{"id":545906,"date":"2026-04-07T17:21:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T17:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/545906\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T17:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T17:21:11","slug":"projected-lineup-april-7-vs-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/545906\/","title":{"rendered":"Projected Lineup: April 7 vs. Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Blues earned a big win Sunday in Denver, and it looks like they&#8217;ll ice the same lineup on Tuesday when the Colorado Avalanche visit Enterprise Center for the rematch.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Thomas and the first line led the way for the Blues in their 3-2 win at Ball Arena. Thomas registered his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/blues\/video\/stl-col-thomas-has-a-hat-trick-against-the-avalanche-6392628507112\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first career hat trick<\/a>, with all three tallies assisted by linemates Dylan Holloway and Jimmy Snuggerud.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our top line can dominate against anyone,&#8221; said Head Coach Jim Montgomery. &#8220;It was nice to see that, especially on the road in big moments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Joel Hofer took the morning skate in the starter&#8217;s net and looks to be getting the nod for the third straight game. Since returning from the\u00a0break, Hofer has posted a 9-1-2 record with a 1.71 goals-against average, .943 save percentage and two shutouts.<\/p>\n<p>Game time for Blues vs. Avalanche is 7\u00a0p.m. Fans can tune in on FanDuel Sports Network\u00a0Midwest and 101\u00a0ESPN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The St. Louis Blues earned a big win Sunday in Denver, and it looks like they&#8217;ll ice the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5120],"tags":[71,5,4,534,84,5285,5284],"class_list":{"0":"post-545906","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-louis-blues","8":"tag-blues","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-st-louis","12":"tag-st-louis-blues","13":"tag-stlouis","14":"tag-stlouisblues"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116364580385110409","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545906","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=545906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}