Colorado Avalanche Gameday: Last Ace in the deck

The Avalanche: (9-4-1)
The Opponent: Vegas Golden Knights (10-4-1)

Puck drop: 7:00 p.m. MT
Watch: ALT, ESPN+, ATTSN-RM
Listen: [Radio] Altitude 92.5, AM 950

The Avalanche will finish their 4 game series versus the Vegas Golden Knights back in Denver after stealing the show in Lake Tahoe on Saturday. Coming off back to back victories against the Golden Knights, this final game will have big implications in the standings as these two teams continue to battle for the top spots in the Honda West division.

Colorado Avalanche

It was great to see the Avs finally get a win in an outdoor game that was delayed for nearly 7 hours on Saturday. The team is finally getting most everyone back into the lineup after a COVID break that allowed some important depth players and top end players time to heal up.

Samuel Girard, Tyson Jost and Gabriel Landeskog also came back from COVID protocol, & Girard made his presence felt scoring the first goal of the outdoor game only three mintues in. Back in Denver for Monday’s finale, second place in the division can temporarily be split between these two squads with a win for the Avalanche.

Forwards

Gabriel Landeskog - Nathan MacKinnon - Mikko Rantanen
Andre Burakovsky - Nazem Kadri - Brandon Saad
Valeri Nichuskin - J.T. Compher - Joonas Donskoi
Tyson Jost - P.E. Bellemare - Matt Calvert

Defense

Samuel Girard - Devon Toews
Ryan Graves - Cale Makar
Connor Timmins - Bowen Byram

Goalies

Phillip Grubauer
Adam Werner

Vegas Golden Knights

The Vegas Golden Knights played well in the outdoor game but still couldn’t find the back of the net in time to avoid dropping their second game in a row. The talent is not lacking on this squad, and the goaltending can always steal a win for VGK. Mark Stone and Max Pacioretty lead the team in points while Shea Theodore’s return to the ice will help their D core for tonight’s game.

It is unclear if Marc Andre Fleury will tend the twine tonight or if Robin Lehner will return after missing the last 6 games due to an upper body injury.

Max Pacioretty - Chandler Stephenson - Mark Stone

Jonathan Marchessault - William Karlsson - Reilly Smith

Keegan Kolesar - Cody Glass - Alex Tuch

William Carrier - Nicolas Roy - Ryan Reaves

Alec Martinez - Alex Pietrangelo

Nic Hague - Zach Whitecloud

Nick Holden - Shea Theodore

Marc Andre Fleury

Robin Lehner