The Colorado Avalanche (40-10-9) close out a back to back against the Anaheim Ducks (33-23-3). Puck drop is scheduled for 8:08 p.m. MT.<\/p>\n
Key Stories to Watch<\/p>\n
The Avalanche close out a stretch of five games in seven days out of the Olympic break tonight. They are 3-1-0 in the first four, and became the first team to reach 40 wins on Monday night following a 4-2 victory over the Los Angeles Kings.<\/p>\n
Colorado\u2019s lineup will look a little bit different, as Artturi Lehkonen suffered an upper-body injury in L.A. and will be out for some time. The Avs will likely call on Ross Colton to step into the top six in Lehkonen\u2019s absence. Jason Polin was called up to be the 12th forward.<\/p>\n
Anaheim is the fourth best team in the Western Conference in terms of both wins and points percentage. The Ducks are also the second-best home team in the West behind the Avs, going 20-8-1 at Honda Center. This is the only meeting between the two clubs in Anaheim.<\/p>\n
The Ducks have won five straight games and are 8-2-0 in their last 10. <\/p>\n
Lukas Dostal is getting the nod for the Ducks. In the last meeting between the two clubs, Colorado outshot Anaheim 41-16, but Dostal stood on his head to secure a 2-1 victory in the shootout. Scott Wedgewood likely gets the nod for the Avs on the second of a back-to-back.<\/p>\n
Season Series<\/p>\n
Nov. 11 vs Anaheim Ducks (W, 4-1)<\/p>\n
Jan. 21 vs Anaheim Ducks (L, 2-1 SO)<\/p>\n
March 3 at Anaheim Ducks<\/p>\n
Avalanche Injuries<\/p>\n
Logan O\u2019Connor (undisclosed, TBD)<\/p>\n
Joel Kiviranta (concussion, TBD)<\/p>\n
Artturi Lehkonen (upper body, TBD)<\/p>\n
Projected Avalanche Lines (Subject to Change)<\/p>\n
Gabriel Landeskog \u2014 Nathan MacKinnon \u2014 Martin Necas
Ross Colton \u2014 Brock Nelson \u2014 Valeri Nichushkin
Victor Olofsson \u2014 Jack Drury \u2014 Gavin Brindley
Zakhar Bardakov \u2014 Parker Kelly \u2014 Jason Polin<\/p>\n
Devon Toews \u2014 Cale Makar
Josh Manson \u2014 Brent Burns
Brett Kulak \u2014 Sam Malinski<\/p>\n
Scott Wedgewood
Mackenzie Blackwood<\/p>\n
Projected Starters (Subject to Change)<\/p>\n
Unconfirmed: Scott Wedgewood (COL)<\/p>\n
Confirmed: Lukas Dostal (ANA)<\/p>\n
Upcoming Milestones<\/p>\n
Gabriel Landeskog \u2014 needs 5 points for 600<\/p>\n
Martin Necas \u2014 needs 4 games for 500<\/p>\n
Devon Toews \u2014 needs 8 points for 300<\/p>\n
How to Watch<\/p>\n
TV: Altitude TV<\/p>\n
Radio: 92.5 FM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Colorado Avalanche (40-10-9) close out a back to back against the Anaheim Ducks (33-23-3). Puck drop is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,824,165,164,23797,92],"class_list":["post-202697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-ducks","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-avalanche","tag-colorado-avalanche"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202697","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=202697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}