COLORADO AVALANCHE NOTES:
UPCOMING GAMES
Date Opponent Time (MT) TV Radio
Fri, Jan. 20 at Vancouver 8 p.m. Altitude 950 AM
Sat, Jan. 21 at Seattle 8 p.m. Altitude 92.5 FM
Tue, Jan. 24 WASHINGTON 7 p.m. Altitude 92.5 FM
Thu, Jan. 26 ANAHEIM 7 p.m. Altitude 92.5 FM
Sat, Jan. 28 ST. LOUIS 1 p.m. Hulu / ESPN+ 950 AM
TONIGHT’S GAME
COLORADO @ VANCOUVER
8:08 p.m. MT / 7:08 p.m. PT
Altitude / 950 AM
The Colorado Avalanche continues their three-game road trip tonight in Vancouver against the Canucks … This evening’s contest is the first half of a back-to-back for the Avs, who will play in Seattle tomorrow night to wrap up the road trip…Colorado beat Calgary 4-1 on Wednesday … The Avs have won three straight games, out-scoring the opposition 17-4 ON THE CALL
Altitude: Marc Moser (play-by-play), Mark Rycroft (analyst), Kyle Keefe (reporter)
Radio: Conor McGahey
LAST GAME
Jan. 18 – Colorado 4, Calgary 1 at Scotiabank Saddledome
Mikko Rantanen and Artturi Lehkonen each scored twice and Alexandar Georgiev made 34 saves in the Avalanche’s 4-1 victory over the Flames at Scotiabank Saddledome …. Rantanen also had an assist, while Nathan MacKinnon, J.T. Compher and Devon Toews all had two helpers apiece.
SF: 30 SA: 35 PP: 1-3 PK: 1-2
The Avalanche have won three straight games, out-scoring the opposition 17-4 Erik Johnson appeared in his 900th career NHL game Rantanen reached the 30-goal mark faster than any player in Avalanche history (43rd game) … He was one game faster than Joe Sakic, who hit the 30-goal plateau in his 44th game of the 1995-96 campaign MacKinnon extended his point streak to six games (4g/9a), which includes four straight multi-assist efforts … That’s one shy of equaling the franchise record for consecutive games with two or more assists set by Peter Stastny from Dec. 2-13, 1981 Toews was +3 after tying his career high with a +4 rating on Monday against Detroit … He is a league-best +95 since joining the Avalanche in 2020-21 (next closest is +74 MacKenzie Weegar) Lehkonen has a three-game goal streak (5g/1a), tying his career high set earlier this year The victory was Colorado’s 500th regular season road win since moving to Denver … Colorado is 500-424-46-83 in 1,053 away contests since relocating from Quebec … Only Boston (508) has more away wins during that time span
CURRENT INJURIES
Bowen Byram – lower body (33 games, Nov. 5 – present)
Darren Helm – lower body (3 games, Jan. 14 – present)
Gabriel Landeskog – lower body (all season, Oct. 12 – present)
Dennis Malgin – upper body (6 games, Jan. 7 – present)
Cale Makar – upper body (1 game, Jan. 18 – present)
Josh Manson – lower body (22 games, Dec. 3 – present)
Total: 252 (3rd in NHL)
RECENT TRANSACTIONS
Jan. 16 – Anton Blidh recalled from the Colorado Eagles (AHL)
Jan. 14 – Denis Malgin placed on Injured Reserve (retroactive to Jan. 5) … Sampo Ranta recalled from the Colorado
Eagles (AHL) … Martin Kaut and Sampo Ranta reassigned to the Colorado Eagles (AHL)
TONIGHT’S OPPONENT – VANCOUVER CANUCKS
The Avalanche and Canucks wrap up the 2022-23 season series with the third and final matchup tonight … The Canucks have won the first two meetings, including a 4-2 victory over Colorado here in Vancouver just two weeks ago
SCHEDULE vs. CANUCKS
Nov. 23 vs. VANCOUVER (L, 3-4)
Jan. 5 @ Vancouver (L, 2-4)
Jan. 20 @ Vancouver
RECORD vs. CANUCKS
THIS SEASON 2021-22 ALL-TIME SINCE 1995-96 PLAYOFFS
Overall: 0-2-0 Overall: 2-1-0 Overall: 78-67-26 Overall: 62-46-18 Series: 2 (2-0)
Home: 0-1-0 Home: 1-1-0 Home: 40-32-13 Home: 31-22-9 W-L Record: 8-2
Road: 0-1-0 Road: 1-0-0 Road: 38-35-13 Road: 31-24-9
VANCOUVER CANUCKS NOTES:
TV: Sportsnet Pacific, TVA Sports, Altitude Sports
Radio: Sportsnet 650
MATCH-UP INFO
• Tonight marks the third and final meeting between the Canucks and Avalanche this season: Nov. 23 (4-3 W @ COL), Jan. 5 (4-2 W vs COL) and Jan. 20 (home).
