To cap off a long and grueling road trip which has seen the beloved Colorado Avalanche go an impressive 3-0, the squad makes one last stop in Winnipeg in hopes of avenging their disappointing 3-1 loss against the Jets less than two weeks ago.<\/p>\n
These two teams will become quite familiar with each other this month with another rematch still to come at Ball Arena on Saturday night in what the NHL has deemed a needed home-and-home series between these two Central Division teams. Maybe the league envisioned more intrigue with three games between these clubs in the month of March but Winnipeg currently sits firmly out of the playoff picture at this juncture.<\/p>\n
Through the last week, Colorado has restored a healthy seven-point lead over the Dallas Stars \u2014 and the rest of the league \u2014 so the focus now for this squad as they conclude the final month of the regular season is health. Against the Pittsburgh Penguins, the Avalanche received the services of Logan O\u2019Connor for the first time in the 2025-26 season as well as Ross Colton\u2019s return to the lineup. Of course there had to be a sacrifice so Nicolas Roy was a surprise late scratch with an upper-body injury. It remains to be seen if Roy can participate in this contest or if he must sit out a little longer.<\/p>\n
Forwards:
Gabe Landeskog – Nathan MacKinnon – Martin Ne\u010das
Ross Colton – Brock Nelson – Valeri Nichushkin
Parker Kelly – Nazem Kadri – Logan O\u2019Connor
Zakhar Bardakov – Jack Drury – Joel Kiviranta<\/p>\n
Defense:
Brett Kulak – Cale Makar
Devon Toews – Sam Malinski
Josh Manson – Brent Burns<\/p>\n
Between the Pipes:
Mackenzie Blackwood
Scott Wedgewood<\/p>\n
The men from Manitoba enjoyed a big 4-1 win over the Vegas Golden Knights on Tuesday night but have been inconsistent going 5-3-2 over their last 10 games and haven\u2019t made much progress in the Western Conference standings. In theory Winnipeg is still in the playoff hunt with 72 points and are just five points back of a wild card spot but would need to climb over three teams to do so. The Jets still could get hot at the right time and need to start with this home-and-home against Colorado, which will be a tough task.<\/p>\n
Forwards:
Kyle Connor – Mark Scheifele – Alex Iafallo
Cole Perfetti – Adam Lowry – Gabe Vilardi
Gustav Nyquist – Jonathan Toews – Isak Ros\u00e9n
Cole Koepke – Morgan Barron – Brad Lambert<\/p>\n
Defense:
Josh Morrissey – Neal Pionk
Dylan Samberg – Elias Salomonsson
Haydn Fleury – Jacob Bryson<\/p>\n
Between the Pipes:
Connor Hellebuyck
Eric Comrie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To cap off a long and grueling road trip which has seen the beloved Colorado Avalanche go an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5116],"tags":[193,192,144,29254,3597,5277,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-523967","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-colorado-avalanche-game-coverage","12":"tag-colorado-avalanche-previews","13":"tag-coloradoavalanche","14":"tag-hockey","15":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116296176713278805","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523967","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=523967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}