{"id":550343,"date":"2026-04-11T13:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T13:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/550343\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T13:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T13:59:07","slug":"nhl-game-preview-columbus-blue-jackets-at-montreal-canadiens-with-line-combinations-04-11-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/550343\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Game Preview: Columbus Blue Jackets at Montreal Canadiens with Line Combinations 04\/11\/2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Untitled-design-17.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>AP Photo\/Paul Vernon<\/p>\n<p>Columbus Blue Jackets (39-28-12, 90 pts) at Montreal Canadiens (47-22-10, 104 pts)<\/p>\n<p>Venue: Bell Centre<br \/>Date: Saturday, April 11<br \/>Time: 7:00 pm EST<br \/>How To Watch: ESPN+\/FDSN OH\/TVAS\/SNE\/CITY<br \/>Radio: 97.1 The Fan, 93.3 The Bus, 1460 AM\/TSN 690<\/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>The Blue Jackets suffered a 5-0 loss to the Sabres on Thursday. They\u2019ve dropped seven of their last eight games, averaging 1.8 goals per game while allowing 3.6 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal Canadiens News &amp; Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The Canadiens picked up their second straight win on Thursday with a 2-1 victory over the Lightning. They\u2019ve won ten of their last 11 games, averaging 3.5 goals per game while allowing 1.9 goals per game. <\/p>\n<p>Columbus Blue Jackets Projected Lines:<\/p>\n<p>Lundestrom-Fantilli-Marchenko<br \/>Heinen-Coyle-Sillinger<br \/>Marchment-Jenner-Garland<br \/>Johnson-Monahan-Wood<\/p>\n<p>Werenski-Fabbro  <br \/>Provorov-Mateychuk <br \/>Zamula-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>Montreal Canadiens Projected Lines<\/p>\n<p>Caufield-Suzuki-Slafkovsky<br \/>Texier-Kapanen-Demidov<br \/>Newhook-Danault-Dach<br \/>Veleno-Evans-Anderson<\/p>\n<p>Matheson-Dobson<br \/>Struble-Hutson<br \/>Engstrom-Xhekaj<\/p>\n<p>Dobes<br \/>Fowler<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.insidetherink.com\/search?q=Montreal&amp;options%5Bprefix%5D=last\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get your Montreal Hockey Merchandise Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Players To Watch:<\/p>\n<p>Columbus Blue Jackets<\/p>\n<p>Dmitri Voronkov had a goal and an assist in Columbus\u2019 win over Montreal. He didn\u2019t have a point in their loss.<\/p>\n<p>Montreal Canadiens<\/p>\n<p>Lane Hutson has a point in each game against Columbus this season, with a goal and two assists in two games.<\/p>\n<p>Injury Report:<\/p>\n<p>Columbus Blue Jackets<\/p>\n<p id=\"h-ottawa-senators-filip-hallander-ir-c-evgeni-malkin-ir\">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>Montreal Canadiens<\/p>\n<p>F Patrik Laine \u2013 IR<br \/>D David Reinbacher \u2013 Out<br \/>F Brendan Gallagher \u2013 DTD<br \/>D Alexandre Carrier \u2013 Out<br \/>D Kaiden Guhle \u2013 DTD<\/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\/Paul Vernon Columbus Blue Jackets (39-28-12, 90 pts) at Montreal Canadiens (47-22-10, 104 pts) Venue: Bell CentreDate:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5108],"tags":[2216,3644,5180,897,230,5179,6815,5,5236,502,2218,21,4,5573],"class_list":{"0":"post-550343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-columbus-blue-jackets","8":"tag-atlantic-division","9":"tag-blue-jackets","10":"tag-bluejackets","11":"tag-columbus","12":"tag-columbus-blue-jackets","13":"tag-columbusbluejackets","14":"tag-dmitri-voronkov","15":"tag-hockey","16":"tag-injury-report","17":"tag-lane-hutson","18":"tag-metropolitan-division","19":"tag-montreal-canadiens","20":"tag-nhl","21":"tag-nhl-game-preview"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116386433714703172","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550343","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=550343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}