Looking to extend their season-opening point streak to eight games, the Colorado Avalanche (5-0-2) will take on one of the top teams in the Eastern Conference, the Carolina Hurricanes (5-1-0). Puck drop is scheduled for 7:14 p.m. MT.
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Both teams will wear vintage jerseys, with the Avalanche donning Nordiques sweaters for the first time and the Hurricanes wearing Hartford Whalers white.
Brent Burns will be honored before puck drop for reaching 1,500 regular-season games. Burns played 246 games with the Hurricanes before signing with the Avs in July.
Neither team has had a successful power play despite their early-season success. Colorado is 30th in the league at 11.5% — one spot ahead of the 31st-place Hurricanes (8.5%).
The Avalanche are one of two teams without a regulation loss, and have a chance to extend that to eight games to start the season for just the third time in franchise history.
Carolina has just one loss, and could join the New Jersey Devils as the only teams with six wins in their first seven games.
Colorado’s Scott Wedgewood gets the nod once again, having played every game thus far.
Season Series
Oct. 23 vs Carolina Hurricanes
Jan. 3 at Carolina Hurricanes
Avalanche Injuries
Mackenzie Blackwood (undisclosed, week-to-week)
Logan O’Connor (hip, early November return)
Samuel Girard (upper body, week-to-week)
Joel Kiviranta (lower body, indefinitely)
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Projected Avalanche Lines (Subject to Change)
Artturi Lehkonen — Nathan MacKinnon — Martin Necas
Gabriel Landeskog — Brock Nelson — Valeri Nichushkin
Ross Colton — Jack Drury — Victor Olofsson
Parker Kelly — Zakhar Bardakov — Gavin Brindley
Devon Toews — Cale Makar
Josh Manson — Brent Burns
Ilya Solovyov — Sam Malinski
Scott Wedgewood
Trent Miner
Projected Starters (Subject to Change)
Expected: Scott Wedgewood (COL)
Expected: Frederik Andersen (CAR)
Upcoming Milestones
Gabriel Landeskog — needs 2 goals for 250
Artturi Lehkonen — needs 3 games for 600, needs 5 points for 300
Jack Drury — needs 8 games for 200
How to Watch
TV: Altitude TV
Radio: 92.5 FM
