The Colorado Avalanche and Utah Mammoth will meet for the third time this season tonight, this time at Ball Arena. The home of the Avalanche has already seen a ton of wins this season, and it\u2019s not even 2026 yet. The Mammoth come in having just beaten the Jets in overtime, and Colorado is following up on a 5-1 beatdown of the Minnesota Wild. Will the boys in burgundy and blue play like Santa is watching, or do the Mammoth plan on stealing Christmas?<\/p>\n
Colorado Avalanche: 26-2-7<\/p>\n
The Opponent: Utah Mammoth 18-17-3<\/p>\n
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Time: 7:00 p.m. MT<\/p>\n
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Colorado Avalanche<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t think I\u2019m being irresponsible as a journalist if I keep the Avalanche portion of this pregame brief. What\u2019s happening in Colorado is simple. They are winning games everywhich way and against all kinds of opponents, and it\u2019s largely been thanks to an incredible start for Nathan MacKinnon and Cale Makar. Both of which seem poised to add to their trophy cases.<\/p>\n
Projected Lineup:<\/p>\n
Artturi Lehkonen<\/a> \u2014 Nathan MacKinnon<\/a> \u2014 Martin Necas<\/a> Advertisement<\/p>\n Devon Toews<\/a> \u2014 Cale Makar<\/a> Scott Wedgewood Utah Mammoth<\/p>\n Utah saw Clayton Keller notching the game-winning overtime goal against the Winnipeg Jets, who are off to a slow start of their own without MVP goalie Connor Hellebuyck. Still coming back and winning a game in OT takes some doing, and against a division opponent, the one point really does matter.<\/p>\n It feels like forever ago, but the Mammoth did play the Avalanche quite well in the home opener back in October and will hope to replicate that performance, though with a different outcome.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Projected Lineup:<\/p>\n Clayton Keller<\/a> \u2014 Nick Schmaltz<\/a> \u2014 JJ Peterka<\/a> Mikhail Sergachev<\/a> \u2014 Sean Durzi<\/a> Karel Vejmelka Follow along in the comments below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Colorado Avalanche and Utah Mammoth will meet for the third time this season tonight, this time at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5116],"tags":[48698,2320,193,3668,1772,1034,1116,1518,192,144,5277,1171,1543,1519,7,18209,5,9110,515,7040,3751,1036,1520,1544,1521,10078,8423,1123,4296,1255,38,90,517,4,6881,5619,6295,1351,1340,2565,1524,3154,3922,3699,18],"class_list":{"0":"post-374828","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-colorado-avalanche","8":"tag-altitude-sports-radio","9":"tag-artturi-lehkonen","10":"tag-avalanche","11":"tag-barrett-hayton","12":"tag-brent-burns","13":"tag-brock-nelson","14":"tag-cale-makar","15":"tag-clayton-keller","16":"tag-colorado","17":"tag-colorado-avalanche","18":"tag-coloradoavalanche","19":"tag-connor-hellebuyck","20":"tag-devon-toews","21":"tag-dylan-guenther","22":"tag-gabriel-landeskog","23":"tag-gavin-brindley","24":"tag-hockey","25":"tag-ian-cole","26":"tag-jack-drury","27":"tag-jack-mcbain","28":"tag-jj-peterka","29":"tag-joel-kiviranta","30":"tag-john-marino","31":"tag-josh-manson","32":"tag-karel-vejmelka","33":"tag-kevin-stenlund","34":"tag-lawson-crouse","35":"tag-mackenzie-blackwood","36":"tag-michael-carcone","37":"tag-mikhail-sergachev","38":"tag-minnesota-wild","39":"tag-nate-schmidt","40":"tag-nathan-mackinnon","41":"tag-nhl","42":"tag-nick-desimone","43":"tag-nick-schmaltz","44":"tag-parker-kelly","45":"tag-ross-colton","46":"tag-samuel-girard","47":"tag-scott-wedgewood","48":"tag-sean-durzi","49":"tag-utah-mammoth","50":"tag-valeri-nichushkin","51":"tag-victor-olofsson","52":"tag-winnipeg-jets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374828","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=374828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Victor Olofsson<\/a> \u2014 Ross Colton<\/a> \u2014 Gavin Brindley<\/a>
Parker Kelly<\/a> \u2014 Jack Drury<\/a> \u2014 Joel Kiviranta<\/a><\/p>\n
Josh Manson<\/a> \u2014 Brent Burns<\/a>
Samuel Girard<\/a> \u2014 Sam Malinsk<\/a><\/p>\n
MacKenzie Blackwood<\/p>\n
Lawson Crouse<\/a> \u2014 Barrett Hayton<\/a> \u2014 Dylan Guenther<\/a>
Daniil But<\/a> \u2014 Jack McBain<\/a> \u2014 Michael Carcone<\/a>
Liam O\u2019Brien<\/a> \u2014 Kevin Stenlund<\/a> \u2014 Alex Kerfoot<\/a><\/p>\n
Nate Schmidt<\/a> \u2014 John Marino<\/a>
Ian Cole<\/a> \u2014 Nick DeSimone<\/a><\/p>\n
Vitek Vanecek<\/p>\n