{"id":545709,"date":"2026-04-07T15:11:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/545709\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T15:11:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T15:11:15","slug":"nhl-game-preview-colorado-avalanche-at-st-louis-blues-with-line-combinations-4-7-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/545709\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Game Preview: Colorado Avalanche at St. Louis Blues with Line Combinations 4\/7\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Robert<\/p>\n

Photo: Nathan Ray Seebeck-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n

Colorado Avalanche (50-16-10) at St. Louis Blues (33-31-12)<\/p>\n

Venue: Enterprise Center
Date: Tuesday, April 7
Time: 8:00 pm EST
How To Watch:\u00a0FDSNMW\/ALT
Radio:\u00a096.7 FM The Ticket\/101 ESPN<\/p>\n

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Colorado Avalanche News & Notes:<\/p>\n

The Avalanche played the Blues just two days ago in Colorado and lost that game 3-2 after a late third-period goal. Now, the Colorado looks to redeem itself, heading into St. Louis to try and keep the Blues\u2019 chances of a wild-card spot low. They are 2-3-0 in their last five games, averaging 3.74 goals per game while allowing 2.50.<\/p>\n

St. Louis Blues News & Notes:<\/p>\n

The Blues are coming off a huge win against the Avalanche, 3-2, who are currently the No. 1 team in the NHL. St. Louis odds of getting a wild card spot are extremely low, but if they can beat Colorado in back-to-back games, nothing is impossible. They are 3-1-1 in their last five games, averaging 2.68 goals per game this season while allowing 3.08.<\/p>\n

Colorado Avalanche Projected Lines:<\/p>\n

Lehkonen-MacKinnon-Necas
Landeskog-Nelson-Nichushkin
Kelly-Kadri-Kiviranta
Colton-Drury-O\u2019Connor<\/p>\n

Toews-Malinski
Kulak-Manson
Burns-Blankenburg<\/p>\n

Blackwood
Wedgewood<\/p>\n

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St. Louis Blues Projected Lines:<\/p>\n

Holloway-Thomas-Snuggerud
Drouin-Dvorsky-Kyrou
Neighbours-Suter-Berggren
Toropchenko-Finley-Buchnevich<\/p>\n

Broberg-Mailloux
Lindstein-Parayko
Fowler-Tucker<\/p>\n

Hofer
Binnington<\/p>\n

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Players To Watch:<\/p>\n

Colorado Avalanche<\/p>\n

Brent Burns contributed two points in the loss to the Blues with a goal and an assist.<\/p>\n

St. Louis Blues<\/p>\n

Robert Thomas recorded a hat trick and was responsible for all three goals, with his third at 2:50 remaining in the game to steal the win. Thomas was also honored with one of the three NHL stars of the week.<\/p>\n

Injury Report:<\/p>\n

Colorado Avalanche<\/p>\n

C Nicolas Roy \u2013 DTD
D Cale Makar \u2013 DTD
RW Valeri Nichushkin \u2013 DTD<\/p>\n

St. Louis Blues<\/p>\n

None<\/p>\n

Next Game:<\/p>\n

Colorado Avalanche \u2013 Thursday, April 9 vs Calgary Flames
St. Louis Blues \u2013 Thursday, April 9 vs Winnipeg Jets<\/p>\n

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Joshua Michel<\/a><\/p>\n

Writer covering the St. Louis Blues | Student at the University of Missouri School of Journalism | Follow me on X for live Blues updates and news: @JoshDMichel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Nathan Ray Seebeck-USA TODAY Sports Colorado Avalanche (50-16-10) at St. Louis Blues (33-31-12) Venue: Enterprise CenterDate: Tuesday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5116],"tags":[193,1772,192,144,5277,5,5236,36147,4,45174,19906,1482],"class_list":{"0":"post-545709","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-colorado-avalanche","8":"tag-avalanche","9":"tag-brent-burns","10":"tag-colorado","11":"tag-colorado-avalanche","12":"tag-coloradoavalanche","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-injury-report","15":"tag-news-notes","16":"tag-nhl","17":"tag-players-to-watch","18":"tag-projected-lines","19":"tag-robert-thomas"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116364069711887645","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545709","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=545709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}