{"id":545319,"date":"2026-04-07T10:40:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T10:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/545319\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T10:40:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T10:40:01","slug":"nhl-game-preview-columbus-blue-jackets-at-detroit-red-wings-with-line-combinations-04-07-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/545319\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Game Preview: Columbus Blue Jackets at Detroit Red Wings with Line Combinations 04\/07\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Untitled-design-4.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>AP Photo\/Duane Burleson<\/p>\n<p>Columbus Blue Jackets (38-27-12, 88 pts) at Detroit Red Wings (40-29-8, 88 pts)<\/p>\n<p>Venue: Little Caesars Arena<br \/>Date: Tuesday, April 7<br \/>Time: 7:00 pm EST<br \/>How To Watch:\u00a0ESPN+\/FDSN OH\/FDSN DET<br \/>Radio: T97.1 The Fan, 93.3 The Bus, 1460 AM\/97.1 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>Columbus Blue Jackets News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">The Blue Jackets have dropped six straight games, most recently a 2-1 loss to the Jets on Saturday. During their skid, they\u2019re averaging 1.7 goals per game while allowing 3.5 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit Red Wings News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Red Wings dropped two straight over the weekend, losing 4-1 to the Rangers and then 5-4 to the Wild on Sunday. In Sunday\u2019s game, they came back from a three-goal deficit to tie it at 4-4 before losing. They\u2019ve dropped six of their last eight games, averaging 2.8 goals per game while allowing 3.8 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p>Columbus Blue Jackets Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p>Marchment-Fantilli-Marchenko<br \/>Jenner-Monahan-Garland<br \/>Sillinger-Coyle-Heinen<br \/>Aston Reese-Lundestrom-Wood<\/p>\n<p>Werenski-Mateychuk <br \/>Provorov-Fabbro <br \/>Christiansen-Gudbranson<\/p>\n<p>Greaves<br \/>Merzlikins<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/collections\/columbus-hockey?_pos=1&amp;_psq=colum&amp;_ss=e&amp;_v=1.0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get Your Columbus Hockey Merchandise Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Detroit Red Wings Projected Lines<\/p>\n<p>Finnie-Larkin-Raymond<br \/>DeBrincat-Copp-Kane<br \/>Kasper-Compher-Perron <br \/>van Riemsdyk-Rasmussen-Mazur<\/p>\n<p>Edvinsson-Seider<br \/>Chiarot-Bernard Docker<br \/>Johansson-Sandin Pellikka<\/p>\n<p>Gibson<br \/>Talbot<\/p>\n<p>Buy Detroit Hockey Merchandise Below!<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/collections\/detroit-hockey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Get Your Detroit Hockey Merchandise Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Players To Watch:<\/p>\n<p>Columbus Blue Jackets<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">Adam Fantilli has three goals in two games against Detroit this season.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit Red Wings<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Kane has two points in each game against Columbus this season, with a goal and three assists. <\/p>\n<p>Injury Report:<\/p>\n<p>Columbus Blue Jackets<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-\">D <a href=\"https:\/\/insidetherink.com\/tag\/brendan-smith\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brendan Smith<\/a> \u2013 IR<br \/>D Damon Severson \u2013 Out<br \/>F Dmitri Voronkov \u2013 Out<br \/>F Mathieu Olivier \u2013 DTD<\/p>\n<p>Detroit Red Wings<\/p>\n<p>D Justin Faulk \u2013 Out<\/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\/Duane Burleson Columbus Blue Jackets (38-27-12, 88 pts) at Detroit Red Wings (40-29-8, 88 pts) Venue: Little&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5101],"tags":[1942,2216,230,599,93,5137,5,5236,2218,4,5573,2821,3358,5138],"class_list":{"0":"post-545319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-detroit-red-wings","8":"tag-adam-fantilli","9":"tag-atlantic-division","10":"tag-columbus-blue-jackets","11":"tag-detroit","12":"tag-detroit-red-wings","13":"tag-detroitredwings","14":"tag-hockey","15":"tag-injury-report","16":"tag-metropolitan-division","17":"tag-nhl","18":"tag-nhl-game-preview","19":"tag-patrick-kane","20":"tag-red-wings","21":"tag-redwings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116363005110435787","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545319","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=545319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}