Vancouver\u00a0Canucks\u00a0(21-44-8) @\u00a0Colorado Avalanche\u00a0(49-14-10)\u00a0<\/p>\n
6:30 p.m.\u00a0MT |\u00a0Ball Arena\u00a0| Watch:\u00a0Altitude, Altitude+\u00a0| Listen: Altitude Sports Radio (92.5 FM)\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Avalanche begins its April slate of games\u00a0with a contest against the Vancouver Canucks on Wednesday.\u00a0This game is a part of the Avalanche\u2019s Heritage Series, as the team will don its Quebec Nordiques Heritage uniforms. Wednesday\u2019s contest is the third and final regular-season meeting between the teams, as\u00a0the Avs won 5-4 in overtime in Vancouver on November 9th\u00a0and 3-1 in Denver on December 2nd.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Latest Result (COL):\u00a0CGY 2, COL 9\u00a0<\/p>\n
Latest Result (VAN):\u00a0VAN 2, VGK 4\u00a0<\/p>\n
An Avalanche of Goals\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nazem Kadri scored two of Colorado\u2019s nine goals on Monday as the Avalanche defeated the Calgary Flames 9-2 at Ball Arena.\u00a0Colorado received goals from eight different players while nine Avs posted multi-point games.\u00a0In net for the Colorado, Scott Wedgewood stopped\u00a027 of the 29 shots he faced. Drury opened the scoring for the Avs at 2:31 of the first period with his career-high 10th\u00a0goal of the season via a\u00a0bank\u00a0shot from\u00a0below the left goal line\u00a0off Flames goaltender Dustin Wolf. The Avalanche took a 2-0 lead on\u00a0a five-on-three\u00a0power play at 6:31 of the first period when Kadri scored his 15th\u00a0goal of the season via a shot from below the right circle set up by Martin\u00a0Necas\u2019\u00a0cross-crease feed.\u00a0Kadri gave the Avs a 3-0 lead on the power play\u00a0at 7:37 of the first period with his second goal of the game and 16th\u00a0of the season via a shot from the bottom of the right circle. Colorado took a 4-0 lead at 9:19 of the first period when Landeskog scored his 11th\u00a0goal of the season via\u00a0a backhand shot from the doorstep off the rush set up by Brock Nelson\u2019s feed. Parker Kelly made it 5-0 at 15:50\u00a0of\u00a0the first period with his\u00a018th\u00a0goal of the season via a net-front redirect on Cale Makar\u2019s left-point shot.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Brennan\u00a0Othmann\u00a0put the Flames on the board at 3:37 of the second period with a goal from the doorstep.\u00a0The Avs took a 6-1 lead on the power play at 19:25 of the middle frame when Nathan MacKinnon scored his 49th\u00a0goal of the season via a left-circle one-timer. Necas gave the Avs\u00a0a 7-1 lead at 6:24 of the third period with his 35th\u00a0goal of the season via a\u00a0snapshot from the right slot set up by MacKinnon\u2019s low-to-high feed.\u00a0Colorado made it an 8-1 game at 8:10 of the third period when Sam Malinski scored his fifth goal of the season via a backhand shot from the\u00a0doorstep off the rush set up by Kelly\u2019s feed. Calgary\u2019s Ryan Strome made it 8-2 with a goal from the doorstep at 12:53 of the third period.\u00a0Artturi Lehkonen gave the Avs a 9-2 lead at 16:48 of the third period with his 20th\u00a0goal of the season via a shot from the doorstep, capitalizing on a rebound off\u00a0the rush.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Leading the Way\u00a0
\nNate the Great\u00a0<\/p>\n
MacKinnon leads the NHL in goals (49) while ranking third in points (120) and assists (71).\u00a0<\/p>\n
All Hail Cale\u00a0<\/p>\n
Among NHL defensemen, Makar ranks third in points (75),\u00a0tied for fourth in goals (20) and fifth in assists (55).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Marty Party\u00a0<\/p>\n
Necas ranks tied for seventh in the NHL in points (92).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Series History\u00a0<\/p>\n
