{"id":544318,"date":"2026-04-06T20:29:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T20:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/544318\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T20:29:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T20:29:19","slug":"nhl-game-preview-seattle-kraken-at-winnipeg-jets-with-line-combinations-04-06-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/544318\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Game Preview: Seattle Kraken at Winnipeg Jets with Line Combinations (04\/06\/2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/jets-kraken.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"Winnipeg Jets\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: Conrad Jack (Inside The Rink)<\/p>\n<p>Seattle Kraken (32-32-11) at Winnipeg Jets (33-31-12)<br \/>Venue: Canada Life Centre<br \/>Date: Today \u2013 Monday, March 24<br \/>Time: 6:30 pm CST<br \/>How To Watch: Amazon Prime<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>Seattle Kraken News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Seattle Kraken are essentially eliminated from the 2026 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs, and they\u2019ll aim to upset the Winnipeg Jets\u2019 hopes of pushing for a playoff spot. Seattle has the edge in the season series, and they\u2019ll push for the sweep tonight over Winnipeg. Seattle is currently on a three-game losing streak and is 2-6-2 in their last 10 games played.<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg Jets News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg is in a must-win battle tonight against the Seattle Kraken, not only to avoid being swept in the season series, but to keep the point gap at three points for the final wildcard spot. Winnipeg has five games remaining after this bout with the Kraken, and they have no room for error. Winnipeg is also benefitting from the returns of Vladislav Namestnikov and Nino Niederreiter tonight. The Jets are 5-3-2 in their last 10 games played.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle Kraken Projected Lines<\/p>\n<p>McCann \u2013 Beniers \u2013 Eberle<br \/>Schwartz \u2013 Stephenson \u2013 Tolvanen<br \/>McMann \u2013 Catton \u2013 Kakko<br \/>Winterton \u2013 Fisker-Molgaard \u2013 Gaudreau<\/p>\n<p>Evans \u2013 Larsson<br \/>Lindgren \u2013 Montour<br \/>Dunn \u2013 Fleury<\/p>\n<p>Grubauer<br \/>Daccord<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg Jets Projected Lines<\/p>\n<p>Connor \u2013 Scheifele \u2013 Iafallo<br \/>Perfetti \u2013 Lowry \u2013 Vilardi<br \/>Niederreiter \u2013 Namestnikov \u2013 Lambert<br \/>Koepke \u2013 Toews \u2013 Rosen<\/p>\n<p>Morrissey \u2013 DeMelo<br \/>Samberg \u2013 Pionk<br \/>Fleury \u2013 Bryson<\/p>\n<p>Hellebuyck<br \/>Comrie<\/p>\n<p>Players To Watch:<\/p>\n<p>Seattle Kraken<\/p>\n<p>Jared McCann will be the Jets\u2019 top target to stop as the Seattle Kraken push for a series sweep of the Winnipeg Jets tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg Jets<\/p>\n<p>Mark Scheifele has been the Jets\u2019 driving force all season long, and he sits five points away from 100 total points on the season. The Jets, who are in the middle of a playoff push, will look to Scheifele and his contributions in pursuit of a win tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Next game<\/p>\n<p>Seattle Kraken \u2013 April 7th vs Minnesota Wild<br \/>Winnipeg Jets \u2013 April 9th vs St. Louis Blues<\/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\/1775507359_596_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) Seattle Kraken (32-32-11) at Winnipeg Jets (33-31-12)Venue: Canada Life CentreDate: Today&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[5,9376,4188,3522,1713,4,5573,1189,2686,234,5318,3935,18],"class_list":{"0":"post-544318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-kraken","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-jared-mccann","10":"tag-kraken","11":"tag-mark-scheifele","12":"tag-matty-beniers","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-nhl-game-preview","15":"tag-nino-niederreiter","16":"tag-seattle","17":"tag-seattle-kraken","18":"tag-seattlekraken","19":"tag-vladislav-namestnikov","20":"tag-winnipeg-jets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116359660317818585","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544318","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=544318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}