EDMONTON OILERS NOTES:
ALL-TIME RECORDS vs. COLORADO GP RECORD HOME (63) AWAY (64) GF GA
OILERS ALL-TIME vs. COLORADO 127 51-55-6-15 27-24-4-8 24-31-2-7 370 413
OILERS vs. COLORADO – 2022-23 2 0-0-2 0-0-1 0-0-1 7 9
QUICK FACTS
Tuesday’s game will mark Edmonton’s third and final meeting against the Avalanche this season and the second of two games in Denver.
The last time these teams met was on Feb. 19th in Colorado where the Avalanche defeated the Oilers 6-5 in overtime.
Evander Kane and Connor McDavid lead the team lead with 29 career points against the Avalanche and Kane has also played in a team leading 31 games against Colorado.
LAST 10 GAMES vs. COLORADO
Record: 1-5-4
GF: 30 GA: 43
2022-23 2/19/23 @ COL 6-5 L (OT)
2022-23 1/7/23 @ EDM 3-2 L (OT)
*2021-22 6/6/22 @ EDM 6-5 L (OT)
*2021-22 6/4/22 @ EDM 4-2 L
*2021-22 6/2/22 @ COL 4-0 L
*2021-22 5/31/22 @ COL 8-6 L
2021-22 4/22/22 @ EDM 6-3 W
2021-22 4/9/22 @ EDM 2-1 L (SO)
2021-22 3/21/22 @ COL 3-2 L (OT)
2019-20 11/27/19 @ COL 4-1 L
*Notes Playoff Game
COLORADO AVALANCHE NOTES:
TONIGHT’S GAME
COLORADO AVALANCHE (49-24-6, 104 PTS) vs. EDMONTON OILERS (48-23-9, 105 PTS)
7:45 p.m. – Ball Arena, Denver, Colorado
ESPN, SN1 / 92.5 FM
The Colorado Avalanche open their final homestand of the 2022-23 regular season tonight against the Edmonton Oilers at Ball Arena …. The Avs will host Winnipeg on Thursday before concluding the regular season schedule on Friday night in Nashville, a makeup game from Nov. 26 … The Avs, who just completed a 4-0-0 road trip, have won five consecutive games, one shy of matching their season-high win streak set on three previous occasions … The Avalanche are 14-2-0 in their last 16 games, 21-5-1 in their last 27 contests and 29-7-3 in their last 39 games … Colorado is 12-5-2 in its last 19 at Ball Arena… The Avalanche have won 10 consecutive road games, the longest road winning streak in franchise history… Colorado is 14- 1-0 in its last 15 road contests and 17-2-1 in its last 20 away from the Mile High City.
ON THE CALL
ESPN: Sean McDonough (play-by-play), Ray Ferraro (analyst), Emily Kaplan (reporter)
Sportsnet: Jack Michaels (play-by-play), Louie DeBrusk (analyst), Gene Principe (host/reporter)
Altitude Radio: Conor McGahey, Mark Rycroft
LAST GAME
April 9 – Colorado 5, Anaheim 4 in overtime (at Honda Center)
Nathan MacKinnon tied the game at 15:28 of the third period on a power-play goal and scored again on another power play with 45 seconds remaining in overtime to give the Avalanche a 5-4 victory over the Ducks … MacKinnon also had an assist, while Mikko Rantanen scored twice—his 53rd and 54th tallies of the season—and added two assists of his own … J.T. Compher notched the other goal for Colorado and Pavel Francouz picked up the win in his first start since Feb. 7 … Colorado out-shot Anaheim 46-23, including a 39-14 margin over the final two periods and OT … The Avs went 3-for-8 with the man advantage and killed off all three Ducks power plays.
