{"id":544503,"date":"2026-03-16T17:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T17:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/544503\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T17:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T17:51:08","slug":"game-preview-03-16-26-at-colorado-avalanche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/544503\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Preview: 03.16.26 at Colorado Avalanche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Game Notes<\/p>\n<p>Quick Hits<\/p>\n<p>Sam Girard\u00a0returns to possibly face his former team for the first time since being traded on February 24, where he had 232 points (37G-198A) in 583 games with Colorado. He was also part of their 2022 Stanley Cup winning team.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bryan Rust\u00a0has 10 points (5G-5A) in his last nine games played against the Avalanche. He has an active seven-game point streak (4G-4A) versus them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh has points in 26 of 30 games (20-4-6) that\u00a0Tommy Novak\u00a0has recorded at least one point in.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rickard Rakell\u00a0comes into Monday\u2019s game on a five-game point streak (2G-4A) and his next point would be his longest point streak of the season.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bryan Rust\u00a0enters Monday\u2019s game riding a three-game point streak (3G-2A) and has points in eight of his last nine games played (5G-6A) dating back to Feb. 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Game Notes Quick Hits Sam Girard\u00a0returns to possibly face his former team for the first time since being&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-544503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}