Colorado Avalanche (53-16-11) @ Calgary Flames (33-38-9)<\/p>\n
7 p.m. MT | Scotiabank Saddledome | Watch: KTVD-20, Altitude, Altitude+ | Listen: Altitude Sports Radio (92.5 FM)\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Avalanche concludes its final road trip of the 2025-26 regular season with a game against the Calgary Flames on Tuesday. This is the third and final meeting between the teams this season, as the Avalanche won 9-2 in Denver on March 30th and 3-1 in Colorado on April 9th.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Latest Result (COL): COL 2, EDM 1 (SO)<\/p>\n
Latest Result (CGY): UTA 1, CGY 4<\/p>\n
Win in Edmonton<\/p>\n
Nathan MacKinnon’s shootout winner and Scott Wedgewood’s 30 saves on 31 shots propelled the Avalanche past the Edmonton Oilers 2-1 on Monday at Rogers Place. Sam Malinski scored for a Colorado team that also went 3\/3 on the penalty kill. The Avs opened the scoring at 9:05 of the second period when Malinski scored his eighth goal of the season via a left-circle snapshot set up by Nicolas Roy’s feed. The Oilers tied the game at 15:09 of the middle frame when Connor McDavid scored from the bottom of the right circle. In the shootout, McDavid and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins scored for Edmonton, while Valeri Nichushkin, Martin Necas and MacKinnon lit the lamp for Colorado.<\/p>\n
Leading the Way
\nNate the Great<\/p>\n
MacKinnon leads the NHL in goals (52) while ranking third in points (126) and assists (74).<\/p>\n
One Half of the Lumberyard<\/p>\n
Mackenzie Blackwood is tied for ninth among NHL goaltenders in shutouts (3).<\/p>\n
Marty Party<\/p>\n
Necas is tied for seventh in the NHL in points (99).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Series History<\/p>\n
In 136 previous regular-season games against the Flames, the Avalanche has a record of 68-54-8-6. The teams have met once in the playoffs, with the Avalanche defeating the Flames in five games in the 2019 Western Conference First Round.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Success on Sunday<\/p>\n
The Flames defeated the Utah Mammoth 4-1 on Sunday at Scotiabank Saddledome. In the first period, Calgary took a 2-0 lead after goals from Matt Coronato at 7:06 and Connor Zary at 8:27. In the third period, Mikael Backlund and Brayden Pachal scored at 6:01 and 9:10, respectively, to give the Flames a 4-0 lead. Lawson Crouse put the Mammoth on the board with a goal at 11:20 of the third period.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Contributing Offense Against Calgary<\/p>\n
MacKinnon has posted 46 points (19g\/27a) in 32 regular-season games against the Flames, in addition to eight points (3g\/5a) in five playoff contests.<\/p>\n
Necas has recorded 13 points (6g\/7a) in 14 contests against Calgary.<\/p>\n
Gabriel Landeskog has registered 24 points (9g\/15a) in 31 regular-season games against the Flames along with four points (1g\/3a) in five playoff contests.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Scoring at the\u00a0Saddledome<\/p>\n
Coronato leads the Flames in points (44) and assists (26) while ranking fourth in goals (18).<\/p>\n
Morgan Frost leads the Flames in goals (21) while ranking tied for second in points (42) and fourth in assists (21).<\/p>\n
Backlund is second on the Flames in assists (25) while ranking tied for second in points (42) and fifth in goals (17).<\/p>\n
A Numbers Game
\n1.50<\/p>\n
Colorado’s 1.50 goals allowed per game since April 4th are the fewest in the NHL.<\/p>\n
84.3%<\/p>\n
The Avalanche has posted an NHL-best 84.3% mark on the penalty kill.<\/p>\n
4<\/p>\n
Malinski’s four goals since March 30th are tied for the most among NHL defensemen in that span.<\/p>\n
Quote That Left a Mark<\/p>\n
“It took us a little while to get going the first few minutes of the hockey game.\u00a0But, I thought after that we played a really sound hockey game. Especially through the majority of the last 50 minutes.”<\/p>\n
— Avalanche Assistant Coach Dave Hakstol on Monday’s win against the Oilers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colorado Avalanche (53-16-11) @ Calgary Flames (33-38-9) 7 p.m. MT | Scotiabank Saddledome | Watch: KTVD-20, Altitude, Altitude+…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-603861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-calgary","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-calgary","10":"tag-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}