Tonight at 7:30 p.m. ET, the Colorado Avalanche (35-14-5, 75 points) and New Jersey Devils (23-21-12, 58 points) skate against each other live from the Prudential Center in New Jersey for their second and final meeting this season. The game can be live streamed here. Colorado fans can hear all of the bone-crunching action on KRWZ 950 while New Jersey fans can do the same on 101,9 WFAN.
Colorado has won three straight games and has earned eight victories out of their last 10 while New Jersey has lost three of its last four games. The first time these two teams met, the Avalanche defeated the Devils 2-1 in a shootout on Jan. 16 in Colorado.
The Avalanche are coming off of a 7-1 over the Buffalo Sabres on Saturday where rookie Nathan McKinnon notched a career-high with a three-point game.
"I've been feeling more comfortable. I think I was a little snake-bit at the beginning and could've scored more than I did," MacKinnon said per NHL.com. "Thankfully things are clicking, I've developed chemistry with guys on the team. Everybody talks about the jump from junior to the NHL, but hockey is hockey and I've been getting back to a lot of things that got me to this league."
MacKinnon is third on the team with 40 points off of 20 goals and 20 assists while Gabriel Landeskog is 2-5-7 in his last in his last five games and is second on the team with 43 points off of 16 tallies and 27 helpers and Matt Duchene leads the team with 47 points while lighting the lamp 17 times and adding 30 assists.
The Devils squandered a 2-1 lead against the Nashville Predators with 10.8 seconds remaining in the game and ended up losing 3-2 on Friday. Coach Pete DeBoer was in no mood to discuss his team's knack for blowing leads late.
"It happens to everybody," DeBoer told NHL.com. "You guys all look for tendencies; they can't hold the lead, they can't score. You know what? Give me a break. It's four games in six nights. We battled hard. We got an unfortunate bounce at the end. We'll take the point and we'll move on."
Jaromir Jagr leads the team with 48 points off of 17 goals and 31 assists while Patrik Elias is 4-4-8 in his last six games and has 11 markers and 22 helpers for 33 points and Travis Zajac (nine goals, 20 assists) and Marek Zidlicky (eight tallies, 21 helpers) each have 29 points.
In net, New Jersey will likely turn to Martin Brodeur, who is 13-11-4 with a 2.52 goals-against average and a .899 save percentage while Semyon Varlamov will likely play between the pipes for Colorado, and he's 28-9-5 with a 2.43 GAA and a .925 save percentage.
The Avalanche look for their fourth straight win while the Devils try to bounce back from a tough loss when the lights come up at the Prudential Center tonight in New Jersey.
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