Chicago Blackhawks: No surprise, the Avalanche are heavy favorites on MondayRyan Sikeson January 24, 2022 at 6:08 pm

Betting Odds

As you would expect, the Avalanche are heavy favorites coming into this game:

Money lines, over/under, TV per WynnBet:

Blackhawks: +240
Avalanche: -290
O/U: 6.5
Time: 8 pm CT
TV: ALT, NBCS-CH+, ESPN+

Projected Lineups

After playing quite well against the Minnesota Wild in the second leg of their back-to-back home and home series on Saturday, Kevin Lankinen has been placed on the injured reserve (hand).

Here’s how the Blackhawks lined up in Saturday’s game:

Forwards

Hagel-Strome-Kane

DeBrincat-Toews-Lafferty

Kubalik-Dach-Kurashev

Borgstrom-Carpenter-Entwistle

Defense

McCabe-Seth Jones

De Haan-Murphy

Caleb Jones-Gustafsson

Goaltender

Lankinen

Obviously, with Lankinen sidelined, Marc-Andre Fleury likely goes against the high-powered Avs tonight. Over his future Hall-of-Fame career, the 37-year-old has gone 15-9-3 in 28 games against Colorado, owning a .917 SV% and 2.52 GAA with three shutouts.

In both meetings this season, “Flower” gave up four goals to the Avs.

Here’s how Colorado lined up against Montreal on Saturday:

Forwards

Landeskog-MacKinnon-Rantanen

Nichushkin-Kadri-Burakovsky

O’Connor-Newhook-Compher

Jost-Maltsev-Aube-Kubel

Defense

Toews-Makar

J. Johnson-Girard

MacDermid-E. Johnson

Goaltender

Kuemper

The Chicago Blackhawks will need to find their offense and find it fast against the top-scoring team in the league. They are 4-0-2 when leading after two periods on the road. If they can get a couple of goals early, the Hawks have a chance to steal one in Denver.