Seattle Kraken (34-36-11, in the Pacific Division) vs. Colorado Avalanche (54-16-11, in the Central Division)<\/p>\n
Denver; Thursday, 10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
LINE: Avalanche -183, Kraken +153; over\/under is 6.5<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Seattle Kraken visit the Colorado Avalanche looking to break a five-game road losing streak.<\/p>\n
Colorado has a 25-9-6 record in home games and a 54-16-11 record overall. The Avalanche have a 28-6-6 record when they serve fewer penalty minutes than their opponent.<\/p>\n
Seattle has a 15-19-6 record on the road and a 34-36-11 record overall. The Kraken have a -31 scoring differential, with 224 total goals scored and 255 conceded.<\/p>\n
The matchup Thursday is the third meeting between these teams this season. The Avalanche won 5-1 in the previous meeting.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Nathan MacKinnon has 53 goals and 74 assists for the Avalanche. Parker Kelly has four goals and two assists over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
Jordan Eberle has 26 goals and 29 assists for the Kraken. Bobby McMann has scored four goals and added one assist over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Avalanche: 6-3-1, averaging 3.3 goals, 5.7 assists, 2.9 penalties and 5.8 penalty minutes while giving up 2.2 goals per game.<\/p>\n
Kraken: 2-7-1, averaging 2.1 goals, 3.6 assists, 2.6 penalties and 6.5 penalty minutes while giving up 3.4 goals per game.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Avalanche: Nazem Kadri: day to day (finger), Josh Manson: day to day (upper body).<\/p>\n
Kraken: Joey Daccord: day to day (lower-body), Jared McCann: out for season (lower-body), Jaden Schwartz: day to day (upper-body), Matt Murray: out (personal), Philipp Grubauer: day to day (lower-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":"Seattle Kraken (34-36-11, in the Pacific Division) vs. Colorado Avalanche (54-16-11, in the Central Division) Denver; Thursday, 10…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5116],"tags":[193,192,144,5277,5,4,292,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-553837","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-colorado-avalanche","8":"tag-avalanche","9":"tag-colorado","10":"tag-colorado-avalanche","11":"tag-coloradoavalanche","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-nhl-hockey","15":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116414497604803614","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553837","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=553837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553837\/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=553837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}