COLORADO AVALANCHE NOTES:
UPCOMING GAMES
Date Opponent Time (MT) TV Radio
Sat, Mar. 18 at Detroit 11 a.m. Altitude, NHLN 92.5 FM
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
TODAY’S GAME
COLORADO AVALANCHE (39-22-6, 84 PTS) at DETROIT RED WINGS (30-28-9, 69 PTS)
11:08 a.m. MT / 1:08 p.m. ET – Little Caesars Arena, Detroit, Michigan
Altitude, NHL Network / Altitude Radio (92.5 FM)
The Colorado Avalanche wraps up their four-game road trip with a Saturday afternoon matchup against the Detroit Red Wings at Little Caesars Arena … The Avs are 3-0-0 so far on this road swing and have won four straight games overall … Colorado is 11-3-1 in its last 15 contests and 19-5-3 (.759) in its last 27 games … The Avs are 10-2-1 in their last 13 road games … 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 16 – Colorado 5, Ottawa 4
Mikko Rantanen had a goal and two assists and Nathan MacKinnon added three helpers to lead the Avalanche to a 5-4 victory over the Ottawa Senators … Cale Makar chipped in with a goal and one assist, Valeri Nichushkin had a power-play tally and Lars Eller notched the game winner … Evan Rodrigues also lit the lamp and Jonas Johansson made 32 saves in his first start of the season.
SF: 30 SA: 36 PP: 1-3 PK: 3-5
The Avalanche are 3-0 so far on road trip, have won four straight games overall and are 11-3-1 in their last 15 games…The Avs are 19-5-3 (.759) in their last 27 contests Colorado is 10-2-1 in its last 13 road contests Devon Toews appeared in his 300th career NHL game MacKinnon (5g/7a) and Makar (3g/10a) each extended their respective point streaks to seven games Rantanen scored a goal for the third straight game and extended his point streak to six contests (4g/6a) Rantanen’s three points gives him 490 career points, passing Alex Tanguay (488) for ninth place on the franchise alltime scoring list The Avalanche’s power-play unit has converted in six straight games, going 8-for-22 (36.4%) Colorado swept its back-to-back against Toronto/Ottawa and has now swept five of its last seven sets of back-toback games … The Avs are 7-2-1 on the second night of a back-to-back this season
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: 381
RECENT TRANSACTIONS
Mar. 14 – Alex Galchenyk recalled from the Colorado Eagles (AHL)
Mar. 6 – Jonas Johansson recalled from the Colorado Eagles (AHL)
Mar. 5 – Keith Kinkaid reassigned to the Colorado Eagles (AHL)
TODAY’S OPPONENT – DETROIT RED WINGS
The Avalanche and Red Wings close out the season series with the second and final meeting of 2022-23 … Both matchups this season are afternoon tilts, as Colorado won the first game 6-3 in a Martin Luther King Jr. Day matinee at Ball Arena on Jan. 16 …. Colorado has won its last nine meetings against Detroit, the longest win streak by either team in this series… This current 9-0 run is also the Avalanche’s longest active win streak against any opponent … In fact, if the Avs can stretch that streak to 10 games today, it would match their longest winning 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 … Colorado is 4-0-0 here at Little Caesars Arena since it opened in 2017-18.
SCHEDULE vs. RED WINGS
Jan. 16 vs. DETROIT (W, 6-3)
Mar. 18 @ DETROIT
RECORD vs. RED WINGS
THIS SEASON 2021-22 ALL-TIME SINCE 1995-96 ALL-TIME PLAYOFFS
Overall: 1-0-0 Overall: 2-0-0 Overall: 59-61-10 Overall: 38-41-6 Series: 6 (3-3)
Home: 1-0-0 Home: 1-0-0 Home: 31-27-8 Home: 19-19-5 W-L: 17-17
Road: — Road: 1-0-0 Road: 28-34-2 Road: 19-22-1 Last: 2008 CSF (L, 0-4)
2022-23 SEASON NOTES
DAYDREAM BELIEVER
Colorado is 6-1-0 in day games this year, 4-0-0 at home and 2-1-0 on the road … The Avs are 11-2-0 in afternoon dates over the past two seasons and 19-4-1 (.813) since 2019-20 … Only Carolina (21-3-3, .833) has a better record in afternoon contests over the last four seasons …. The Avs are 20-3-2 in home afternoon contests since 2017-18 … The Avalanche will play a total of nine afternoon dates this year … The schedule originally called for 10 daytime contests but the Nov 25th game in Nashville was postponed due to a water main break at Bridgestone Arena … The Avs finished 5-1-0 in day games last year, 3-0-0 at home.
EAST SIDE STORY
The Avalanche are 17-10-3 against Eastern Conference teams this year … Colorado finished 22-8-2 against the East last year, its most wins and tied for its most points (46) ever against the other conference… Since Jared Bednar was hired in 2016-17, the Avs are 107-64-18 (.614) against the Eastern Conference, which includes a 60-24-9 (.694) mark since 2019-20, the best of any Western Conference team over the last four seasons.
BACK-TO-BACK
The Avalanche just swept a back-to-back in Toronto and Ottawa this 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.
