Colorado Avalanche (31-3-7, in the Central Division) vs. Tampa Bay Lightning (25-13-3, in the Atlantic Division)<\/p>\n
Tampa, Florida; Tuesday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Tampa Bay Lightning host the Colorado Avalanche after Darren Raddysh recorded a hat trick in the Lightning’s 7-3 win over the San Jose Sharks.<\/p>\n
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Tampa Bay has an 11-9-0 record at home and a 25-13-3 record overall. The Lightning are third in league play serving 13.3 penalty minutes per game.<\/p>\n
Colorado has a 31-3-7 record overall and a 14-3-5 record on the road. The Avalanche have scored 164 total goals (4.0 per game) to lead the NHL.<\/p>\n
The teams meet Tuesday for the second time this season. The Avalanche won the last meeting 3-2. Victor Olofsson scored two goals in the win.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Jake Guentzel has scored 18 goals with 25 assists for the Lightning. Nikita Kucherov has seven goals and 12 assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
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Nathan MacKinnon has 35 goals and 39 assists for the Avalanche. Brock Nelson has scored six goals and added six assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Lightning: 7-2-1, averaging 3.9 goals, 7.2 assists, 6.6 penalties and 17.8 penalty minutes while giving up 2.9 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Avalanche: 9-1-0, averaging four goals, seven assists, 3.5 penalties and 7.3 penalty minutes while giving up 2.1 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Lightning: 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 (31-3-7, in the Central Division) vs. Tampa Bay Lightning (25-13-3, in the Atlantic Division) Tampa, Florida;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5105],"tags":[2216,193,1034,1843,144,2580,62,5,1331,189,517,4,1335,3650,168,187,540,92,5168,5167,3699],"class_list":{"0":"post-391627","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-lightning","8":"tag-atlantic-division","9":"tag-avalanche","10":"tag-brock-nelson","11":"tag-central-division","12":"tag-colorado-avalanche","13":"tag-darren-raddysh","14":"tag-florida","15":"tag-hockey","16":"tag-jake-guentzel","17":"tag-lightning","18":"tag-nathan-mackinnon","19":"tag-nhl","20":"tag-nikita-kucherov","21":"tag-penalty-minutes","22":"tag-san-jose-sharks","23":"tag-tampa","24":"tag-tampa-bay","25":"tag-tampa-bay-lightning","26":"tag-tampabay","27":"tag-tampabaylightning","28":"tag-victor-olofsson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115841897869008241","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391627","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=391627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391627\/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=391627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}