Colorado Avalanche (30-2-7, in the Central Division) vs. Carolina Hurricanes (24-13-3, in the Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n
Raleigh, North Carolina; Saturday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Colorado Avalanche visit the Carolina Hurricanes looking to continue a nine-game win streak.<\/p>\n
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Carolina is 24-13-3 overall and 13-7-1 at home. The Hurricanes have an 8-2-1 record in one-goal games.<\/p>\n
Colorado is 13-2-5 on the road and 30-2-7 overall. The Avalanche are 17-0-4 when they serve fewer penalty minutes than their opponent.<\/p>\n
The teams play Saturday for the second time this season. The Hurricanes won 5-4 in a shootout in the previous meeting.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Andrei Svechnikov has 11 goals and 19 assists for the Hurricanes. Sebastian Aho has seven goals and seven assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
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Nathan MacKinnon has 34 goals and 36 assists for the Avalanche. Brock Nelson has scored six goals and added five assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Hurricanes: 5-4-1, averaging 3.2 goals, 5.6 assists, three penalties and 6.2 penalty minutes while giving up 3.4 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Avalanche: 9-0-1, averaging 4.3 goals, 7.9 assists, 3.3 penalties and 6.9 penalty minutes while giving up 2.1 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Hurricanes: None listed.<\/p>\n
Avalanche: None listed.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colorado Avalanche (30-2-7, in the Central Division) vs. Carolina Hurricanes (24-13-3, in the Metropolitan Division) Raleigh, North Carolina;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5107],"tags":[1742,193,1034,194,29,5176,1843,144,5,195,2218,517,4,2668,3650,5813,1174],"class_list":{"0":"post-386412","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-hurricanes","8":"tag-andrei-svechnikov","9":"tag-avalanche","10":"tag-brock-nelson","11":"tag-carolina","12":"tag-carolina-hurricanes","13":"tag-carolinahurricanes","14":"tag-central-division","15":"tag-colorado-avalanche","16":"tag-hockey","17":"tag-hurricanes","18":"tag-metropolitan-division","19":"tag-nathan-mackinnon","20":"tag-nhl","21":"tag-north-carolina","22":"tag-penalty-minutes","23":"tag-raleigh","24":"tag-sebastian-aho"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115825268786109188","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386412","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=386412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}