San Jose Sharks (27-23-4, in the Pacific Division) vs. Colorado Avalanche (36-9-9, in the Central Division)<\/p>\n
Denver; Wednesday, 9 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The San Jose Sharks enter the matchup with the Colorado Avalanche as losers of three in a row.<\/p>\n
Colorado is 20-3-4 in home games and 36-9-9 overall. The Avalanche are 11-0-4 when scoring a power-play goal.<\/p>\n
San Jose has gone 13-14-1 in road games and 27-23-4 overall. The Sharks have a 13-5-3 record in one-goal games.<\/p>\n
The teams match up Wednesday for the third time this season. The Avalanche won 6-0 in the previous matchup.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Martin Necas has 22 goals and 39 assists for the Avalanche. Brock Nelson has seven goals and four assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Macklin Celebrini has 28 goals and 53 assists for the Sharks. Will Smith has scored five goals with five assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Avalanche: 3-5-2, averaging 2.9 goals, 4.9 assists, 2.7 penalties and 6.2 penalty minutes while giving up three goals per game.<\/p>\n
Sharks: 4-5-1, averaging 2.8 goals, 4.9 assists, 3.9 penalties and 9.2 penalty minutes while giving up 3.1 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Avalanche: None listed.<\/p>\n
Sharks: None listed.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Jose Sharks (27-23-4, in the Pacific Division) vs. Colorado Avalanche (36-9-9, in the Central Division) Denver; Wednesday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[78466,847,1489,88,90,89,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-161748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-78466","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-nhl-hockey","11":"tag-san-jose","12":"tag-san-jose-headlines","13":"tag-san-jose-news","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161748","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=161748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}