,9748],"class_list":["post-520154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-colorado-avalanche","tag-arturri-lehkonen","tag-avalanche","tag-brett-burns","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-avalanche","tag-coloradoavalanche","tag-evgeni-malkin","tag-filip-hallander","tag-hockey","tag-jack-st-ivany","tag-joel-blomqvist","tag-logan-oconnor","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-game-preview","tag-pittsburgh-penguins","tag-ross-colton","tag-ryan-shea"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116284424089637632","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520154","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=520154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}