COLORADO AVALANCHE NOTES:
The Colorado Avalanche travels to the Emerald City to face the Seattle Kraken tonight at Climate Pledge Arena…This is a quick one-game road trip for the Avs, who will return home to host Anaheim on Wednesday at Ball Arena.
TONIGHT’S OPPONENT – SEATTLE KRAKEN
The Avalanche and Kraken wrap up the season series with the third and final meeting of 2023-24…Seattle is the first opponent to finish its season series against Colorado…The Avs and Kraken split the first two matchups, with the road team winning both games…The Avs are 3-1-0 all-time here at Climate Pledge Arena, 5-2-0 including playoffs.
RECORD vs. KRAKEN
THIS SEASON 2022-23 ALL-TIME
O: 1-1-0 O: 1-1-1 O: 4-3-1
H: 0-1-0 H: 0-1-1 H: 1-2-1
A: 1-0-0 A: 1-0-0 A: 3-1-0
CURRENT INJURY LIST
Andrew Cogliano – upper body (Nov. 11 – present)
Pavel Francouz – lower body (Oct. 11 – present)
Jean-Luc Foudy – lower body (Oct. 11 – present)
Gabriel Landeskog – knee (Oct. 11 – present)
Artturi Lehkonen – upper body (Nov. 11 – present)
Chris Wagner – lower body (Oct. 11 – present)
Man-Games Lost: 61
2022-23 Season Man-Games Lost: 463
RECENT TRANSACTIONS
Nov. 12 – Caleb Jones, Sam Malinski recalled from the Colorado Eagles (AHL)…Joel Kiviranta signed to a one-year contract for the 2023-24 season
Nov. 11 – Riley Tufte and Caleb Jones recalled from the Colorado Eagles (AHL)…Tufte, Jones reassigned to Colorado (AHL)
TONIGHT’S GAME NOTES
AVS SIGN KIVIRANTA
The Avalanche yesterday signed forward Joel Kiviranta to a one-year deal for the remainder of the 2023-24 season…The 27-year-old native of Vantaa, Finland attended training camp on a PTO before signing an AHL deal with the Colorado Eagles, where he hassix points(2g/4a) in 10 games…Kiviranta entered 2023-24 with 28 points (16g/12a) in 163 career regular-season NHL games as well as 12 points (6g/6a) in 36 Stanley Cup Playoff contests, all with the Dallas Stars…Kiviranta scored a hat trick, which included the overtime series winning goal in Game 7 of the second round against Colorado in 2020.
SEATTLE KRAKEN NOTES:
CURRENT INJURIES – (MAN GAMES LOST: 25
Brandon Tanev (lower body; IR) – 14 games – week-to-week
Andre Burakovsky (upper body; IR) – 9 games – week-to-week
Jordan Eberle (lower body) – 2 games – day-to-day
TRANSASCTIONS IN PAST 7 DAYS
Nov. 12, 2023: Reassigned forward Devin Shore to Coachella Valley (AHL)
GAME NOTES
THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW
• Tonight’s matchup with Colorado is the sixth of 14 games the Kraken will play in November, which is tied with March for their most regular-season games in a single month this season. • Seattle’s current four-game stretch is being played against the same two opponents: Colorado tonight and on Nov. 9 and Edmonton on Nov. 11 and 15. • Tonight’s game is the final time the Kraken will face off against the Avalanche this season. A win tonight would give them their first series win of the season and their second ever against the Avalanche. o Seattle went 2-0-1 against Colorado last season. • Vince Dunn enters tonight’s game riding a three-game point streak against the Avalanche, totaling four assists during that span. • Eeli Tolvanen enters tonight’s game riding a four-game point streak. A goal or an assist tonight would give him points in five consecutive games for the first time since he also recorded a five-game point streak from Feb. 10 to 18, 2023. • The Kraken have opened the scoring in 10 of the 15 games they have played this season, which was tied with the Golden Knights, Penguins and Rangers for the most in the NHL this season entering play Sunday. • Entering play Sunday, Tye Kartye ranked second among all NHL rookies with 33 shots on goal this season, trailing only Chicago’s Connor Bedard (39) for the league lead. • Joey Daccord’s next win (three) and next start (seven) will both be his most in a single NHL season. • Entering play Sunday, Adam Larsson, who has 35 hits and 30 blocked shots this year, was one of five skaters this season to total at least 30 hits and 30 blocked shots. • Larsson has totaled 197 points (41 goals, 156 assists) in his NHL career. Currently three points shy, he is set to become the third defenseman from the 2011 NHL draft class to total 200 or more career points, trailing only Dougie Hamilton (455) and Jonas Brodin (219).
FAMILIAR FOES
• If they play, tonight’s game will mark the third matchup of the season against Colorado for former Avs Pierre-Edouard Bellemare and Philipp Grubauer. • Bellemare played for the Avalanche from 2019-20 to 2020-21, totaling 33 points (18 goals, 15 assists) in 122 regular-season games and adding six points (two goals, four assists) in 25 playoff games. • Grubauer was traded to Colorado during the 2018 offseason and went on to play for them for three seasons (2018-19 to 2020- 21), posting a 66-30-10 record with a 2.38 goals-against average and a .918 save percentage. He also appeared in 29 playoff games for the Avalanche, posting an 18-9-1 record with a 2.31 goals-against average and a .920 save percentage. • Andre Burakovsky, who is currently on injured reserve, spent three seasons with the Colorado Avalanche (2019-20 to 2021- 22) after being traded to the team from Washington during the 2019 offseason, totaling 150 points (61 goals, 89 assists) in 191 regular-season games. His 150 points were the sixth-most by a Colorado skater during that span and he ranked in the top five on the team in both goals (fourth) and assists (fifth) from 2019-20 to the conclusion of the 2021-22 season. • The forward added 29 points (11 goals, 18 assists) in 37 total postseason games en route to winning the 2022 Staley Cup with the Avalanche.
POWER UP • The Kraken have gone 9-for-27 on the power play dating back to Oct. 24 at Detroit. The team’s 33.3 percent success rate on the power play from Oct. 24 on ranked third in the NHL entering play Sunday, trailing only the New York Rangers (40.7 percent) and New Jersey Devils (35.5 percent). • In all this season, the Kraken have had a 26.7 percent success rate on the power play, which ranked seventh in the league entering play Sunday. • The Kraken have scored on the power play in their last six games played, which is a franchise record. If they were to score again tonight, they would become the second team this season to score a power-play goal in seven consecutive games, joining the Ottawa Senators who scored a power-play goal in eight straight games from Oct. 18 to Nov. 8. • The team’s current six-game streak of scoring on the power play was the longest active streak in the NHL entering play Sunday. • Entering play Sunday, Jaden Schwartz was tied for second in the NHL with five power-play goals this season. His five powerplay goals are already tied for the fifth-most of his career and are only four shy of the career-high nine he scored in 2019-20 with the St. Louis Blues.
