{"id":541855,"date":"2026-04-05T10:19:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T10:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/541855\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T10:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T10:19:12","slug":"blues-visit-the-avalanche-after-holloways-2-goal-game-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/541855\/","title":{"rendered":"Blues visit the Avalanche after Holloway’s 2-goal game"},"content":{"rendered":"

St. Louis Blues<\/a> (32-31-12, in the Central Division) vs. Colorado Avalanche<\/a> (50-15-10, in the Central Division)<\/p>\n

Denver; Sunday, 9:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Avalanche -237, Blues +193; over\/under is 6<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The St. Louis Blues visit the Colorado Avalanche after Dylan Holloway’s<\/a> two-goal game against the Anaheim Ducks<\/a> in the Blues’ 6-2 win.<\/p>\n

Colorado has gone 50-15-10 overall with a 15-4-5 record in Central Division games. The Avalanche have given up 187 goals while scoring 282 for a +95 scoring differential.<\/p>\n

St. Louis is 32-31-12 overall and 6-14-0 against the Central Division. The Blues have a -31 scoring differential, with 201 total goals scored and 232 conceded.<\/p>\n

Sunday’s game is the second time these teams meet this season. The Avalanche won the last meeting 6-1. Valeri Nichushkin<\/a> scored three goals in the win.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Nathan MacKinnon<\/a> has 51 goals and 71 assists for the Avalanche. Martin Necas<\/a> has five goals and nine assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Robert Thomas<\/a> has 18 goals and 35 assists for the Blues. Holloway has scored six goals and added five assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Avalanche: 6-3-1, averaging 3.8 goals, 6.4 assists, 3.7 penalties and 8.2 penalty minutes while giving up 2.7 goals per game.<\/p>\n

Blues: 6-2-2, averaging three goals, 5.1 assists, 3.9 penalties and 8.9 penalty minutes while giving up 1.8 goals per game.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Avalanche: Cale Makar: out (upper body), Nicolas Roy<\/a>: out (upper body).<\/p>\n

Blues: Tyler Tucker<\/a>: out (lower-body).<\/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":"St. Louis Blues (32-31-12, in the Central Division) vs. Colorado Avalanche (50-15-10, in the Central Division) Denver; Sunday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[2210,233,5292,144,1739,1296,56683,5,513,517,285,4,1337,1482,84,1822,3922],"class_list":{"0":"post-541855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim-ducks","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-ducks","10":"tag-anaheimducks","11":"tag-colorado-avalanche","12":"tag-ducks","13":"tag-dylan-holloway","14":"tag-event_preview","15":"tag-hockey","16":"tag-martin-necas","17":"tag-nathan-mackinnon","18":"tag-national-hockey-league","19":"tag-nhl","20":"tag-nicolas-roy","21":"tag-robert-thomas","22":"tag-st-louis-blues","23":"tag-tyler-tucker","24":"tag-valeri-nichushkin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116351597153265208","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541855","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=541855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541855\/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=541855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}