{"id":549072,"date":"2026-04-09T23:15:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T23:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/549072\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T23:15:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T23:15:27","slug":"nhl-game-preview-winnipeg-jets-at-st-louis-blues-with-line-combinations-04-09-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/549072\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Game Preview: Winnipeg Jets at St. Louis Blues with Line Combinations (04\/09\/2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Photo Credit: Conrad Jack (Inside The Rink)<\/p>\n

Winnipeg Jets (34-31-12) at St. Louis Blues (33-32-12)
Venue: Enterprise Center
Date: Tonight \u2013 Thursday, April 9th
Time: 7:00 pm CST
How To Watch: TSN3
Radio: 680 CJOB<\/p>\n

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Winnipeg Jets News & Notes:<\/p>\n

Winnipeg is in a final push scenario for its 2025-26 NHL season. A win tonight, and a favourable outta town scoreboard puts them into a possible one-point out scenario. A loss and a less-than-ideal outta town scoreboard could put them back five points, and possibly even be a season-ender. Must-win games are through the remainder of the year, but tonight is a big decider between two Central Division rivals.<\/p>\n

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

St. Louis is in the exact same scenario as Winnipeg, although they are two points behind the Jets. A win in regulation tonight, alongside a favourable outta town scoreboard, can put them back within three points. A loss puts them back seven points with a less-than-ideal outta town scoreboard. <\/p>\n

Winnipeg Jets Projected Lines<\/p>\n

Connor \u2013 Scheifele \u2013 Iafallo
Perfetti \u2013 Lowry \u2013 Vilardi
Neiderreiter \u2013 Namestnikov \u2013 Lambert
Koepke \u2013 Toews \u2013 Rosen<\/p>\n

Morrissey \u2013 DeMelo
Samberg \u2013 Pionk
Fleury \u2013 Bryson<\/p>\n

Hellebuyck
Comrie<\/p>\n

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

Holloway \u2013 Thomas \u2013 Snuggerud
Neighbours \u2013 Buchnevich \u2013 Berggren
Stenberg \u2013 Dvorsky \u2013 Kyrou
Toropchenko \u2013 Finley \u2013 Walker<\/p>\n

Broberg \u2013 Mailloux
Lindstein \u2013 Parayko
Fowler \u2013 Tucker<\/p>\n

Binnington
Hofer<\/p>\n

Players To Watch:<\/p>\n

Winnipeg Jets<\/p>\n

Mark Scheifele is yet again my player to watch for the Winnipeg Jets. If he\u2019s not contributing, Winnipeg doesn\u2019t seem to have much scoring to supplement that loss. With Winnipeg\u2019s current playoff push, it\u2019ll be interesting to see how Scheifele performs tonight.<\/p>\n

St. Louis Blues<\/p>\n

Jordan Binnington will be St. Louis\u2019 biggest asset tonight to get themselves into a final playoff push. If the Blues can pull out a big regulation win tonight, Binnington has to be front and centre of that.<\/p>\n

Next game<\/p>\n

Winnipeg Jets \u2013 April 11 vs Philadelphia Flyers
St. Louis Blues \u2013 April 11 vs Chicago Blackhawks<\/p>\n

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Conrad Jack<\/a><\/p>\n

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 ‘Saturday’s notebook’ and through individual articles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo Credit: Conrad Jack (Inside The Rink) Winnipeg Jets (34-31-12) at St. Louis Blues (33-32-12)Venue: Enterprise CenterDate: Tonight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5121],"tags":[3345,5,78,1268,3522,4,5573,84,77,18,5288],"class_list":{"0":"post-549072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-winnipeg-jets","8":"tag-2025-26-nhl-season","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-jets","11":"tag-jordan-binnington","12":"tag-mark-scheifele","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-nhl-game-preview","15":"tag-st-louis-blues","16":"tag-winnipeg","17":"tag-winnipeg-jets","18":"tag-winnipegjets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116377300236923177","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549072","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=549072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}