{"id":108417,"date":"2026-01-07T01:18:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T01:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/108417\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T01:18:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T01:18:30","slug":"open-thread-colorado-avalanche-vs-tampa-bay-lightning-500-p-m-mt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/108417\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread: Colorado Avalanche vs. Tampa Bay Lightning (5:00 p.m. MT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">After falling 2-1 in regulation against the Florida Panthers on Sunday, the Colorado Avalanche wrap up their three-game road trip here tonight against the Tampa Bay Lightning. This will be the second and final regular-season matchup between these two teams, with Colorado having won the first game by a final score of 3-2.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado Avalanche (31-3-7)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Avs come into this game after losing just their third game in regulation all season, but the loss itself wasn\u2019t the main concern. Gabe Landeskog was unfortunately injured in this game, and it looks like he\u2019s going to miss some time with an injury. Hopefully, this Colorado team is able to bounce back in his absence here tonight and continue to rattle off wins as we make our way through the back half of this NHL season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Victor Olofsson &#8211; Nathan MacKinnon &#8211; Martin Necas<br \/>Artturi Lehkonen &#8211; Brock Nelson &#8211; Valeri Nichushkin<br \/>Ross Colton &#8211; Jack Drury &#8211; Gavin Brindley<br \/>Taylor Makar &#8211; Parker Kelly &#8211; Zakhar Bardakov<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Samuel Girard &#8211; Cale Makar<br \/>Josh Manson &#8211; Brent Burns<br \/>Ilya Solovyov &#8211; Sam Malinski<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Scott Wedgewood<br \/>Trent Miner<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay Lightning (25-13-3)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Lightning come into this game having won their last seven games in a row, and they look to make it eight straight against the Colorado team here today. They\u2019ve kind of had a quietly good season so far, and currently sit at second in the Atlantic Division, just one point behind the Detroit Red Wings. This team is incredibly skilled and can certainly hang with Colorado when it comes to scoring ability, so it\u2019s no wonder that they\u2019ve won seven games straight. Bouncing back from the Panthers loss against this Tampa Bay team certainly won\u2019t be easy for Colorado.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Gage Goncalves &#8211; Brayden Point &#8211; Nikita Kucherov<br \/>Brandon Hagel &#8211; Anthony Cirelli &#8211; Jake Guentzel<br \/>Zemgus Girgensons &#8211; Yanni Gourde &#8211; Pontus Holmberg<br \/>Nick Paul &#8211; Dominic James &#8211; Oliver Bjorkstrand<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">JJ Moser &#8211; Darren Raddysh<br \/>Charle-Edouard D\u2019astous &#8211; Erik Cernak<br \/>Declan Carlile &#8211; Maxwell Crozier<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Andrei Vasilevskiy<br \/>Jonas Johansson<\/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 falling 2-1 in regulation against the Florida Panthers on Sunday, the Colorado Avalanche wrap up their three-game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10412,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-108417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-open-threads","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}