• The Canucks are 40-31-11-1 against Colorado, including a 24-12-6-0 record at home.
• Vancouver is 6-2-2 in their last 10 games against the Avalanche (3-2-0 in their last five).
• Among active Canucks skaters, Oliver Ekman-Larsson leads the team in both career points with 24 (8-16-24) and games played (42) against Colorado.
• Elias Pettersson has 12 career points (2-10-12) in 10 games played against the Avalanche.
• Brock Boeser has 12 career points (6-6-12) in 12 games played against the Avalanche.
• J.T. Miller has 13 career points (5-8-13) in 16 games played against the Avalanche.
• Spencer Martin is 1-0-0 with a .917 save percentage and a 3.00 goals against average in one career game against Colorado earlier this season.
• Collin Delia is 3-2-0 with a .916 SV% and a 2.81 GAA in five career games against Colorado.
QUICK NUMBERS
• Elias Pettersson has 18 points (5-13-18) in his last 13 games.
• Bo Horvat has 18 points (8-10-18) in his last 12 games and is on a nine-game point streak to tie the season high (joining J.T. Miller and Brock Boeser).
• J.T. Miller has 10 points (4-6-10) in his last eight games.
• Quinn Hughes has nine points (3-6-9) in his last five games.
• Andrei Kuzmenko has 10 points (4-6-10) in his last 11 games.
• Brock Boeser has nine points (4-5-9) in his last 11 games.
LAST MEETING – JAN. 5/23: VAN 4 vs COL 2
Andrei Kuzmenko cut the deficit in half with his 16th of the season at 13:15 of the second period…Ilya Mikheyev and Oliver EkmanLarsson recorded the assists…Kuzmenko tied the game 1:59 later…Elias Pettersson and Ethan Bear picked up the assists…Brock Boeser gave the Canucks their first lead at 15:48 of the second…Mikheyev and Bo Horvat were awarded the assists on Boeser’s seventh of the season…J.T. Miller added an empty-netter with 1:36 remaining…Pettersson and Ekman-Larsson each recorded their second assists of the night…Pettersson led the team with seven shots…William Lockwood led the team with eight hits, a career-high…Collin Delia made 30 saves for his third victory of the season.
2022.23 TEAM RANKS
VAN COL
Goals For/Game 3.36 (9th) 3.07 (t-20th)
Goals Against/Game 3.95 (31st) 2.79 (t-10th)
Power Play % 24.5 (11th) 24.2 (12th)
Penalty Kill % 66.9 (32nd) 75.5 (20th)
Penalty Min./Game 9:36 (22nd) 8:39 (14th)
*Rankings are accurate as of 12:00pm PT on January 19, 2023
LAST GAME PLAYED – JAN. 18/23: VAN 2 vs TBL 5
Andrei Kuzmenko got the Canucks on the board with a power play goal at 6:35 in the third period… Quinn Hughes and J.T. Miller recorded assists on the play…Hughes collected a multi-point night with his own power play goal almost three minutes later…Miller also registered a multi-point night with the first assist and Bo Horvat extended his point streak to nine games with the second helper…Collin Delia made 14 saves after relieving Spencer Martin…Luke Schenn led the team in hits (6)…Elias Pettersson led the team in shots (6).
LAST 5 vs COLORADO
• Jan. 5/23: VAN 4 vs COL 2
• Nov. 23/22: VAN 4 at COL 3
• Mar. 23/22: VAN 3 at COL 1
• Nov. 17/21: VAN 2 vs COL 4
• Nov. 11/21: VAN 1 at COL 7
