Colorado Avalanche (50-16-10, in the Central Division) vs. St. Louis Blues (33-31-12, in the Central Division)<\/p>\n
St. Louis; Tuesday, 8 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The St. Louis Blues host the Colorado Avalanche after Robert Thomas’ hat trick against the Colorado Avalanche in the Blues’ 3-2 win.<\/p>\n
St. Louis has a 33-31-12 record overall and a 7-14-0 record in Central Division play. The Blues have conceded 234 goals while scoring 204 for a -30 scoring differential.<\/p>\n
Colorado has a 50-16-10 record overall and a 15-5-5 record in Central Division games. The Avalanche have gone 45-6-6 in games they score three or more goals.<\/p>\n
Tuesday’s game is the third time these teams match up this season. The Blues won 3-2 in the previous meeting. Thomas led the Blues with three goals.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Thomas has scored 21 goals with 35 assists for the Blues. Justin Faulk has nine assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Nathan MacKinnon has 51 goals and 71 assists for the Avalanche. Parker Kelly has five goals and three assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Blues: 6-2-2, averaging three goals, 5.3 assists, 3.9 penalties and 8.9 penalty minutes while giving up 1.8 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Avalanche: 6-3-1, averaging 3.8 goals, 6.4 assists, 3.6 penalties and 7.7 penalty minutes while giving up 2.3 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Blues: Tyler Tucker: out (lower-body).<\/p>\n
Avalanche: Valeri Nichushkin: day to day (upper body), Cale Makar: out (upper body), Nicolas Roy: out (upper body).<\/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":"Colorado Avalanche (50-16-10, in the Central Division) vs. St. Louis Blues (33-31-12, in the Central Division) St. Louis;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5120],"tags":[61998,301,71,5,4,292,43,534,84,5285,5284],"class_list":{"0":"post-543558","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-louis-blues","8":"tag-61998","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-blues","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-nhl-hockey","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-st-louis","16":"tag-st-louis-blues","17":"tag-stlouis","18":"tag-stlouisblues"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116357164243870874","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543558","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=543558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543558\/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=543558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}