After a frustrating Game 1 loss against the Vegas Golden Knights, the Colorado Avalanche are back in action again tonight, as they look to bounce back and even this series up in Game 2.<\/p>\n
Colorado Avalanche<\/p>\n
Game 1 was, in a word, frustrating for Colorado<\/a>. Yes, Vegas is a good hockey team and they were incredibly opportunistic with their goals, but the Avs made it super easy for them to actually benefit from those opportunities, as they made a lot of mistakes defensively in that game, giving the Golden Knights maybe a bit of an easier time than they would\u2019ve had otherwise. Tonight, they\u2019ll have to clean up those defensive mistakes to even this series.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n There\u2019s no greater storyline for Colorado than what\u2019s the status of Cale Makar<\/a>. He was a participant at morning skate, which is fostering some optimism that he can return to the lineup tonight. In net it still looks to be Scott Wedgewood<\/a> despite the loss.<\/p>\n Projected Lineup<\/p>\n Artturi Lehkonen<\/a> \u2013 Nathan MacKinnon<\/a> \u2013 Gabriel Landeskog Devon Toews<\/a> \u2013 Sam Malinski<\/a> Scott Wedgewood Vegas Golden Knights<\/p>\n As previously mentioned, the Golden Knights were very opportunistic in Game 1, and capitalized on the opportunities they got throughout the game. They were as advertised in this game, being strong defensively and overall frustrating to play against. Colorado did make a late push in Game 1 and showed that they\u2019re capable of hanging with this team, they\u2019ll just need to capitalize the way Vegas did to even this series.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n No lineup changes are expected for Vegas, though Mark Stone<\/a> did make the trip to Colorado but he\u2019s still out indefinitely.<\/p>\n Projected Lineup<\/p>\n Ivan Barbashev<\/a> \u2013 Jack Eichel \u2013 Pavel Dorofeyev<\/a> Brayden McNabb<\/a> \u2013 Shea Theodore<\/a> Carter Hart<\/a> Follow along in the comments below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a frustrating Game 1 loss against the Vegas Golden Knights, the Colorado Avalanche are back in action…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5116],"tags":[1042,2320,193,2882,3704,1598,1772,1741,3592,1034,1116,88,17763,192,144,5277,7950,556,1543,2094,7,5,1259,515,1041,1544,1123,1040,513,533,517,2054,4,4864,6295,2880,3327,1351,4520,2565,9,1261,3922,39,3966,1599],"class_list":["post-581479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-colorado-avalanche","tag-adin-hill","tag-artturi-lehkonen","tag-avalanche","tag-ben-hutton","tag-brandon-saad","tag-brayden-mcnabb","tag-brent-burns","tag-brett-howden","tag-brett-kulak","tag-brock-nelson","tag-cale-makar","tag-carter-hart","tag-cole-smith","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-avalanche","tag-coloradoavalanche","tag-colton-sissons","tag-denver","tag-devon-toews","tag-dylan-coghlan","tag-gabriel-landeskog","tag-hockey","tag-ivan-barbashev","tag-jack-drury","tag-jack-eichel","tag-josh-manson","tag-mackenzie-blackwood","tag-mark-stone","tag-martin-necas","tag-mitch-marner","tag-nathan-mackinnon","tag-nazem-kadri","tag-nhl","tag-nic-dowd","tag-parker-kelly","tag-pavel-dorofeyev","tag-rasmus-andersson","tag-ross-colton","tag-sam-malinski","tag-scott-wedgewood","tag-shea-theodore","tag-tomas-hertl","tag-valeri-nichushkin","tag-vegas-golden-knights","tag-western-conference-final","tag-william-karlsson"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581479","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=581479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Valeri Nichushkin<\/a> \u2013 Brock Nelson<\/a> \u2013 Martin Necas<\/a>
Ross Colton<\/a> \u2013 Nazem Kadri<\/a> \u2013 Nic Roy
Parker Kelly<\/a> \u2013 Jack Drury<\/a> \u2013 Logan O\u2019Connor<\/p>\n
Brett Kulak<\/a> \u2013 Brent Burns<\/a>
Jack Achan \u2013 Josh Manson<\/a><\/p>\n
Mackenzie Blackwood<\/a><\/p>\n
Brett Howden<\/a> \u2013 William Karlsson<\/a> \u2013 Mitch Marner<\/a>
Brandon Saad<\/a> \u2013 Tomas Hertl<\/a> \u2013 Colton Sissons<\/a>
Cole Smith<\/a> \u2013 Nic Dowd<\/a> \u2013 Keegan Kolessar<\/p>\n
Noah Hanafin \u2013 Rasmus Andersson<\/a>
Ben Hutton<\/a> \u2013 Dylan Coghlan<\/a><\/p>\n
Adin Hill<\/a><\/p>\n