{"id":532706,"date":"2026-03-31T11:43:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/532706\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T11:43:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:43:19","slug":"canucks-take-6-game-losing-streak-into-matchup-with-the-avalanche-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/532706\/","title":{"rendered":"Canucks take 6-game losing streak into matchup with the Avalanche"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vancouver Canucks<\/a> (21-44-8, in the Pacific Division) vs. Colorado Avalanche<\/a> (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<\/a> led the Avalanche with two goals.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: MacKinnon has 49 goals and 71 assists for the Avalanche. Martin Necas<\/a> has six goals and nine assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Filip Hronek<\/a> has eight goals and 33 assists for the Canucks. Marco Rossi<\/a> 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<\/a>: day to day (upper body).<\/p>\n

Canucks: Thatcher Demko: out for season (hip), Derek Forbort: out (undisclosed), Filip Chytil: out (face).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/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":117285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5116],"tags":[193,192,144,5277,56683,4238,5,1486,513,517,285,4,1337,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-532706","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-event_preview","13":"tag-filip-hronek","14":"tag-hockey","15":"tag-marco-rossi","16":"tag-martin-necas","17":"tag-nathan-mackinnon","18":"tag-national-hockey-league","19":"tag-nhl","20":"tag-nicolas-roy","21":"tag-vancouver-canucks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116323615181510865","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532706","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=532706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}