Avalanche Weekly Update - Oct. 30

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Thursday, November 1 at Calgary Flames

Scotiabank Saddledome, 7 p.m. MT, TV: Altitude, Radio: 950 AM
The Avalanche heads across the border to take on the Calgary Flames Thursday night, the first game of a back-to-back set in Canada. The game is technically part of a three-game road trip for Colorado, which returned to Denver after Saturday night's contest in Minnesota. The Avs are in the middle of a heavy road stretch in which they play nine-of-12 and 11-of-15 contests away from home.

Friday, November 2 at Vancouver Canucks

Rogers Arena, 8 p.m. MT, TV: Altitude, Radio: 92.5 FM
Colorado wraps up its back-to-back set in Vancouver on Friday night. This is the second of 11 back-to-back sets the Avs will play this season. Thursday and Friday's games are the Avs' only two contests in a span of 10 days from Oct. 28-Nov. 6, as the team had four days since playing on Saturday and will have four more days between games starting Sunday.

Player Spotlight: Tyson Barrie

Barrie registered three points in Colorado's 6-3 win over the Ottawa Senators on Friday night to bring his career total to 256 points, passing Sandis Ozolinsh (253) to take sole possession of third place on the franchise's all-time list for scoring by a defenseman. He has nine points (0g, 9a) in 12 contests this season, which is tops among Avalanche defensemen and is tied for ninth among league blueliners.

Quotable

"It shows how good of a team we are and how we want to play. Sometimes there is games like that, you have a slow start like we had in the first and then you bounce back in the second to play. Second and third period, we were on the puck. Even when we score 2-1 goal and then right after, seconds later they score 3-1. You could go down, but the whole team knew we were playing better than them, and we wanted to come back and that's what we did." - Avalanche right wing Mikko Rantanen on the team's come-from-behind win over the Ottawa Senators

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