{"id":540102,"date":"2026-04-04T11:26:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T11:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/540102\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T11:26:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T11:26:03","slug":"nhl-game-preview-colorado-avalanche-at-dallas-stars-with-line-combinations-04-04-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/540102\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Game Preview: Colorado Avalanche at Dallas Stars with Line Combinations 04\/04\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Untitled-design-1-47.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>AP photo\/David Zalubowski<\/p>\n<p>Colorado Avalanche (49-15-10, 108 pts) at Dallas Stars (45-19-12, 102 pts)<\/p>\n<p>Venue: American Airlines Center<br \/>Date: Saturday, April 4<br \/>Time: 3:00 pm EST<br \/>How To Watch:\u00a0ESPN+\/ABC<br \/>Radio: 96.7 FM The Ticket\/96.7 FM The Ticket<\/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 suffered an 8-6 loss to the Canucks on Wednesday night. They\u2019re 3-2-0 in their last five games, averaging 5.2 goals per game while allowing 3.6 goals per game. <\/p>\n<p>Dallas Stars News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Stars got back in the win column with a big 3-0 win over the Jets on Thursday. They\u2019re 2-2-1 in their last five games, averaging 2.8 goals per game while allowing 2.6 goals per game. <\/p>\n<p>Colorado Avalanche Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">Lehkonen-MacKinnon-Necas <br \/>Landeskog-Nelson-Nichushkin <br \/>Kelly-Kadri-Kiviranta  <br \/>Colton-Drury-O\u2019Connor<\/p>\n<p>Toews-Malinski<br \/>Kulak-Manson<br \/>Blankenburg-Burns<\/p>\n<p>Blackwood<br \/>Wedgewood<\/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>Dallas Stars Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p>Robertson-Johnston-Rantanen<br \/>Bunting Benn-Duchene-Blackwell <br \/>Back-Hryckowian-Bourque<br \/>Erne-Hyry<\/p>\n<p>Lindell-Heiskanen<br \/>Harley-Lundkvist<br \/>Bischel-Lyubushkin<br \/>Capobianco<\/p>\n<p>Oettinger <br \/>DeSmith <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/collections\/dallas-hockey?_pos=1&amp;_psq=dalls&amp;_ss=e&amp;_v=1.0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get Dallas Hockey Merchandise Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Players To Watch:<\/p>\n<p>Colorado Avalanche<\/p>\n<p>Martin Necas has seven points in two of the three games against the Stars this season, with two goals and five assists.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas Stars<\/p>\n<p>Jason Roberton has a point in each game against the Avalanche, with two goals and two assists in three games against them. <\/p>\n<p>Injury Report:<\/p>\n<p>Colorado Avalanche<\/p>\n<p>F\u00a0Nicolas Roy\u00a0\u2013 DTD<br \/>D Cale Makar \u2013 DTD<\/p>\n<p>Dallas Stars<\/p>\n<p>F Tyler Seguin \u2013 IR<br \/>F Sam Steel \u2013 DTD<br \/>F Roope Hintz \u2013 Out<br \/>F Radek Faksa \u2013 IR<br \/>D Tyler Myers \u2013 DTD<br \/>F Nathan Bastian \u2013 DTD<br \/>F Michael Bunting \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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AP photo\/David Zalubowski Colorado Avalanche (49-15-10, 108 pts) at Dallas Stars (45-19-12, 102 pts) Venue: American Airlines CenterDate:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5117],"tags":[1843,144,196,147,5278,5,5236,1800,513,4,5573,197],"class_list":{"0":"post-540102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-stars","8":"tag-central-division","9":"tag-colorado-avalanche","10":"tag-dallas","11":"tag-dallas-stars","12":"tag-dallasstars","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-injury-report","15":"tag-jason-robertson","16":"tag-martin-necas","17":"tag-nhl","18":"tag-nhl-game-preview","19":"tag-stars"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116346197039066951","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540102","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=540102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}