{"id":540609,"date":"2026-04-04T17:19:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T17:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/540609\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T17:19:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T17:19:17","slug":"nhl-game-preview-winnipeg-jets-at-columbus-blue-jackets-with-line-combinations-04-04-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/540609\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Game Preview: Winnipeg Jets at Columbus Blue Jackets with Line Combinations (04\/04\/2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Photo Credit: Conrad Jack (Inside The Rink)<\/p>\n

Winnipeg Jets (32-31-12) at Columbus Blue Jackets (38-26-12)
Venue: Nationwide Arena
Date: Tonight \u2013 Saturday, April 4th
Time: 6:00 pm CST
How To Watch: Hockey Night in Canada
Radio: 680 CJOB<\/p>\n

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Winnipeg Jets News & Notes:<\/p>\n

The Winnipeg Jets suffered a crucial loss to the Dallas Stars on Thursday night, and the outta town scoreboard did them no favours. The Jets must pick up two points against Columbus tonight, on top of seeing the outta town scoreboard work in their favour to aid their playoff push. Winnipeg has seven games remaining and sits three points out of a playoff spot.<\/p>\n

Columbus Blue Jackets News & Notes:<\/p>\n

Columbus hosts Winnipeg tonight and looks to pick up a massive two points of their own as they sit in a four-way tie for the final wildcard spot in the East. Columbus is without veteran defender Damon Severson, who underwent shoulder surgery and is expected to miss the remainder of the season. <\/p>\n

Winnipeg Jets Projected Lines<\/p>\n

Connor \u2013 Scheifele \u2013 Iafallo
Perfetti \u2013 Lowry \u2013 Vilardi
Koepke \u2013 Toews- Lambert
Rosen \u2013 Barron \u2013 Ford<\/p>\n

Morrissey \u2013 DeMelo
Samberg \u2013 Pionk
Fleury \u2013 Bryson<\/p>\n

Hellebuyck
Comrie<\/p>\n

Columbus Blue Jackets Projected Lines<\/p>\n

Marchment \u2013 Fantilli \u2013 Marchenko
Jenner \u2013 Monahan \u2013 Garland
Sillinger \u2013 Coyle \u2013 Heinen
Aston-Reese \u2013 Del Bel Belluz \u2013 Wood<\/p>\n

Werenski \u2013 Mateychuk
Provorov \u2013 Fabbro
Christiansen \u2013 Gudbranson<\/p>\n

Greaves
Merzlikins<\/p>\n

Players To Watch:<\/p>\n

Winnipeg Jets<\/p>\n

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

Columbus Blue Jackets<\/p>\n

Adam Fantilli will face off against Winnipeg\u2019s top lines, and he\u2019ll aim to be that shutdown guy as the Blue Jackets continue their playoff push.<\/p>\n

Next game<\/p>\n

Winnipeg Jets \u2013 April 6th vs Seattle Kraken
Columbus Blue Jackets \u2013 April 7th vs Detroit Red Wings<\/p>\n

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Conrad Jack<\/a><\/p>\n

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 ‘Saturday’s notebook’ and through individual articles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo Credit: Conrad Jack (Inside The Rink) Winnipeg Jets (32-31-12) at Columbus Blue Jackets (38-26-12)Venue: Nationwide ArenaDate: Tonight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5108],"tags":[3345,1942,3644,5180,897,230,5179,5,3522,4,5573,18],"class_list":{"0":"post-540609","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-columbus-blue-jackets","8":"tag-2025-26-nhl-season","9":"tag-adam-fantilli","10":"tag-blue-jackets","11":"tag-bluejackets","12":"tag-columbus","13":"tag-columbus-blue-jackets","14":"tag-columbusbluejackets","15":"tag-hockey","16":"tag-mark-scheifele","17":"tag-nhl","18":"tag-nhl-game-preview","19":"tag-winnipeg-jets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116347586613717349","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540609","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=540609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}