Winnipeg Jets (30-30-12) @ Colorado Avalanche (48-13-10)\u00a0<\/p>\n
5 p.m.\u00a0MT |\u00a0Ball Arena\u00a0| Watch:\u00a0Altitude, Altitude+\u00a0| Listen: Altitude Sports Radio (92.5 FM)\u00a0<\/p>\n
After a 4-0-0 road trip, the Avalanche begins a three-game homestand\u00a0with a contest against the Winnipeg Jets on Saturday. This is the fourth and final regular-season meeting between the teams, as the Avalanche won on December 19th\u00a0and March 26th, while the Jets won on March 14th.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Latest Result (COL):\u00a0COL 3, WPG 2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Latest Result (WPG):\u00a0COL 3, WPG 2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Road Victory\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nathan MacKinnon scored a pair of goals and Mackenzie Blackwood stopped 22 of the 24 shots he faced to help the Avalanche defeat the Winnipeg Jets 3-2 at Canada Life Centre on Thursday.\u00a0Jack Drury notched his career-high ninth goal of the season and\u00a0Artturi Lehkonen was one of six Avs to record an assist in his return to the lineup. Winnipeg\u2019s Mark Scheifele\u00a0opened the scoring at 9:55 of the first period via a left-circle one-timer. Drury tied the game at 17:40 of the first period via a shot from the\u00a0doorstep, capitalizing on a rebound created by Sam Malinski\u2019s shot. The Avs\u00a0took a 2-1 lead on the power play at 13 seconds of the third period when\u00a0MacKinnon scored his 47th\u00a0goal of the season via a shot from the blue paint set up by Nazem Kadri\u2019s feed. MacKinnon doubled Colorado\u2019s lead off the rush with his 48th\u00a0goal of the season at\u00a03:55 of the third period via a redirect from the doorstep set up by Lehkonen\u2019s saucer pass. Scheifele made it 3-2\u00a0with his second goal of the game at 9:39 of the third period via a shot from the doorstep.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Leading the Way\u00a0
\nNate\u00a0the Great\u00a0<\/p>\n
MacKinnon leads the NHL in goals (48) while ranking third in points (117) and assists (69).\u00a0<\/p>\n
All Hail Cale\u00a0<\/p>\n
Among NHL defensemen, Cale Makar ranks third in points (71), tied for fourth in goals (20) and fifth in assists (51).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Marty Party\u00a0<\/p>\n
Martin Necas is seventh in the NHL in points (89).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Series History\u00a0<\/p>\n
In\u00a051\u00a0previous regular-season meetings against the Jets, the Avalanche has a record of\u00a024-22-5.\u00a0The teams have met once in the playoffs, with the Avalanche defeating the\u00a0Jets in five games in the 2024 Western Conference First Round.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Scoring Against the Jets\u00a0<\/p>\n
MacKinnon has posted 44 points (18g\/26a) in 46 regular-season games against the Jets and has recorded nine points (2g\/7a) in five playoff contests.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Necas has registered 10 points (7g\/3a) in 12 contests against Winnipeg.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Landeskog has recorded 29 points (15g\/14a) in 34 games against the Jets.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Making Moves in Manitoba\u00a0<\/p>\n
Scheifele leads the Jets in points (88), goals (34)\u00a0and assists (54).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kyle Connor ranks second on the Jets in points (82), goals (32)\u00a0and assists (50).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Gabriel Vilardi ranks third on the Jets in points (60) and goals (27) while ranking fourth in assists (33).\u00a0<\/p>\n
A Numbers Game\u00a0
\n31.3%\u00a0<\/p>\n
Since March 17th, Colorado\u2019s 31.3% mark on the power play is the seventh best in the NHL.\u00a0<\/p>\n
17\u00a0<\/p>\n
Necas\u2019 17 even-strength points since February 1st\u00a0are tied for the fourth most in the NHL.\u00a0<\/p>\n
.929\u00a0<\/p>\n
Colorado posted a .929 team save percentage on its recent four-game road trip from March 20th-March 26th.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Quote That Left a Mark\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I thought it was a hard-fought game. They (the Jets) came out checking hard, and we found a way to\u00a0kind of get\u00a0incrementally better as the game went on. We did some good things on the offensive side of it [and]\u00a0drew some penalties. It was a good effort from\u00a0our\u00a0guys.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
— Avalanche Head Coach Jared Bednar on Thursday\u2019s game against the Jets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Winnipeg Jets (30-30-12) @ Colorado Avalanche (48-13-10)\u00a0 5 p.m.\u00a0MT |\u00a0Ball Arena\u00a0| Watch:\u00a0Altitude, Altitude+\u00a0| Listen: Altitude Sports Radio (92.5…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527500,"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-527499","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\/116306963008517374","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527499","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=527499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}