CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS NOTES:
TONIGHT’S BROADCAST INFORMATION
TV: NBCSCH – Chris Vosters (PxP), Troy Murray (analyst)
RADIO: WGN-AM 720 – John Wiedeman (PxP) and Caley Chelios (analyst)
UPCOMING SCHEDULE
Thursday, March 23 at WSH, 6:00 p.m. CT (NBCSCH, WGN Radio)
Saturday, March 25 at MIN, 4:00 p.m. CT (NBCSCH, WGN Radio)
Sunday, Match 26 vs. VAN, 5:00 p.m. CT (NBCSCH, WGN Radio, Univision (Spanish))
Tuesday, March 28 vs. DAL, 7:30 p.m. CT (NBCSCH, WGN Radio, Univision (Spanish))
Thursday, March 30 vs. STL, 7:30 p.m. CT (NBCSCH, WGN Radio, Univision (Spanish))
RECENT TRANSACTIONS
March 15 – Recalled Anton Khudobin from Rockford … March 13 – Recalled Mike Hardman and Buddy Robinson from Rockford … March 12 – Assigned Luke Philp, Filip Roos and Anton Khudobin to Rockford … March 9 – Recalled Filip Roos from Rockford … March 3 – Recalled Anders Bjork from Rockford … Activated MacKenzie Entwistle from IR … Activated Nikita Zaitsev from non-roster … Assigned David Gust, Brett Seney and Isaak Phillips to Rockford … March 2 – Recalled Lukas Reichel from Rockford.
LAST TIME OUT
Score: Chicago (2) at Arizona (4) – Sat., March 18 – Mullett Arena
CHI Goals: Khaira (4), C. Jones (4)
ARI Goals: Hayton (14), Keller (32), Valimaki (3), Maccelli (7)
Goalies: CHI – Stalock (17/20, 58:01) ARI – Prosvetov (32/34, 59:53)
CHI PP: 1/5; PK: 3/3
ARI PP: 0/3; PK: 4/5
Recap: The Blackhawks fell to the Arizona Coyotes, 4-2, on Saturday night at Mullett Arena … Jujhar Khaira opened the scoring for Chicago with his fourth goal of the season … Khaira has now registered six points (1G, 5A) over his last six games … Caleb Jones scored a power play goal on Saturday night and now has three points (2G, 1A) over his last five games … Boris Katchouk recorded an assist against the Coyotes and now has points (1G, 4A) in each of his last three games … Katchouk’s current three-game point streak marks a new career long.
TONIGHT’S OPPONENT – COLORADO AVALANCHE
The Blackhawks face off against the Colorado Avalanche on Monday night in the third and final game scheduled between the two teams this season … Chicago is 1-1-0 against the Avalanche so far in 2022- 23, including a 0-1-0 mark at Ball Arena … The Blackhawks earned a 3-2 win over Colorado in the last matchup on Jan. 12 … Andreas Athanasiou scored a goal in the game and now has points (1G, 1A) in each of his last two games against them … Tyler Johnson earned an assist in the last game against the Avalanche and now has helpers in both games against them this season (2A) … Johnson has tallied four points (1G, 3A) over his last six games against Colorado … Alex Stalock is 4-2-0 with a .916 save percentage and a 2.07 goals against average in eight career appearances against the Avalanche … Anton Khudobin owns a 2-3-0 record with a 2.82 GAA and a .908 SV% in seven career appearances against Colorado … Andreas Englund skated in 36 games and recorded three assists with Colorado this season before being acquired by Chicago via trade in exchange for Jack Johnson on Feb. 26.