In 180\u00a0previous\u00a0regular-season games against the Canucks, the Avalanche\/Nordiques franchise has a record of 84-70-15-11.\u00a0The franchises have met twice in the playoffs, with the Avs winning the 1996 Western Conference Quarterfinal in six games and\u00a0the 2001 Western Conference Quartefinal in four contests.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Monday in Vegas\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Canucks lost 4-2 to the Vegas Golden Knights at T-Mobile Arena on Monday. Vancouver\u2019s Evander Kane scored the lone first-period goal at 12:19. Vegas\u2019 Rasmus Andersson tied the game at 7:48 of the second period before Brock Boeser gave the Canucks a 2-1 lead on the power play at 12:17 of the middle frame. The Golden Knights took a 3-2 second-period lead after goals from Shea Theodore at 17:17 and Reilly Smith at 18:34. Cole Smith gave Vegas a 4-2 lead at 18:50 of the third period with an\u00a0empty-net goal.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Contributing Offense Against the Canucks\u00a0<\/p>\n
MacKinnon has posted 36 points (13g\/23a) in 30 games against the Canucks.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In 14 contests against Vancouver, Makar has registered 18 points (3g\/15a).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nelson has recorded 19 points (11g\/8a) in 24 games against the Canucks.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Canucks\u2019 Scorers\u00a0<\/p>\n
Elias Pettersson leads the Canucks in points (46)\u00a0while ranking second in assists (31) and fourth in goals (15).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Boeser leads the Canucks in goals (18) while ranking third in points (39) and assists (21).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Filip Hronek leads the Canucks in assists (34) and ranks second on the team in points (42).\u00a0<\/p>\n
A Numbers Game\u00a0
\n4.5\u00a0<\/p>\n
Colorado\u2019s 4.5 goals per game since March 20th\u00a0lead the NHL.\u00a0<\/p>\n
24\u00a0<\/p>\n
Necas\u2019\u00a024 points (10g\/14a) in March were tied for the second most in the NHL.\u00a0<\/p>\n
120\u00a0<\/p>\n
Since the start of the 2000-01 campaign, MacKinnon is the fourth player to record multiple seasons of at least 120 points, joining Connor McDavid (4), Nikita Kucherov (4)\u00a0and Jaromir Jagr (2).\u00a0<\/p>\n
Quote That Left a Mark\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI think a guy like Sam Malinski,\u00a0he\u2019s\u00a0just using his legs a lot right now. Easy breakouts when\u00a0you\u2019re\u00a0on the ice with him. He can kind of be a one-man breakout and feed us with a lot of speed to go create offensive zone stuff. And\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0probably not\u00a0flashy, but\u00a0Kivy\u2019s\u00a0(Joel Kiviranta) game is just so rock\u00a0solid\u00a0and I could say the same about Jack (Drury) too. I think those three guys might get overlooked sometimes, but\u00a0they\u2019re\u00a0always going to do it the right way.\u00a0We\u2019re\u00a0very lucky\u00a0to have a lot of guys who\u00a0probably\u00a0aren\u2019t\u00a0going to be on the scoresheet every night, or\u00a0maybe not\u00a0producing well, but\u00a0they\u2019re\u00a0always going to do the right things. So,\u00a0we\u2019re\u00a0really lucky\u00a0to have guys like that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
— Parker Kelly on the play of his teammates in Monday\u2019s win against the Calgary Flames<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vancouver\u00a0Canucks\u00a0(21-44-8) @\u00a0Colorado Avalanche\u00a0(49-14-10)\u00a0 6:30 p.m.\u00a0MT |\u00a0Ball Arena\u00a0| Watch:\u00a0Altitude, Altitude+\u00a0| Listen: Altitude Sports Radio (92.5 FM)\u00a0 The Avalanche begins…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[895,26,5294,896,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-534557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-calgary-flames","8":"tag-calgary","9":"tag-calgary-flames","10":"tag-calgaryflames","11":"tag-flames","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116329128012441112","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534557","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=534557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}