{"id":674185,"date":"2026-09-29T09:09:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T09:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/674185\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T09:09:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T09:09:16","slug":"avalanche-host-the-kings-to-begin-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/674185\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche host the Kings to begin season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/los-angeles-kings-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Kings<\/a> vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/colorado-avalanche-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado Avalanche<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">Denver; Wednesday, 10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">LINE: Avalanche -186, Kings +149; over\/under is 5.5<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: The Colorado Avalanche host the Los Angeles Kings in the season opener.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">Colorado had a 55-16-11 record overall and a 31-11-6 record in home games last season. The Avalanche gave up 2.4 goals per game while scoring 3.6 last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">Los Angeles went 35-27-20 overall and 20-11-12 in road games a season ago. The Kings committed 3.5 penalties per game and served 8.2 penalty minutes per game last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">INJURIES: Avalanche: Logan O&#8217;Connor: out (lower-body), Zachary L&#8217;Heureux: out (lower-body).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">Kings: Jakub Dvorak: out (upper-body), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/joel-edmundson-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joel Edmundson<\/a>: day to day (undisclosed), Kevin Fiala: out (leg), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nhl\/jan-jenik-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jan Jenik<\/a>: out (undisclosed).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-4d988373=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press Los Angeles Kings vs. Colorado Avalanche Denver; Wednesday, 10 p.m. EDT LINE: Avalanche -186, Kings +149;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5116],"tags":[193,192,144,5277,56683,5,1085,6586,145,285,4],"class_list":["post-674185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-colorado-avalanche","tag-avalanche","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-avalanche","tag-coloradoavalanche","tag-event_preview","tag-hockey","tag-jan-jenik","tag-joel-edmundson","tag-los-angeles-kings","tag-national-hockey-league","tag-nhl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/117353549861411643","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674185","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=674185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}