{"id":141320,"date":"2026-01-20T09:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T09:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/141320\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T09:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T09:39:07","slug":"avalanche-host-the-ducks-after-mackinnons-2-goal-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/141320\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche host the Ducks after MacKinnon\u2019s 2-goal game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anaheim Ducks (25-21-3, in the Pacific Division) vs. Colorado Avalanche (34-5-8, in the Central Division) Denver; Wednesday, 9 p.m. EST\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Anaheim Ducks (25-21-3, in the Pacific Division) vs. Colorado Avalanche (34-5-8, in the Central Division)<\/p>\n<p>Denver; Wednesday, 9 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p>BOTTOM LINE: The Colorado Avalanche host the Anaheim Ducks after Nathan MacKinnon\u2019s two-goal game against the Washington Capitals in the Avalanche\u2019s 5-2 win.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado has a 20-1-3 record in home games and a 34-5-8 record overall. The Avalanche are 20-3-5 in games they have fewer penalties than their opponent.<\/p>\n<p>Anaheim is 25-21-3 overall and 10-13-2 in road games. The Ducks have conceded 175 goals while scoring 158 for a -17 scoring differential.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday\u2019s game is the second time these teams square off this season. The Avalanche won the last meeting 4-1.<\/p>\n<p>TOP PERFORMERS: Martin Necas has scored 22 goals with 37 assists for the Avalanche. Brock Nelson has 10 goals and five assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Cutter Gauthier has 22 goals and 20 assists for the Ducks. Mason McTavish has four goals and two assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>LAST 10 GAMES: Avalanche: 6-3-1, averaging 4.2 goals, 7.5 assists, 3.1 penalties and 6.8 penalty minutes while giving up 2.4 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p>Ducks: 4-5-1, averaging 2.8 goals, 3.7 assists, 4.8 penalties and 13.3 penalty minutes while giving up 3.3 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p>INJURIES: Avalanche: None listed.<\/p>\n<p>Ducks: None listed.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright<br \/>\n                        \u00a9\u00a02026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, written or redistributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anaheim Ducks (25-21-3, in the Pacific Division) vs. Colorado Avalanche (34-5-8, in the Central Division) Denver; Wednesday, 9&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-141320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}