Vancouver Canucks (21-44-8, in the Pacific Division) vs. Colorado Avalanche (49-14-10, in the Central Division)<\/p>\n
Denver; Wednesday, 8:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Vancouver Canucks are looking to end a six-game losing streak with a win over the Colorado Avalanche.<\/p>\n
Colorado is 24-7-5 in home games and 49-14-10 overall. The Avalanche are 17-2-5 in games they score one or more power-play goals.<\/p>\n
Vancouver has a 21-44-8 record overall and a 13-19-3 record on the road. The Canucks have a 7-16-3 record in games their opponents commit fewer penalties.<\/p>\n
Wednesday’s game is the third time these teams meet this season. The Avalanche won 3-1 in the last matchup. Nathan MacKinnon led the Avalanche with two goals.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: MacKinnon has 49 goals and 71 assists for the Avalanche. Martin Necas has six goals and nine assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Filip Hronek has eight goals and 33 assists for the Canucks. Marco Rossi has scored three goals and added seven assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Avalanche: 6-3-1, averaging 3.6 goals, 6.3 assists, 3.4 penalties and 7.6 penalty minutes while giving up 2.3 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Canucks: 2-8-0, averaging 2.1 goals, 3.7 assists, 3.5 penalties and 11.9 penalty minutes while giving up 3.6 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Avalanche: Cale Makar: day to day (upper body), Nicolas Roy: day to day (upper body).<\/p>\n
Canucks: Thatcher Demko: out for season (hip), Derek Forbort: out (undisclosed), Filip Chytil: out (face).<\/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":"Vancouver Canucks (21-44-8, in the Pacific Division) vs. Colorado Avalanche (49-14-10, in the Central Division) Denver; Wednesday, 8:30…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5116],"tags":[61271,301,193,192,144,5277,5,4,292,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-532633","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-colorado-avalanche","8":"tag-61271","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\/116323438087166768","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532633","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=532633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532633\/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=532633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}