{"id":262135,"date":"2025-10-23T16:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T16:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/262135\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T16:53:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T16:53:11","slug":"avalanche-game-8-vs-carolina-hurricanes-nordiques-vs-whalers-lines-notes-how-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/262135\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche Game 8 vs Carolina Hurricanes: Nordiques vs Whalers! Lines, Notes &#038; How To Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradohockeynow.com\/2025\/10\/21\/the-aftermath-avalanche-earn-point-lose-in-ot-to-utah\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Aftermath: Avalanche Earn Point, Lose in OT to Utah<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Key Stories to Watch<\/p>\n<p>Both teams will wear vintage jerseys, with the Avalanche donning Nordiques sweaters for the first time and the Hurricanes wearing Hartford Whalers white.<br \/>\nBrent 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.<br \/>\nNeither team has had a successful power play despite their early-season success. Colorado is 30th in the league at 11.5% \u2014 one spot ahead of the 31st-place Hurricanes (8.5%).<br \/>\nThe 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.<br \/>\nCarolina has just one loss, and could join the New Jersey Devils as the only teams with six wins in their first seven games.<br \/>\nColorado\u2019s Scott Wedgewood gets the nod once again, having played every game thus far.<\/p>\n<p>Season Series<\/p>\n<p>Oct. 23 vs Carolina Hurricanes<br \/>\nJan. 3 at Carolina Hurricanes<\/p>\n<p>Avalanche Injuries<\/p>\n<p>Mackenzie Blackwood (undisclosed, week-to-week)<br \/>\nLogan O\u2019Connor (hip, early November return)<br \/>\nSamuel Girard (upper body, week-to-week)<br \/>\nJoel Kiviranta (lower body, indefinitely)<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradohockeynow.com\/2025\/10\/21\/avalanche-to-honor-brent-burns-milestone-thursday\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Avalanche to Honor Brent Burns\u2019 Milestone Thursday<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Projected Avalanche Lines (Subject to Change)<\/p>\n<p>Artturi Lehkonen \u2014 Nathan MacKinnon \u2014 Martin Necas<br \/>Gabriel Landeskog \u2014 Brock Nelson \u2014 Valeri Nichushkin<br \/>Ross Colton \u2014 Jack Drury \u2014 Victor Olofsson<br \/>Parker Kelly \u2014 Zakhar Bardakov \u2014 Gavin Brindley<\/p>\n<p>Devon Toews \u2014 Cale Makar<br \/>Josh Manson \u2014 Brent Burns<br \/>Ilya Solovyov \u2014 Sam Malinski<\/p>\n<p>Scott Wedgewood<br \/>Trent Miner<\/p>\n<p>Projected Starters (Subject to Change)<\/p>\n<p>Expected: Scott Wedgewood (COL)<br \/>\nExpected: Frederik Andersen (CAR)<\/p>\n<p>Upcoming Milestones<\/p>\n<p>Gabriel Landeskog \u2014 needs 2 goals for 250<br \/>\nArtturi Lehkonen \u2014 needs 3 games for 600, needs 5 points for 300<br \/>\nJack Drury \u2014 needs 8 games for 200<\/p>\n<p>How to Watch<\/p>\n<p>TV: Altitude TV<br \/>\nRadio: 92.5 FM<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/paypalme\/colhockeynow\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/CHNS-Tip-Jar.png\" alt=\"Contribute to CHN's travel and support local journalism!\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Looking to extend their season-opening point streak to eight games, the Colorado Avalanche (5-0-2) will take on one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5116],"tags":[193,1772,29,192,144,5277,58,2590,5,4,14130],"class_list":{"0":"post-262135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-colorado-avalanche","8":"tag-avalanche","9":"tag-brent-burns","10":"tag-carolina-hurricanes","11":"tag-colorado","12":"tag-colorado-avalanche","13":"tag-coloradoavalanche","14":"tag-featured","15":"tag-hartford-whalers","16":"tag-hockey","17":"tag-nhl","18":"tag-quebec-nordiques"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115424527003824833","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}