{"id":203156,"date":"2026-03-04T02:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T02:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/203156\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T02:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T02:26:07","slug":"open-thread-colorado-avalanche-vs-anaheim-ducks-800-p-m-mt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/203156\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread: Colorado Avalanche vs. Anaheim Ducks (8:00 p.m. MT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">After winning 4-2 against the Los Angeles Kings yesterday, courtesy of a late third-period go-ahead goal from Devon Toews, the Colorado Avalanche are back at it again tonight as they take on the Anaheim Ducks on the second leg of a back-to-back. This will be the third and final regular-season game between these two teams.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado Avalanche (40-10-9)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Colorado kicked off their second back-to-back in about a week against the Kings yesterday. Colorado managed to build a two-goal lead early in the first period, but LA was able to come back and ultimately tie the game at 2-2. Devon Toews would be the one to give the Avs the lead back late in the third period, off a beautiful pass from Nathan MacKinnon to set him up. The other big piece of news during the game last night was, of course, Artturi Lehkonen going out during the game. He won\u2019t be playing tonight in Anaheim and is going to miss some time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Gabriel Landeskog &#8211; Nathan MacKinnon &#8211; Martin Necas<br \/>Parker Kelly &#8211; Brock Nelson &#8211; Valeri Nichushkin<br \/>Ross Colton &#8211; Jack Drury &#8211; Victor Olofsson<br \/>Jason Polin &#8211; Bardakov &#8211; Gavin Brindley<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Devon Toews &#8211; Cale Makar<br \/>Josh Manson &#8211; Brent Burns<br \/>Brett Kulak &#8211; Sam Malinski<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Scott Wedgewood<br \/>Mackenzie Blackwood<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Ducks come into this game off a 3-2 shootout win over the Calgary Flames on Sunday, and are currently locked in a battle for the top spot in the Pacific Division, sitting just one point behind the Vegas Golden Knights for that spot. The Ducks are an incredibly fun and talented team, with a phenomenal goaltender in Lukas Dostal. They\u2019ve shown that they can certainly be competitive, as they\u2019re competing for the top spot in the Pacific, and every point matters to this team at this point. Colorado is perfectly capable of beating this team, but it\u2019ll certainly be easier said than done.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Chris Kreider &#8211; Leo Carlsson &#8211; Cutter Gauthier<br \/>Jeffrey Viel &#8211; Mason McTavish &#8211; Beckett Sennecke<br \/>Alex Killorn &#8211; Ryan Poehling &#8211; Jansen Harkins<br \/>Ross Johnston &#8211; Tim Washe &#8211; Ian Moore<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Jackson LaCombe &#8211; Jacob Trouba<br \/>Olen Zellweger &#8211; Radko Gudas<br \/>Pavel Mintyukov &#8211; Drew Helleson<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Follow along in the comments below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After winning 4-2 against the Los Angeles Kings yesterday, courtesy of a late third-period go-ahead goal from Devon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,24340],"class_list":{"0":"post-203156","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","11":"tag-open-threads"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203156","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=203156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}