2022-23 Schedule/Results:
HOME: Jan. 12 (3-2) AWAY: Oct. 12 (2-5), March 20
All-Time Record: 64-76-19 Home: 37-35-10 Road: 27-41-9
Last Home Win: Jan. 12, 2023 (3-2) Last Road Win: Dec. 21, 2019 (5-3) Last Home Loss: Jan. 28, 2022 (4-6) Last Road Loss: Oct. 12, 2022 (2-5)
ACTIVE BLACKHAWKS VS. COL ALL-TIME
GOALS: Tyler Johnson, 6; Andreas Athanasiou, 4; Two players tied with three goals
ASSISTS: Seth Jones, 11; Tyler Johnson, 8; Connor Murphy, 5
POINTS: Tyler Johnson, 14; Seth Jones, 13; Two players tied with seven points
BLACKHAWKS RECORD ON…
One-Day Rest: 14-17-1
Two-Days Rest: 5-4-0
Three+ Days Rest: 2-2-2
First Game of a B2B: 2-6-2
Second Game of a B2B: 1-10-1
BLACKHAWKS RECORD BY DAY
Monday: 1-2-0
Tuesday: 4-8-1
Wednesday: 1-7-0
Thursday: 5-5-1
Friday: 5-2-2
Saturday: 5-9-1
Sunday: 3-6-1
COLORADO AVALANCHE NOTES:
UPCOMING GAMES
Date Opponent Time (MT) TV Radio
Mon, Mar. 20 CHICAGO 7 p.m. Altitude 92.5 FM
Wed, Mar. 22 PITTSBURGH 6 p.m. TNT 92.5 FM
Fri, Mar. 25 ARIZONA 7 p.m. Altitude 92.5 FM
TONIGHT’S GAME
COLORADO AVALANCHE (40-22-6, 86 PTS) vs. CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS (24-39-6, 54 PTS)
7:08 p.m. – Ball Arena, Denver, Colorado
Altitude / Altitude Radio (92.5 FM)
The Colorado Avalanche opens a three-game homestand tonight against the Chicago Blackhawks at Ball Arena … The Avs just wrapped up a 4-0-0 road trip and have won five straight games overall, the longest active win streak in the NHL … Colorado is 12-3-1 in its last 16 contests and 20-5-3 (.768) in its last 28 games … That’s tied with Boston (21-6-1, .768) for the best record since Jan. 14 … The Avs are 9-3-2 in their last 14 home games and 11-2-1 in their last 14 road contests … Colorado is in a busy stretch of 15 contests in 26 days from March 4-29.
ON THE CALL
Altitude: Marc Moser (play-by-play), Mark Rycroft (analyst), Katie Gaus (reporter)
Altitude Radio: Conor McGahey
LAST GAME
March 18 – Colorado 5, Detroit 1 at Little Caesars Arena
Nathan MacKinnon scored his 30th goal of the season and had two assists and Cale Makar added three helpers to give the Avalanche a 5-1 victory over the Detroit Red Wings and a perfect 4-0-0 record on their four-game road trip … Mikko Rantanen, Bowen Byram, Devon Toews and Lars Eller also scored the Avalanche, who have won 10 straight over the Red Wings … Alexandar Georgiev made 33 saves.
SF: 23 SA: 34 PP: 1-3 PK: 3-3
The Avalanche’s 4-0-0 road trip marked just the third time that Colorado has won every game of a road trip of at least four games … The Avs went 5-0-0 on a five-game trip from Oct. 10-17, 2011 and 4-0-0 on a four-game swing from Feb. 2-7, 1999 The Avalanche won their 10th consecutive game against the Red Wings, tying their longest win streak against an opponent in franchise history … Colorado won 10 consecutive games against Buffalo from March 7, 2007 – Jan. 20, 2016, won 10 in a row against Columbus from Oct. 14, 2000 – Jan. 23, 2003 and the Nordiques won 10 straight against Pittsburgh from Oct. 21, 1982 – Oct. 19, 1985 The Avalanche have won five straight games overall, are 12-3-1 in their last 16 games and a league-best 20-5-3 (.768) in their last 28 contests Colorado is 11-2-1 in its last 14 road games The victory was the franchise’s 1,600th regular-season win Colorado improved to 7-1-0 in day games this year … The Avs are 12-2-0 in afternoon dates over the past two seasons and 20-4-1 (.820) since 2019-20 … Only Carolina (21-3-3, .833) has a better record in afternoon contests over the last four seasons
