Colorado Avalanche (40-10-9) @ Anaheim Ducks (33-23-3)<\/p>\n
8 p.m.\u00a0MT |\u00a0Honda Center\u00a0| Watch:\u00a0Altitude, Altitude+\u00a0| Listen: Altitude Sports Radio (92.5 FM)\u00a0<\/p>\n
After a win in Los Angeles on Monday, the Avalanche continues its road trip against the Anaheim Ducks on Tuesday.\u00a0This is the third and final regular-season meeting between the teams this season, as the Avalanche won 4-1 in Denver on November 11th\u00a0and the Ducks\u00a0were victorious by a 2-1 score in a shootout in Colorado on\u00a0January 21st.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Latest Result (COL):\u00a0COL 4, LAK 2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Latest Result (ANA):\u00a0CGY 2, ANA 3 (SO)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Two Points in the City of Angels<\/p>\n
Devon Toews\u2019\u00a0goal with 4:55\u00a0left in regulation held up as the game-winner as the Avalanche defeated the Los Angeles Kings 4-2 at Crypto.com Arena on Monday.\u00a0Martin Necas and\u00a0Gabriel Landeskog each posted a goal and\u00a0two\u00a0assists\u00a0while\u00a0Nathan MacKinnon\u00a0recorded\u00a0a pair of points (1g\/1a).\u00a0In net for Colorado in the franchise\u2019s 1,750th\u00a0regular-season\u00a0win, Mackenzie Blackwood stopped 19 of the 21 shots he\u00a0faced. MacKinnon opened the scoring at 4:27 of the first period with his 41st\u00a0goal of the\u00a0season via a one-timer from the slot set up by\u00a0Necas\u2019\u00a0cross-ice saucer pass. At 10:13 of the opening frame, Landeskog doubled Colorado\u2019s lead with his eighth goal of the season via a one-timer from the high slot\u00a0assisted\u00a0by Brent Burns\u2019 feed. Brandt Clarke put Los Angeles on the board with a power-play goal\u00a0at 17:20 of the first period via a shot from the point. At 8:32 of the second period, Angus Booth tied the game for the Kings via a redirection from the\u00a0left doorstep. Toews gave the Avs a 3-2 lead at 15:05 of the third period\u00a0with his second goal of the season via a shot from the slot\u00a0assisted\u00a0by MacKinnon\u2019s cross-ice pass. The Avalanche took a\u00a04-2 lead on the power play at 19:58 of the third period when Necas scored his 26th\u00a0goal of the season via an empty-net tally.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Leading the Way
\nNate the Great<\/p>\n
MacKinnon leads the NHL in goals (41), ranks second in points (99) and third in assists (58).\u00a0<\/p>\n
All Hail Cale<\/p>\n
Among NHL defensemen, Makar ranks third in points (61), tied for fourth in goals (17) and fifth in assists (44).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Marty Party<\/p>\n
Necas ranks eighth in the NHL in points (71).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Series History<\/p>\n
In 114\u00a0previous\u00a0regular-season games against the Ducks, the Avalanche has a record of 58-35-7-14.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Shootout on Sunday<\/p>\n
The Ducks defeated the Calgary Flames 3-2 in a shootout at Honda Center on Sunday. Calgary\u2019s Joel Farabee opened the scoring with a goal at 9:41 of the first period. In the second period, Anaheim\u2019s Cutter Gauthier tied the game at 11:14 before Yegor Sharangovich gave the Flames a 2-1 lead on the power play at 16:10.\u00a0Gauthier tied the game for Anaheim with a power-play goal at 10:41\u00a0of\u00a0the third period. In the shootout, Anaheim\u2019s Leo Carlsson and Calgary\u2019s Nazem Kadri scored in the first and second rounds, respectively, before Mason McTavish scored the game-winning goal for the Ducks in the third stanza.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Doing Work Against the Ducks<\/p>\n
MacKinnon has posted 47 points (17g\/30a) in 36 games against the Ducks.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In 18 contests against Anaheim, Makar\u00a0has recorded\u00a018 points (2g\/16a).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Landeskog has registered 32 points (13g\/19a) in 38 games against the Ducks.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Scoring in SoCal<\/p>\n
Gauthier leads the Ducks in goals (28) and points (52) while ranking fifth in assists (24).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jackson\u00a0LaCombe\u00a0leads the Ducks in assists (34) and is fifth in points (40).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Carlsson is tied for second on the Ducks in points (49) and goals (20) while ranking fourth in assists (29).\u00a0<\/p>\n
A Numbers Game
\n9<\/p>\n
Necas\u2019\u00a0nine points (4g\/5a) since February 25th\u00a0are the most in the NHL.\u00a0<\/p>\n
52.8%<\/p>\n
Colorado\u2019s 52.8% face-off percentage since January 1st\u00a0is tied for the fourth highest in the NHL.\u00a0<\/p>\n
2.55<\/p>\n
The Avalanche\u2019s 2.55\u00a0goals against\u00a0per game on the road are the third fewest in the NHL.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Quotes\u00a0That Left a Mark<\/p>\n
“I thought the MacKinnon line with Necas and Landeskog [was] outstanding. [They were] dangerous the whole night, right from the get-go. [They] didn’t really let up the entire night.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
— Avalanche Head Coach Jared Bednar on the Gabriel Landeskog-Nathan MacKinnon-Martin Necas line in\u00a0Monday\u2019s win against the Kings<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought we had good legs right from [the] get-go. And I thought we had a good start. Obviously, you get two quick ones (goals) pretty early in the first [period], and I thought we kept them to three-quarter ice for the most part for the first part of the game, really.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
— Gabriel Landeskog on the team\u2019s start in\u00a0Monday\u2019s win against the Kings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colorado Avalanche (40-10-9) @ Anaheim Ducks (33-23-3) 8 p.m.\u00a0MT |\u00a0Honda Center\u00a0| Watch:\u00a0Altitude, Altitude+\u00a0| Listen: Altitude Sports Radio (92.5…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":{"0":"post-202144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-headlines","10":"tag-anaheim-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202144","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=202144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}