Colorado Avalanche (35-8-9, in the Central Division) vs. Detroit Red Wings (32-17-6, in the Atlantic Division)<\/p>\n
Detroit; Saturday, 1 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Detroit Red Wings host the Colorado Avalanche after Alex DeBrincat scored two goals in the Red Wings’ 4-3 shootout loss to the Washington Capitals.<\/p>\n
Detroit is 18-9-2 in home games and 32-17-6 overall. The Red Wings have a +six scoring differential, with 169 total goals scored and 163 given up.<\/p>\n
Colorado has a 35-8-9 record overall and a 15-6-5 record on the road. The Avalanche rank first in the league with 202 total goals (averaging 3.9 per game).<\/p>\n
The matchup Saturday is the first meeting this season between the two clubs.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Lucas Raymond has scored 18 goals with 40 assists for the Red Wings. DeBrincat has eight goals and six assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Martin Necas has 22 goals and 39 assists for the Avalanche. Nathan MacKinnon has three goals and 11 assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Red Wings: 6-2-2, averaging three goals, 5.1 assists, 2.6 penalties and 5.2 penalty minutes while giving up 2.1 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Avalanche: 4-4-2, averaging 3.6 goals, 6.5 assists, 2.8 penalties and 6.2 penalty minutes while giving up 3.1 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Red Wings: 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colorado Avalanche (35-8-9, in the Central Division) vs. Detroit Red Wings (32-17-6, in the Atlantic Division) Detroit; Saturday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5116],"tags":[53555,301,193,192,144,5277,5,4,292,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-436113","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-colorado-avalanche","8":"tag-53555","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-avalanche","11":"tag-colorado","12":"tag-colorado-avalanche","13":"tag-coloradoavalanche","14":"tag-hockey","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-nhl-hockey","17":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115983746622838345","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436113","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=436113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}