{"id":277599,"date":"2025-10-31T19:25:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T19:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/277599\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T19:25:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T19:25:09","slug":"open-thread-colorado-avalanche-vs-vegas-golden-knights-200-p-m-mt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/277599\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread: Colorado Avalanche vs. Vegas Golden Knights (2:00 p.m. MT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Colorado finally got back into the win column on Tuesday night against the New Jersey Devils, winning by a final score of 8-4. Today, they look to keep that momentum rolling against the Vegas Golden Knights, as they faceoff against them in a Halloween matinee matchup. This will be the first of three regular-season matchups between these two teams.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado Avalanche (6-1-4)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">After losing four games in a row, the Avs finally got back in the win column against the New Jersey Devils. Outside of the five minute stretch in the second period where Colorado allowed the Devils to score four unanswered goals to pull within one, everything seemed to go right for the Avs in that game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The perhaps one of the biggest positives to come out of that game, the powerplay finally started to actually convert, and did so at a very high rate during that game. Colorado ended up going 4\/6 on the man-advantage, and while you\u2019re certainly not going to get that conversion rate every single night, it felt like Colorado desperately needed a game like that, after how bad the powerplay had been at converting before that game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Artturi Lehkonen &#8211; Nathan MacKinnon &#8211; Martin Necas<br \/>Valeri Nichushkin &#8211; Brock Nelson &#8211; Ross Colton<br \/>Gabriel Landeskog &#8211; Jack Drury &#8211; Victor Olofsson<br \/>Parker Kelly &#8211; Zakhar 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 \/>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 \/>Mackenzie Blackwood<\/p>\n<p>Vegas Golden Knights (6-1-3)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Golden Knights have been sort of quietly rolling along to start this season, and have found themselves holding the first place spot in the Pacific Division. They will be looking to get-right in this game, as they are coming off of a 3-0 loss against the Florida Panthers, which saw the Golden Knights get shutout. It would be unreasonable to expect that to happen again, especially with all the talent that this Golden Knights team has on this roster. This is not a team that is likely to roll over and make it easy on the Avs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Alexander Holtz &#8211; Jack Eichel &#8211; Ivan Barbashev<br \/>Pavel Dorofeyev &#8211; Tomas Hertl &#8211; Mitch Marner<br \/>Reilly Smith &#8211; William Karlsson &#8211; Brandon Saad<br \/>Cole Reinhardt &#8211; Brett Howden &#8211; Keegan Kolesar<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Brayden McNabb &#8211; Shea Theodore<br \/>Ben Hutton &#8211; Zach Whitecloud<br \/>Jeremy Lauzon &#8211; Kaedan Korczak<\/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":"Colorado finally got back into the win column on Tuesday night against the New Jersey Devils, winning by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5109],"tags":[201,5,576,151,5185,5184,4,1346],"class_list":{"0":"post-277599","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-jersey-devils","8":"tag-devils","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-new-jersey","11":"tag-new-jersey-devils","12":"tag-newjersey","13":"tag-newjerseydevils","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-open-threads"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115470422780756769","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277599","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=277599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}