{"id":141333,"date":"2026-01-20T09:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T09:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/141333\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T09:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T09:51:08","slug":"avalanche-host-the-ducks-after-mackinnons-2-goal-game-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/141333\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche host the Ducks after MacKinnon’s 2-goal game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anaheim Ducks<\/a> (25-21-3, in the Pacific Division) vs. Colorado Avalanche<\/a> (34-5-8, in the Central Division)<\/p>\n

Denver; Wednesday, 9 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Colorado Avalanche host the Anaheim Ducks after Nathan MacKinnon’s<\/a> two-goal game against the Washington Capitals<\/a> in the Avalanche’s 5-2 win.<\/p>\n

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

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

Wednesday’s game is the second time these teams square off this season. The Avalanche won the last meeting 4-1.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Martin Necas<\/a> has scored 22 goals with 37 assists for the Avalanche. Brock Nelson<\/a> has 10 goals and five assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Cutter Gauthier<\/a> has 22 goals and 20 assists for the Ducks. Mason McTavish<\/a> has four goals and two assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

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

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

INJURIES: Avalanche: None listed.<\/p>\n

Ducks: None listed.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/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…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-141333","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\/141333","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=141333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}