After coming off a 5-3 win over the Seattle Kraken, the Colorado Avalanche return home to kick off their regular-season series against the Winnipeg Jets, as they look to extend their win streak. This will be the first of four regular-season matchups between these two teams.
Colorado Avalanche (24-2-7)
Colorado comes into this game after a hard-fought win against the Seattle Kraken, in which the Avs had to overcome two different one-goal deficits to win that game. Despite their powerplay failing to convert all night, ultimately it was Brock Nelson on the powerplay that scored the game-winning goal for the Avs in the third period. Despite Winnipeg’s record, they’ve gotten back arguably their most important player, Connor Hellebuyck. Goals are most likely going to be very tough to come by at 5-on-5 here tonight, so hopefully your special teams can come through again and win you this game.
Artturi Lehkonen – Nathan MacKinnon – Martin Necas
Gabriel Landeskog – Brock Nelson – Valeri Nichushkin
Victor Olofsson – Ross Colton – Gavin Brindley
Parker Kelly – Jack Drury – Joel Kiviranta
Devon Toews – Cale Makar
Josh Manson – Brent Burns
Samuel Girard – Sam Malinski
Mackenzie Blackwood
Scott Wedgewood
It’s not exactly a secret that the Jets have been struggling mightily through this point in the season, and that’s mostly been because of Hellebuyck having missed a fair bit of time this season with injury. Not to say that this Winnipeg team is just not competitive without him, but he’s arguably the most important player, which is why getting him back was so important for the Jets. While getting him back has likely been a huge morale boost for this Winnipeg team, they’ve still lost their last two games in a row and will be looking to get right against Colorado here tonight.
Kyle Connor – Mark Scheifele – Gabriel Vilardi
Nino Niederreiter – Vladislav Namestnikov – Cole Perfetti
Morgan Barron – Adam Lowry – Alex Iafallo
Cole Koepke – Jonathan Toews – Gustav Nyquist
Josh Morrissey – Dylan Demelo
Dylan Samberg – Neal Pionk
Logan Stanley – Luke Schenn
Connor Hellebuyck
Eric Comrie
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