NHL Game Preview: Colorado Avalanche at Columbus Blue Jackets with Line Combinations 4/3/2025

Cale Makar skating for the Colorado Avalanche
Photo by Aaron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post

Colorado Avalanche (46-26-4, 96 pts) at Columbus Blue Jackets (34-30-9, 77 pts)

Venue: Nationwide Arena
Date: Thursday, April 3
Time: 7:30 pm EST
TV: ESPN + / ALT / FDSO
Radio: 
Colorado Avalanche – Altitude Sports Radio 92.5 FM / 950 AM
Columbus Blue Jackets – WBNS The Fan 97.1 FM

DraftKings Sportsbook Betting Lines:
Colorado Avalanche -1.5 ML -135
Columbus Blue Jackets +1.5 ML +115
O/U 6.5

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Colorado Avalanche News & Notes: 

The Avalanche finished March with two straight losses and could muster only three goals in the games. However, they were able to stop their losing streak and start April with a victory, defeating the Chicago Blackhawks 3-2 in a shootout last night. Artturi Lehkonen scored the shootout winner for the Avalanche. 

Columbus Blue Jackets News & Notes: 

The Blue Jackets beat Nashville on Tuesday night, 8-4, and have won three of their last four games. Columbus has scored 17 regulation goals in the three wins, with two of the wins coming in the shootout. This is the second and final meeting between these two clubs, with the Blue Jackets beating the Avalanche 6-4 in the first meeting on October 12.

Colorado Avalanche Projected Lines:

Drouin-MacKinnon-Lehkonen
Nichushkin-Nelson-Necas
Kiviranta-Coyle-Colton
Kelly-Drury-O’Connor

Toews-Makar
Lindgren-Malinski
Middleton-Johnson

Wedgewood
Blackwood

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Columbus Blue Jackets Projected Lines: 

Voronkov-Monahan-Marchenko
Jenner-Fantilli-Johnson
Sillinger-Danforth-Olivier
Aston-Reese-Kuraly-Kunin

Werenski-Fabbro
Mateychuk-Provorov
Christiansen-Severson

Merzlikins
Tarasov

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Players To Watch:

Colorado Avalanche

Nathan MacKinnon is second in the NHL scoring race, with 30 goals and 80 assists for 110 points. MacKinnon extended his point streak to five games last night with an assist on Cale Makar’s goal in the 3rd period. In the first meeting between these two teams, MacKinnon had a goal and an assist and got a ten-minute misconduct penalty with less than 15 seconds left in the third period.

Columbus Blue Jackets 

Sean Monahan missed over two months with an injury, but since returning to the lineup on March 24, he has been on fire, with seven points in four games. Monahan had the ninth four-point game of his career in the Blue Jackets’ 8-4 victory over the Predators. In the first meeting between these clubs, the 30-year-old, Brampton, Ontario native had a goal and an assist in the Columbus victory.

Injury Report:

Colorado Avalanche

LW Gabriel Landeskog – IR
D Tucker Poolman – IR
D Josh Manson – OUT

Columbus Blue Jackets

C Owen Sillinger – IR
RW Kevin Labanc – IR

Next game:

Colorado Avalanche – April 5 at St. Louis Blues
Columbus Blue Jackets – April 5 at Toronto Maple Leafs

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