Game Preview: Avalanche vs. Canucks

COLORADO AVALANCHE (11-5-1) VS VANCOUVER CANUCKS (6-10-3)
8 PM MT | BALL ARENAWATCH:ALTITUDELISTEN: 92.5FM/950 AM
Riding a three-game win streak, the Colorado Avalanche return to Ball Arena as they take on the Vancouver Canucks Wednesday night. Coverage is slated to begin at 8 p.m. on Altitude Sports.

Wednesday's meeting between the two teams is the first of a three-game series versus the Canucks this season. The final two matchups are both in Vancouver on Jan. 5 & 20.

LAST TIME OUT

Coming off a perfect 3-0 road trip, the Avalanche took care of business in Dallas on Monday night with a 3-2 shootout victory. Cale Makar scored off a blistering one-timer that went top shelf to tally his 200th career point (195 GP), becoming the fastest defenseman ever to reach the milestone and 12 games fewer than the previous best mark (Sergei Zubov - 207 GP).
Alex Newhook scored in the third period to extend his point streak to three games, before Mikko Rantanen found the back of the net in the third round of the shootout to give the Avs their seventh win in the last eight games.
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Vancouver suffered a 5-4 defeat against the Vegas Golden Knights Monday night after giving up three unanswered goals in the third period. Quinn Hughes notched two assists and four different Canucks found the back of the net (Elias Pettersson, Bo Horvat, Andrei Kuzmenko and Luke Schenn).

HISTORY

Colorado owns a 78-65-26 all-time mark versus Vancouver, with a 62-44-18 record since 1995-96.
The Avs went 2-1 against the Canucks in the 2021-22 regular season, that included a 12-6 scoring margin.

SCOUTING THE CANUCKS

Vancouver enters Wednesday's contest having won two of their last three games. The Canucks offense is one of the league's best this season, averaging 3.47 goals per game which is ranked sixth overall.
Elias Pettersson paces the Canuck offense with 23 points (10G, 13A), while Bo Horvat is in second with 21 (15G, 6A). Horvat's 15 goals is ranked second in the league, only behind Edmonton's Connor McDavid (16G). Defenseman Quinn Hughes is tied for the league lead among blueliners with 18 assists.
Luke Schenn has the most hits in the league at 84 through 19 games played.

DOING THE MOST

Cale Makar has averaged two points per game in his four contests versus Vancouver.

NUMBERS GAME

200
Monday night, Cale Makar became the fastest defenseman in league history to reach 200 points with just 195 games played. Makar is also the only blueliner to reach 200 points in fewer than 200 games.
34.5%
Colorado is 20-of-58 (34.5%) on the power play this season, ranking first in the NHL. Monday in Dallas, the Avs scored a power play goal which marks their sixth straight contest with a goal on the man-advantage.
7
Artturi Lehkonen is currently on a career-best seven-game point streak, dating back to Nov. 4 against Columbus. Lehkonen has tallied eight points (4G, 4A) during the span.

QUOTE(S) THAT LEFT A MARK

"If we don't have this group of guys I wouldn't be hitting these milestones,"- Defenseman Cale Makar on hitting the historical 200 point mark