Avalanche Weekly Update - Oct. 23

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Wednesday, October 24 vs. Tampa Bay Lightning

Pepsi Center, 7:30 p.m. MT, TV: NBCSN, Radio: 92.5 FM
The Avalanche returns home on Wednesday night, hosting the Tampa Bay Lightning in the first of a two-game homestand. Colorado was 0-2-0 in last season's series. The Lightning is 5-1-1 to start the season and sits in second place in the Atlantic Division. The Avs are in a stretch of six straight contests against the Eastern Conference.

Friday, October 26 vs. Ottawa Senators

Pepsi Center, 7 p.m. MT, TV: Altitude, Radio: 92.5 FM
The Avalanche hosts the Ottawa Senators on Friday night to close out its short homestand. It will be the first time the Senators have visited Pepsi Center since March 11, 2017, as both games between the clubs last season were played in Stockholm, Sweden, as part of the NHL Global Series.

Saturday, October 27 at Minnesota Wild

Xcel Energy Center, 6 p.m. MT, TV: Altitude, Radio: 92.5 FM
The Avs and Wild clash for their second of four matchups this season and the first one at Xcel Energy Center. It's the second game of a back-to-back set for the Avs, their first of 11 back-to-back contests this season.

Player Spotlight: Gabriel Landeskog

Landeskog helped Colorado earn seven of a possible eight points on the club's four-game road trip, leading the team with nine points (7g, 2a) on the road swing. The Avalanche captain recorded his third career hat trick against the New Jersey Devils on Thursday night, becoming one of six players in Avalanche history (since 1995-96) to tally three career hat tricks.
Landeskog has scored eight goals in the month of October, his highest total for any month in his career. He also notched his fourth-straight multi-point game against the Philadelphia Flyers on Monday night, the longest streak of multi-point games in his career. He was named the NHL's First Star of the Week on Monday (for the week ending Oct. 21), his first time earning an NHL star of the week honor.

Quotable

"We played some good games on the road. Some of the ones when we were a little bit up and down, our big guys were good, our goaltending was good, our special teams were good. We are doing enough to win, and I still think we got room for improvement. I think a lot to like, a lot to build on but a lot to like for sure." - Avalanche head coach Jared Bednar following the team's four-game road trip

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