The Avalanche are 15-4-0 (.789) on Saturdays this season, the most wins of any team in the NHL … Colorado’s .789 winning percentage on Saturday trails only Boston (13-2-2, .824). The Avalanche are 18-10-3 against Eastern Conference teams this year … Colorado is 61-24-9 (.697) against Eastern teams since 2019-20, the best record of any Western Conference club over the last four seasons MacKinnon (6g/9a) and Makar (3g/13a) each extended their respective point streaks to eight games Makar’s 16 points are the most-ever by an Avalanche/Nordiques defenseman over an eight-game span … It’s one more than Sandis Ozolinsh (15) had over an eight-game stretch from Nov. 8-22, 1996 Rantanen scored a goal for the fourth straight game and extended his point streak to seven contests (5g/6a) MacKinnon recorded his second straight 30-goal season and fifth career 30-goal campaign … That ties Milan Hejduk for the second most 30-goal seasons in Avalanche history (since 1995-96), trailing only Joe Sakic (six) Makar moved into a tie with Erik Johnson (177) for fifth place on the career assists list by a Colorado/Quebec defenseman … It was Cale’s 33rd multi-assist game, tying Tyson Barrie for the second-most by a franchise defender behind Ozolinsh (35) The Avalanche’s power-play unit has converted in seven straight games, going 9-for-25 (36.0%) … It’s the club’s second-longest streak with a power-play goal this season behind a run of eight consecutive games from Nov. 10-26
CURRENT INJURIES
Pavel Francouz – lower body (Feb. 14 – present)
Darren Helm – lower body (Jan. 14 – present)
Erik Johnson – ankle (Feb. 14 – present)
Gabriel Landeskog – knee (Oct. 12 – present)
Artturi Lehkonen – finger (March 15 – present)
Kurtis MacDermid – lower body (March 9 – present)
Josh Manson – lower body (March 4 – present)
Total Man-Game Lost: 388
RECENT TRANSACTIONS
Mar. 14 – Alex Galchenyk recalled from the Colorado Eagles (AHL)
TONIGHT’S OPPONENT – CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS
The Avalanche and Blackhawks close out the season series with the third and final meeting of 2022-23 … The Avalanche won the first matchup 5-2 on Opening Night (Oct. 12) at Ball Arena and the Blackhawks won the second 3-2 on Jan. 12 at United Center … Colorado won all four matchups last year, sweeping the season series for the first time since 2002-03 (4-0-0) … Colorado is 8-2-0 in its last 10 versus the Blackhawks and 10-2-1 in its last 13 … The Avs are 5-1-0 in their last six home matchups with the Hawks.
SCHEDULE vs. BLACKHAWKS
Oct. 12 vs. CHICAGO (W, 5-2)
Jan. 12 @ Chicago (L, 2-3)
Mar. 20 vs. CHICAGO
RECORD vs. BLACKHAWKS
THIS SEASON 2021-22 ALL-TIME SINCE 1995-96 ALL-TIME PLAYOFFS
Overall: 1-1-0 Overall: 4-0-0 Overall: 76-56-17 Overall: 60-33-11 Series: 2 (2-0)
Home: 1-0-0 Home: 2-0-0 Home: 41-23-10 Home: 32-14-6 W-L Record: 8-4
Road: 0-1-0 Road: 2-0-0 Road: 35-33-7 Road: 28-19-5 1996 CSF (W, 4-2) 1997 CQF (W, 4-2)
GRAND CENTRAL
Colorado is 13-5-1 against Central Division teams this season, 6-1-1 at home and 7-4-0 on the road.
BACK-TO-BACK
The Avalanche just swept a back-to-back in Toronto and Ottawa last week … Colorado has swept five of its last seven sets of back-to-back games … The Avs are 13-5-2 overall in back-to-back contests this season, going 6-3-1 in the first game and 7-2-1 in the second …. The Avalanche had a stretch of three consecutive sets of back-to-back games from Feb. 14-25, with the club earning 11 of a possible 12 points during that span … All three back-to-backs required travel in between (either home/road or road/home) and all three opponents on the second half of the back-to-back were waiting for the Avs, with Colorado sweeping all three games … The Avalanche posted a 15-5-2 (.727) record in back-to-back games last season, the second-best mark behind Minnesota (.732, 19-6-3) … The Avs were 7-3-1 in the first game and 8-2-1 in the second.
