THE PHOENIX Coyotes aims to move closer to its dream of another National Hockey League playoff stint when they play host to the struggling Colorado Avalanche on Friday evening.Sporting a respectable (42-25-11) record the home-team Phoenix Coyotes are the odds on favorite to prevail over the Colorado Avalanche (28-40-8) in their scheduled NHL game. Read more
The Anaheim Ducks aims for get another morale boosting win when they play host to the struggling Colorado Avalanche on Monday evening in the ongoing National Hockey League regular season.The Anaheim Ducks are very focused on beating the Colorado Avalanche since they want to sweep their season series against the latter and get their 15th victory in 17 meetings with them. Read more
The Colorado Avalanche hopes to avoid matching a franchise-worst eight-game home losing skid from Oct. 21-Nov. 24, 1990 when they play host to the surging Anaheim Ducks on Friday evening.
The home team Colorado Avalanche (26-28-8) is the underdog in their game against the Anaheim Ducks (36-26-5) in the current National Hockey League season. Read more
It might not quite be time to hit the panic button in Calgary, but the Flames are in danger of losing five in a row as they visit a Colorado Avalanche team that seems ready to over-achieve again this year.
This first meeting between these teams was a barn-burner with the Avalanche needing a late goal to score the 6-5 victory. Both teams played their backups in this game with Peter Budaj stopping 14 while Calgary counterpart stopped 30 in the losing cause.
The 6-5 final continued a trend with eight straight games between these two sides being decided by a single goal.
Budaj will get the start again for the Colorado Avalanche (7-5-1, 15 pts) with starting goalie Craig Anderson out. While he can’t be happy with giving up five goals on 19 shots in the win over Calgary, he has since been brilliant getting a shutout his last time out and going 3-1-1 (2.61 GAA) since Anderson went down.
The games between these two teams have been close of late, but the Avalanche have definitely enjoyed the advantage winning seven out of their last nine meetings.
Losing close games has been a theme of late for the Calgary Flames (6-7-0, 12 pts) no matter who they play. They have lost three of their last four by a single goal with most of the blame falling on an offense that has gone in to hibernation.
The Flames have scored just four times in the last three games. Their power play is at 12.9 percent on the season and their goals per game has fallen to 2.62.
It doesn’t help that star goaltender Mikka Kiprusoff is having a rough start to the season with a 3.49 GAA and his backup hasn’t been any better.