DETROIT RED WINGS NOTES:
LAST GAME
RED WINGS 1 at NASHVILLE 2 (3/14/23)
1ST PERIOD: No scoring
2ND PERIOD: NSH Sherwood (Tomasino, Sissons) 10:58-EV
3RD PERIOD: NSH Novak (Foote, Sherwood) 2:22-EV; DET Chiasson (Copp, Raymond) 17:44-PP
SHOTS: DET 29 (10-11-8) / NSH 16 (5-8-3)
GOALIES: DET Husso (L, 14-16) / NSH Saros (W, 28-29)
PP: DET 1-4 / NSH 0-5
MAN GAMES LOST (games missed / out since)
Robby Fabbri – lower body (38 / March 8)
Michael Rasmussen – lower body (11 / Feb. 25)
Total Man Games Lost: 249
Individual Man Games Lost: Filip Zadina (37), Jakub Vrána (33), Matt Luff (32), Tyler Bertuzzi (31), Robert Hägg (15), Elmer Söderblom (13), Gustav Lindström (11), Lucas Raymond (8), Oskar Sundqvist (7), Olli Määttä (4), Ville Husso (3), Jake Walman (3), Jordan Oesterle (2), Dylan Larkin (1)
RECENT TRANSACTIONS
3/17 – Recalled forward Austin Czarnik and defenseman Simon Edvinsson from Grand Rapids under emergency conditions
3/15 – Assigned forwards Austin Czarnik and Matt Luff to Grand Rapids
3/13 – Recalled forward Matt Luff from Grand Rapids under emergency conditions
3/12 – Reassigned goaltender John Lethemon to Grand Rapids from Toledo (ECHL)
TODAY’S GAME
RED WINGS vs. AVALANCHE / 1:00 P.M. EDT / LITTLE CAESARS ARENA / TV: NHLN, BSD / RADIO: WXYT 97.1 FM
TODAY: 131st all-time meeting, 65th in Detroit … Second of two games this season, only game at Little Caesars Arena
ALL-TIME vs. COL: 66-49-5-10 / HOME: 35-20-1-8 / LAST 10: 1-7-2 / IN 2021-22: 0-2-0 / THIS SEASON: 0-1-0
DET top scorers vs. COL: David Perron (21-21-42 in 50 GP), Dylan Larkin (2-9-11 in 13 GP), Moritz Seider (0-4-4 in 3 GP), Filip Zadina (2-2-4 in 4 GP)
COL top scorers vs. DET: Nathan MacKinnon (12-9-21 in 16 GP), Alex Galchenyuk (6-13-19 in 27 GP), Mikko Rantanen (1-11-12 in 10 GP), Cale Makar (3-6-9 in 4 GP), Evan Rodrigues (4-4-8 in 14 GP), Devon Toews (0-7-7 in 7 GP), Valeri Nichushkin (2-3-5 in 10 GP), Alex Newhook (0-3-3 in 3 GP), Logan O’Connor (1-1-2 in 4 GP)
UPCOMING GAMES (ALL TIMES EDT)
Mon., March 20: RED WINGS vs. PANTHERS / 7:00 p.m. / LITTLE CAESARS ARENA / TV: NHLN, BSD / RADIO: WXYT 97.1 FM
Tue., March 21: RED WINGS at BLUES / 8:00 p.m. / Enterprise Center / TV: BSD / RADIO: WXYT 97.1 FM
Thu., March 23: RED WINGS vs. BLUES / 7:00 p.m. / LITTLE CAESARS ARENA / TV: BSD / RADIO: WXYT 97.1 FM
LAST TIME OUT
March 14 at Nashville – 2-1 L
Detroit fell 2-1 at Nashville to move to 30-28-9 overall and 13-16-5 on the road … The Red Wings are 21-4-0 this season when allowing two-or-fewer goals … Detroit is 14-7-6 this season against Western Conference opponents … The Red Wings are 10-7-9 in one-goal games this season, and 25-8-19 since the beginning of the 2021-22 campaign … Alex Chiasson put Detroit on the board with his third power play goal in as many games … Chiasson recorded his first three-game goal streak since Dec. 13-16, 2018 as a member of the Edmonton Oilers … Chiasson also extended his point streak to four-straight games (3-2-5 in 4 GP) … Chiasson scored Detroit’s first 6-on-4 power play goal since Anthony Mantha did so on Feb. 21, 2020 at the New York Islanders … Andrew Copp picked up an assist in his 550th career NHL game … Copp is one assist shy of 150 for his NHL career … Copp improved his point streak to five-straight games (2-3-5 in 5 GP), and has nine points (3-6-9) in 11 games since Feb. 23 against the New York Rangers … Lucas Raymond also recorded an assist on Chiasson’s power play goal … Raymond has three assists in his last two games, and 14 points (6-8-14) in 21 contests dating back to Jan. 10 vs. Winnipeg … Ville Husso stopped 14-of-16 shots … Husso has allowed two goals or fewer in 23 starts this season … Detroit has scored a power play goal in each of its last four contests … The Red Wings are 5-for-12 (41.7%) on the man advantage since March 8 vs. Chicago … In all, Detroit is 22-10-5 this season when scoring a power play goal … Additionally, Detroit is 16-for-18 (88.9%) on the penalty kill since March 5 at Philadelphia … Detroit allowed a season-low 16 shots on goal … The Red Wings outshot the Predators by a 22-9 margin at even strength … Detroit is 13-10-4 this season when outshooting its opponent, and 5-2-2 when doing so on the road.
