Calgary Flames (32-36-9, in the Pacific Division) vs. Colorado Avalanche (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 scored two goals in the Avalanche’s 3-1 win against the St. Louis Blues.<\/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 led the Avalanche with two goals.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Nathan MacKinnon has scored 51 goals with 72 assists for the Avalanche. Martin Necas has six goals and eight assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Morgan Frost has 21 goals and 20 assists for the Flames. Ryan Strome 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: out for season (hip), Jake Bean: out (undisclosed), Kevin Bahl: day to day (), Joel Hanley: out for season (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":"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":5828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5116],"tags":[62230,301,193,192,144,5277,5,4,292,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-547213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-colorado-avalanche","8":"tag-62230","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-avalanche","11":"tag-colorado","12":"tag-colorado-avalanche","13":"tag-coloradoavalanche","14":"tag-hockey","15":"tag-nhl","16":"tag-nhl-hockey","17":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116368736560565037","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547213","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=547213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547213\/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=547213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}