{"id":537448,"date":"2026-04-02T23:14:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T23:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/537448\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T23:14:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T23:14:21","slug":"nhl-game-preview-winnipeg-jets-at-dallas-stars-with-line-combinations-04-02-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/537448\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Game Preview: Winnipeg Jets at Dallas Stars with Line Combinations (04\/02\/2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Connor-Hellebuyck-Image.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"Photo By James Carey Lauder-USA TODAY Sports\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Photo By James Carey Lauder-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg Jets (32-30-12) at Dallas Stars (44-19-12)<br \/>Venue: American Airlines Center<br \/>Date: Tonight \u2013 Thursday, April 2nd<br \/>Time: 7:00 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 aims to stay in the playoff hunt tonight when it\u2019s considered to be a four-point night. The Jets absolutely have to win tonight over Dallas, or they\u2019ll face another point deficit larger than two points. Morgan Barron is expected to return to the lineup tonight, so the Jets get veteran reinforcements at a much-needed time. The Jets are 6-2-2 in their last 10 games played.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas Stars News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Dallas Stars aim to spoil the Winnipeg Jets\u2019 playoff hopes tonight with a win. Dallas, which recently signed its general manager to a contract extension, aims to create a wider gap between second and third in the Central Division. Dallas is 3-5-2 in their last 10 games played.<\/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 Barron \u2013 Ford<\/p>\n<p>Morrissey \u2013 DeMelo<br \/>Samberg \u2013 Pionk<br \/>Fleury \u2013 Salomonsson<\/p>\n<p>Hellebuyck<br \/>Comrie<\/p>\n<p>Dallas Stars Projected Lines<\/p>\n<p>Robertson \u2013 Johnston \u2013 Rantanen<br \/>Benn \u2013 Duchene \u2013 Blackwell<br \/>Back \u2013 Hryckowian \u2013 Bourque<br \/>Erne \u2013 Hyry<\/p>\n<p>Lindell \u2013 Heiskanen<br \/>Harley \u2013 Lundkvist<br \/>Bichsel \u2013 Lyubushkin<br \/>Capobianco<\/p>\n<p>Oettinger<br \/>DeSmith<\/p>\n<p>Players To Watch:<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg Jets<\/p>\n<p>Mark Scheifele inches closer to 100 points, and the Jets inch closer to a playoff spot. You absolutely have to think that he\u2019s the game-changer for Winnipeg tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas Stars<\/p>\n<p>Mikko Rantanen aims to be a dagger for the Dallas Stars tonight. Winnipeg have a lot of work on their hands with the Stars\u2019 first lane, and Rantanen is a huge part of that reason.<\/p>\n<p>Next game<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg Jets \u2013 April 2nd vs Dallas Stars<br \/>Dallas Stars \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\/04\/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 By James Carey Lauder-USA TODAY Sports Winnipeg Jets (32-30-12) at Dallas Stars (44-19-12)Venue: American Airlines CenterDate: Tonight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5117],"tags":[196,147,5278,5,3522,270,4,5573,197,18],"class_list":{"0":"post-537448","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-stars","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-stars","10":"tag-dallasstars","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-mark-scheifele","13":"tag-mikko-rantanen","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-nhl-game-preview","16":"tag-stars","17":"tag-winnipeg-jets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116337659652384334","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537448","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=537448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}