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(NHL) Colorado vs. St. Louis,
Money Line: -166.00 St. Louis (Home)
Result: Loss
Money Line: -166.00 St. Louis (Home)
Result: Loss
The set-up: The Colorado Avalanche have long ago put last year's nightmare season behind them. Colorado finished with league lows in wins (22) and points (48) last season but
continued to strengthen its playoff positioning by beating up on the Minnesota Wild for the third straight time on Tuesday, 5-1. Colorado is riding an eight-game point streak (5-0-3), as it wraps up a two-game road trip with a visit to the St. Louis Blues on Thursday night. The 37-24-8 Avs have 82 points and currently own the West's final wild card spot.
The St. Louis Blues almost torpedoed their postseason hopes by dropping nine of 10 (1-7-2) but they have rebounded with a pair of impressive wins (7-2 at the Kings and 4-2 at the Ducks) to wrap up a four-game road trip and at 37-27-5, have pulled within three points of the Avalanche for that last wild card spot in the West.
Colorado:Nathan MacKinnon ran his point streak to nine games in Tuesday's win at Minnesota (scoring his 33rd goal), scoring eight times in that span. The Avs' center leads the team with 82 points. RW Mikko Rantanen, checks in not far behind him with 70 points (23 goals). Rookie forward J.T. Compher is coming off his first career multi-goal game in Tuesday's win by ending a 14-game point drought by scoring twice Tuesday night, his first goals in the last 17 games (he has 22 points in 56 games). Avalanche goaltender Semyon Varlamov, who has appeared in 14 straight games and will be in net again as Jonathan Bernier continues to deal with a neck injury.
St. Louis: "We could have ... buried ourselves almost to the point of not really having a chance," St. Louis head coach Mike Yeo said. "We still have got a lot of work to do, we're still on the outside looking in, but we're a little bit closer." Jake Allen has been in net for the past three games and will start again Thursday, after Carter Hutton was unable to practice Wednesday when his neck issue flared up. Defenseman Joel Edmundson could be back in the lineup since fracturing his forearm against Colorado on Feb. 8 (he has missed five weeks but has been cleared to play by team doctors). Center Brayden Schenn and RW Vladimir Tarasenko are tied for teh team lead with 58 points, with Tarasenko leading with his 27 goals.,
The pick: The Avs come in on a roll but they have lost all three meetings this season against the Blues and have just one win over St. Louis in the last 10 meetings. considering the fact that Colorado has scored a total of five goals in three meetings versus St. Louis in 2017-18 and has produced more than two goals only once in the last 10 matchups against them, the Blues are an 8* play.
continued to strengthen its playoff positioning by beating up on the Minnesota Wild for the third straight time on Tuesday, 5-1. Colorado is riding an eight-game point streak (5-0-3), as it wraps up a two-game road trip with a visit to the St. Louis Blues on Thursday night. The 37-24-8 Avs have 82 points and currently own the West's final wild card spot.
The St. Louis Blues almost torpedoed their postseason hopes by dropping nine of 10 (1-7-2) but they have rebounded with a pair of impressive wins (7-2 at the Kings and 4-2 at the Ducks) to wrap up a four-game road trip and at 37-27-5, have pulled within three points of the Avalanche for that last wild card spot in the West.
Colorado:Nathan MacKinnon ran his point streak to nine games in Tuesday's win at Minnesota (scoring his 33rd goal), scoring eight times in that span. The Avs' center leads the team with 82 points. RW Mikko Rantanen, checks in not far behind him with 70 points (23 goals). Rookie forward J.T. Compher is coming off his first career multi-goal game in Tuesday's win by ending a 14-game point drought by scoring twice Tuesday night, his first goals in the last 17 games (he has 22 points in 56 games). Avalanche goaltender Semyon Varlamov, who has appeared in 14 straight games and will be in net again as Jonathan Bernier continues to deal with a neck injury.
St. Louis: "We could have ... buried ourselves almost to the point of not really having a chance," St. Louis head coach Mike Yeo said. "We still have got a lot of work to do, we're still on the outside looking in, but we're a little bit closer." Jake Allen has been in net for the past three games and will start again Thursday, after Carter Hutton was unable to practice Wednesday when his neck issue flared up. Defenseman Joel Edmundson could be back in the lineup since fracturing his forearm against Colorado on Feb. 8 (he has missed five weeks but has been cleared to play by team doctors). Center Brayden Schenn and RW Vladimir Tarasenko are tied for teh team lead with 58 points, with Tarasenko leading with his 27 goals.,
The pick: The Avs come in on a roll but they have lost all three meetings this season against the Blues and have just one win over St. Louis in the last 10 meetings. considering the fact that Colorado has scored a total of five goals in three meetings versus St. Louis in 2017-18 and has produced more than two goals only once in the last 10 matchups against them, the Blues are an 8* play.
