The Colorado Avalanche are in Anaheim tonight, taking on the (formerly Mighty) Ducks in what seems to be a must win situation to maintain the race with the Vancouver Canucks for first place in the Northwest Division. There will a bit of a different roster tonight.
Despite losing Ryan O’Reilly to a bruised foot, the Avalanche did a great job on the penalty kill tonight against the St. Louis Blues. The energy on the ice was high as the Avs came off a 3-0 shutout vs. Edmonton on the 6th. The Blues came out of the gate strong, getting on the scoreboard first, but were soon shut down by the Avalanche’s overall game.
According to Colorado Avalanche Coach Joe Sacco’s pregame, Ryan O’Reilly will not play tonight against the St. Louis Blues. O’Reilly is suffering from a bruised foot, which was injured Saturday night against the Edmonton Oilers. Good news here is that testing came back negative on breaks and further damage, so hopefully he’ll be back soon.
The Colorado Avalanche face off at home against the Columbus Blue Jackets tonight in the fourth meeting between the two teams this season. There are a few things going on with the team that are interesting to take note of.
Avalanche beat reporter Adrian dater has just posted that Ryan Stoa is out indefinitely with a shoulder injury suffered after a hard hit last night in Dallas. Shortly after this hit, I mentioned that Dallas was playing a pretty rough game against the Avs, who fell to the Stars 3-2.
Though the attendance at the Pepsi Center was around 12,000 at last night’s game, you wouldn’t have been able to tell if you could only hear the noise of the crowd. The Avalanche took on a hard team, the Nashville Predators, who came off a loss last night and were looking for a win. Pressure was applied equally by both teams and even though the Avs were short a few key players, they came out on top when the horn sounded.
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