{"id":547134,"date":"2026-04-08T09:53:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T09:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/547134\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T09:53:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T09:53:15","slug":"avalanche-host-the-flames-after-nichushkins-2-goal-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/547134\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche host the Flames after Nichushkin’s 2-goal game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Calgary Flames<\/a> (32-36-9, in the Pacific Division) vs. Colorado Avalanche<\/a> (51-16-10, in the Central Division)<\/p>\n

Denver; Thursday, 9 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Colorado Avalanche host the Calgary Flames after Valeri Nichushkin<\/a> scored two goals in the Avalanche’s 3-1 win against the St. Louis Blues<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Colorado has a 51-16-10 record overall and a 24-9-5 record in home games. The Avalanche have gone 46-6-6 when scoring at least three goals.<\/p>\n

Calgary has a 32-36-9 record overall and an 11-24-4 record on the road. The Flames have a 13-18-5 record in games their opponents serve fewer penalty minutes.<\/p>\n

Thursday’s game is the second meeting between these teams this season. The Avalanche won 9-2 in the previous matchup. Nazem Kadri<\/a> led the Avalanche with two goals.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Nathan MacKinnon<\/a> has scored 51 goals with 72 assists for the Avalanche. Martin Necas<\/a> has six goals and eight assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Morgan Frost<\/a> has 21 goals and 20 assists for the Flames. Ryan Strome<\/a> has scored four goals and added three assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Avalanche: 7-3-0, averaging four goals, 6.7 assists, 3.6 penalties and 7.7 penalty minutes while giving up 2.3 goals per game.<\/p>\n

Flames: 6-2-2, averaging 3.3 goals, 5.7 assists, 3.8 penalties and 8.1 penalty minutes while giving up 3.5 goals per game.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Avalanche: Nazem Kadri: day to day (upper body), Cale Makar: out (upper body).<\/p>\n

Flames: Samuel Honzek: out for season (upper body), Jonathan Huberdeau<\/a>: out for season (hip), Jake Bean<\/a>: out (undisclosed), Kevin Bahl<\/a>: day to day (), Joel Hanley<\/a>: out for season (upper-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":"Calgary Flames (32-36-9, in the Pacific Division) vs. Colorado Avalanche (51-16-10, in the Central Division) Denver; Thursday, 9…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[895,26,5294,144,56683,896,5,2757,3321,7621,2338,513,4527,517,285,2054,4,6496,3922],"class_list":{"0":"post-547134","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-colorado-avalanche","12":"tag-event_preview","13":"tag-flames","14":"tag-hockey","15":"tag-jake-bean","16":"tag-joel-hanley","17":"tag-jonathan-huberdeau","18":"tag-kevin-bahl","19":"tag-martin-necas","20":"tag-morgan-frost","21":"tag-nathan-mackinnon","22":"tag-national-hockey-league","23":"tag-nazem-kadri","24":"tag-nhl","25":"tag-ryan-strome","26":"tag-valeri-nichushkin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116368480943867348","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547134","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=547134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547134\/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=547134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}