{"id":533575,"date":"2026-03-31T22:06:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T22:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/533575\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T22:06:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T22:06:25","slug":"nhl-game-preview-winnipeg-jets-at-chicago-blackhawks-with-line-combinations-03-31-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/533575\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Game Preview: Winnipeg Jets at Chicago Blackhawks with Line Combinations 03\/31\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/WINNIPEG-JETS-VS-CHICAGO-BLACKHAWKS.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: Conrad Jack (Inside The Rink)<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg Jets (31-30-12) at Chicago Blackhawks (27-34-13)<br \/>Venue: United Center<br \/>Date: Tonight \u2013 Tuesday, March 31st<br \/>Time: 7:30 pm CST<br \/>How To Watch: TSN3<br \/>Radio: 680 CJOB<\/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>Winnipeg Jets News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg is aiming to keep its winning ways going against the Chicago Blackhawks tonight. The Jets are just three points out of a playoff spot, and they\u2019ll be watching the outta town scoreboard a lot as they aim to get just one point out of the final wild-card spot. Winnipeg is riding high after a big 4-2 win over the Colorado Avalanche on Saturday night, and they\u2019ll aim to have that carry over. The Jets are 5-3-2 in their last 10 games played<\/p>\n<p>Chicago Blackhawks News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Chicago Blackhawks welcome the Winnipeg Jets to the United Center for a Central Division clash, and they\u2019ll aim to spoil Winnipeg\u2019s push for the playoffs. The Blackhawks lost Artyom Levshunov and Matt Grzelcyk for the rest of the season due to injuries. Chicago is 3-5-2 in their last 10 games and is on a three-game losing streak currently.<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg Jets Projected Lines<\/p>\n<p>Connor \u2013 Scheifele \u2013 Iafallo<br \/>Perfetti \u2013 Lowry \u2013 Vilardi<br \/>Koepke \u2013 Toews- Lambert<br \/>Rosen \u2013 Zhilkin \u2013 Ford<\/p>\n<p>Morrissey \u2013 DeMelo<br \/>Samberg \u2013 Pionk<br \/>Bryson \u2013 Salomonsson<\/p>\n<p>Hellebuyck<br \/>Comrie<\/p>\n<p>Chicago Blackhawks Projected Lines<\/p>\n<p>Greene \u2013 Bedard \u2013 Lardis<br \/>Bertuzzi \u2013 Frondell \u2013 Mikheyev<br \/>Donato \u2013 Nazar \u2013 Burakovsky<br \/>Teravainen \u2013 Lafferty \u2013 Slaggert<\/p>\n<p>Vlasic \u2013 Crevier<br \/>Kaiser \u2013 Rinzel<br \/>Korchinski \u2013 Del Mastro<\/p>\n<p>Knight<br \/>Soderblom<\/p>\n<p>Players To Watch:<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg Jets<\/p>\n<p>Mark Scheifele is like a man possessed right now with how he\u2019s playing. He\u2019s nearing a 100-point season, and most of his games are multi-point games. He\u2019ll aim to be a significant contributor as Winnipeg continues its playoff push.<\/p>\n<p>Chicago Blackhawks<\/p>\n<p>Spencer Knight looks to steal a game against the Winnipeg Jets for Chicago yet again, and he\u2019ll be aiming to contribute to the team\u2019s goal tonight against their Central Division opponent.<\/p>\n<p>Next game<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg Jets \u2013 April 2nd vs Dallas Stars<br \/>Chicago Blackhawks \u2013 April 2nd vs Edmonton Oilers<\/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\/cjack\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774994785_123_e50dfbea4641d046ef8e16e2e54ca52abea6c285162ff2d320dc3eb277ca8c8d.png\"  class=\"avatar avatar-75 photo\" height=\"75\" width=\"75\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/author\/cjack\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Conrad Jack<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Conrad Jack is a Manitoba-based media credentialed sportswriter covering the Winnipeg Jets (NHL) and the Manitoba Moose (AHL). He also covers the NHL Draft and World Junior Championship for ITR. He also covers league-wide news in his weekly series &#8216;Saturday&#8217;s notebook&#8217; and through individual articles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo Credit: Conrad Jack (Inside The Rink) Winnipeg Jets (31-30-12) at Chicago Blackhawks (27-34-13)Venue: United CenterDate: Tonight \u2013&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5121],"tags":[3345,96,5,78,3522,4,5573,488,77,18,5288],"class_list":{"0":"post-533575","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-winnipeg-jets","8":"tag-2025-26-nhl-season","9":"tag-chicago-blackhawks","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-jets","12":"tag-mark-scheifele","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-nhl-game-preview","15":"tag-spencer-knight","16":"tag-winnipeg","17":"tag-winnipeg-jets","18":"tag-winnipegjets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116326066481193751","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533575","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=533575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}