Game Preview: Avalanche at Ducks

COLORADO AVALANCHE (43-23-6) AT ANAHEIM DUCKS (23-40-10)
8 PM MT | HONDA CENTERWATCH:ALTITUDELISTEN: 92.5FM/950 AM
The Colorado Avalanche face off against the Anaheim Ducks Monday night in the second game of a back-to-back. Coverage begins at 8 p.m. MT on Altitude Sports.

LAST TIME OUT

Colorado enters Monday's matchup after a 4-3 shootout victory in Arizona on Sunday afternoon. Valeri Nichushkin tallied the shootout winner and also netted his 10th power play goal of the season. Mikko Rantanen scored his team-leading 48th goal, while Bowen Byram found the back of the net for his eighth of the year.
Anaheim fell to the St. Louis Blues, 6-3, Saturday night at the Honda Center. Troy Terry recorded two points (1G, 1A). Ryan Strome scored his 14th goal of the season, while Nikita Nesterenko found the back of the net for his first NHL goal. John Gibson made 30 saves. Anaheim is 2-6-2 in their last 10 games.

HISTORY

Colorado owns a 51-36-19 all-time record against Anaheim, with a 24-16-12 mark on the road.
Since the franchise moved to Denver in 1995-96, the Avs are 50-35-19 versus the Ducks.
Monday's matchups is the second of three outings between the two teams this season, with the final contest in Anaheim on April 9. In the first meeting, the Avs fell to the Ducks 5-3 on Jan. 26 in Denver. Mikko Rantanen scored twice and Samuel Girard found the back of the net as well.

SCOUTING THE DUCKS

Trevor Zegras paces Anaheim in scoring with 59 points (22G, 37A), topping the team in both goals and assists. Troy Terry is in second with 56 points (21G, 35A).
First year player Mason McTavish is tied for second amongst all NHL rookie point leaders with 42 (16G, 26A), and ranks third in assists.

LINEUP UPDATES

Avalanche

Pavel Francouz Lower body
Gabriel LandeskogLower body
Josh Manson Lower body
Artturi Lehkonen Upper body

Ducks

Adam Henrique Lower body
Urho Vaakanainen * Lower body
Jamie Drysdale* * Upper body
John Moore* Unknown
Anthony Stolarz Lower body

DOING THE MOST

MacKinnon leads all-active Avs skaters with 28 points (11G, 17A) in 27 games played against Anaheim.
Rantanen has averaged 1.00 points-per-game (13G, 9A) in 22 contests against the Ducks.

BEHIND ENEMY LINES

Jakob Silverberg leads the Ducks with 19 points (10G, 9A) in 33 outings against Colorado.

NUMBERS GAME

37
Rantanen notched his 37th even-strength goal of the season, the fifth-most even-strength tallies in a single season in franchise history and the most in a single campaign since Michel Goulet scored 38 in 1984-85. The Finnish native is now two goals shy of becoming the Avalanche's first 50-goal scorer since Milan Hejduk in 2002-03.
17 & 25
Logan O'Connor set a new single-season career high in both points (25) and assists (17) after he tallied a helper in Arizona on Sunday.
11th
Colorado opened its 11th back-to-back set of the season and is 14-5-2 overall in back-to-backs in 2022-23, including a 7-3-1 record in the first game and a 7-2-1 mark in the second.