Colorado Avalanche (46-13-10, in the Central Division) vs. Pittsburgh Penguins (35-19-16, in the Metropolitan Division)<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh; Tuesday, 7 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Colorado Avalanche visit the Pittsburgh Penguins after the Avalanche beat the Washington Capitals 3-2 in overtime.<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh is 17-10-8 at home and 35-19-16 overall. The Penguins have allowed 209 goals while scoring 239 for a +30 scoring differential.<\/p>\n
Colorado has a 46-13-10 record overall and a 23-7-5 record in road games. The Avalanche have a 42-5-6 record when scoring at least three goals.<\/p>\n
The teams match up Tuesday for the second time this season. The Penguins won 7-2 in the previous meeting. Evgeni Malkin led the Penguins with two goals.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Anthony Mantha has scored 26 goals with 27 assists for the Penguins. Bryan Rust has six goals and seven assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Cale Makar has 20 goals and 50 assists for the Avalanche. Martin Necas has six goals and nine assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Penguins: 4-3-3, averaging 3.6 goals, 6.3 assists, 4.5 penalties and 10.7 penalty minutes while giving up 3.9 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Avalanche: 6-3-1, averaging three goals, 5.1 assists, 3.6 penalties and 8.9 penalty minutes while giving up 2.5 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Penguins: Kevin Hayes: day to day (upper-body), Filip Hallander: out (leg), Blake Lizotte: out (upper-body), Ryan Shea: day to day (upper-body).<\/p>\n
Avalanche: Ross Colton: day to day (upper body), Artturi Lehkonen: out (upper-body), Logan O’Connor: out (hip).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The Associated Press Colorado Avalanche (46-13-10, in the Central Division) vs. Pittsburgh Penguins (35-19-16, in the Metropolitan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5116],"tags":[193,192,144,5277,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-519502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-colorado-avalanche","8":"tag-avalanche","9":"tag-colorado","10":"tag-colorado-avalanche","11":"tag-coloradoavalanche","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116281886875993837","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519502","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=519502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}