{"id":548997,"date":"2026-04-09T21:06:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T21:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/548997\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T21:06:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T21:06:18","slug":"line-combinations-jets-at-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/548997\/","title":{"rendered":"Line Combinations: Jets at Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 34-31-12 Winnipeg Jets are down in St. Louis for a critical clash with the 33-32-12 Blues with the 2025-26 season on the line.<\/p>\n<p>It will possibly be a playoff fate-deciding game for both clubs, which currently sit behind Nashville, Los Angeles and San Jose for the final Western Conference wild card spot.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Photo by James Carey Lauder\/USA Today&amp;nbsp;\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/fe6a3b11355dfe094d2a277382b69dd4.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo by James Carey Lauder\/USA Today\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If either team wants to make the postseason, a near-perfect record will be required, while all other competitors will need to see disastrous outcomes in their remaining regular season contests.<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg will dress the same lineup it laced on Monday &#8211; a 6-2 win over the visiting Seattle Kraken. Connor Hellebuyck will once again get the start in goal, while Jacob Bryson remains in the lineup as Elias Salomonsson continues to recover from a concussion. Gus Nyquist and Morgan Barron remain out, injured as well.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Winnipeg Jets expected line combinations for Thursday, April 9 at St. Louis:<\/p>\n<p>Connor-Scheifele-Iafallo<\/p>\n<p>Perfetti-Lowry-Vilardi<\/p>\n<p>Koepke-Toews-Ros\u00e9n<\/p>\n<p>Niederreiter-Namestnikov-Lambert<\/p>\n<p>Morrissey-DeMelo<\/p>\n<p>Samberg-Pionk<\/p>\n<p>Fleury-Bryson<\/p>\n<p>Hellebuyck<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 34-31-12 Winnipeg Jets are down in St. Louis for a critical clash with the 33-32-12 Blues with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5121],"tags":[1171,5,11076,78,4490,4,234,534,77,18,5288],"class_list":{"0":"post-548997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-winnipeg-jets","8":"tag-connor-hellebuyck","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-jacob-bryson","11":"tag-jets","12":"tag-morgan-barron","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-seattle-kraken","15":"tag-st-louis","16":"tag-winnipeg","17":"tag-winnipeg-jets","18":"tag-winnipegjets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116376790489884478","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548997","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=548997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}