SF: 46 SA: 23 PP: 3-8 PK: 3-3
The Avalanche won their franchise-record 10th consecutive road game, topping the previous best of nine straight away victories set in 2019-20 … One night after breaking the franchise record for road wins in a single season (now 28), the Avs broke the franchise mark for road points in a season with 57 … Colorado is 14-1-0 in its last 15 road contests and 17-2-1 in its last 20 Colorado won its fifth consecutive game overall …. The Avs are 14-2-0 in their last 16 games, 21-5-1 in their last 27 contests and 29-7-3 in their last 39 games The Avalanche finished 4-0-0 on their four-game California road trip and have won 11 consecutive games in the state of California …. Over the last four seasons (since 2019-20), the Avalanche are 20-5-0 in the Golden State, going 7-1- 0 in Anaheim, 7-2-0 in Los Angeles and 6-2-0 in San Jose The Avalanche swept the Southern California back-to-back, their third straight back-to-back sweep … In fact, the Avs have swept seven of their last nine sets of back-to-back games …. The Avalanche are 17-5-2 overall in back-to-back contests this year and a league-best 9-2-1 in the second game (.792) Colorado recorded its 15th victory in games beyond regulation (15-6), the most of any team in the NHL The Avalanche scored the first goal of the game for a league-high 50th time in 2022-23 Rantanen scored his 53rd and 54th goals of the season, tying the single season Avalanche record set by Joe Sakic in 2000-01 Rantanen reached the 100-point mark for the first time in his career … He joins Jari Kurri (six times) and Teemu Selanne (four times) as the only Finnish players in NHL history to surpass the century mark in points MacKinnon (107 points) and Rantanen (102) became just the second pair of teammates in Avalanche history to both reach 100 points in the same season, joining Peter Forsberg (116) and Joe Sakic (120) in 1995-96 Rantanen notched his sixth 4-point game of the year, second in the NHL behind only Connor McDavid (10) … It’s the most 4-point games in a season by a Colorado player since 1995-96, when Peter Forsberg had nine and Sakic six Rantanen’s effort was his 17th career 4-point night, passing Anton Stastny (16) for the fifth most 4-point outings in franchise history Rantanen’s two goals marked his 11th multi-goal game of the season, one shy of Sakic’s Avalanche record set in 1995-96 … Only McDavid (14) has more multi-goal nights this season Rantanen (219 career goals) passed Peter Forsberg (217) for eighth place on the franchise’s all-time goals list, while MacKinnon (755 career points) moved into a tie with Forsberg for fifth place on the franchise’s all-time points list MacKinnon notched his 35th multi-point game of the season, tying Joe Sakic (1995-96) for the most multi-point games in a single season in Avalanche history MacKinnon notched his fourth game-winning goal in the month of April alone, the most of any player, and has now tallied the game-winning goal in five of Colorado’s last seven contests going back to March 27 … The only other players in the NHL’s expansion era (since 1967-68) to score at least five game-winning goals in a span of seven team games are Patrik Elias (5 GWG with New Jersey in 1997-98) and Michel Goulet (5 GWG with Quebec in 1983-84) MacKinnon scored his 11th career regular season overtime goal, extending his franchise record The Avs improved to 4-1-1 all-time on Easter Sunday Devon Toews tied his career high with three assists (sixth time)
RECENT TRANSACTIONS
Apr. 9 – Jonas Johansson reassigned to the Colorado Eagles (AHL)
CURRENT INJURIES
Bowen Byram – illness (April 8 – present)
Darren Helm – lower body (April 4 – present)
Gabriel Landeskog – knee (Oct. 12 – present)
Artturi Lehkonen – finger (March 15 – present)
Cale Makar – lower body (April 4 – present)
Josh Manson – lower body (March 4 – present)
Total Man-Game Lost: 448
TONIGHT’S OPPONENT – EDMONTON OILERS
The Avalanche and Oilers close out the season series with the third and final meeting of 2022-23 … Colorado won the first two matchups, both in overtime … The Avs rallied from 0-3 and 3-5 deficits to beat the Oilers in the last meeting on Feb. 19 here in Denver … The Avalanche finished 2-1-0 against the Oilers last season and went on to sweep Edmonton in the 2022 Western Conference Final … Colorado/Quebec is 82-76-13 all-time against the Oilers, its most wins against any opponent, and 70-46-11 since relocating to Denver, also the most wins versus any team.
SCHEDULE vs. OILERS
Jan. 7 @ Edmonton (W, 3-2 OT)
Feb. 19 vs. EDMONTON (W, 6-5 OT)
Apr. 11 vs. EDMONTON
RECORD vs. OILERS
THIS SEASON 2021-22 2022 PLAYOFFS ALL-TIME SINCE 1995-96 ALL-TIME PLAYOFFS
Overall: 2-0-0 Overall: 2-1-0 Overall: 4-0 Overall: 82-76-13 Overall: 70-46-11 Series: 3 (2-1)
Home: 1-0-0 Home: 1-0-0 Home: 2-0 Home: 45-36-5 Home: 38-23-3 W-L Record: 11-5
Road: 1-0-0 Road: 1-1-0 Road: 2-0 Road: 37-40-8 Road: 32-23-8 Last: 2022 WCF (W, 4-0)
PICK SIX
The Avalanche have won five consecutive games, one shy of matching their season-high win streak set on three previous occasions … All three of their six-game win streaks have come since the calendar flipped to 2023 … The club had a six-game winning streak in January, another in February and one in March … Only Boston (six) has more 6+ game winning streaks.
FIRST AND FOREMOST
The Avalanche have scored the first goal of the game on 50 occasions this year, the most of any team in the NHL … Colorado is 39-7-4 when scoring first, the second-most wins when potting the first goal behind Boston (42).
