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The Colorado Avalanche (15-6-0, 30 points, 1st Central) hit the road Thursday with a visit to the desert Southwest to play the Arizona Coyotes (10-9-2, 22 points, 5th Central). Colorado defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning 4-1 on Monday night for their fourth consecutive victory and seventh win in the last eight. Arizona defeated the Tampa Bay Lightning 3-1 on Tuesday night for their second consecutive victory. Colorado will play without LW Gabriel Landeskog, LW Artturi Lehkonen and G Pavel Francouz. Arizona will play without D Travis Dermott, D Juuso Valimaki and C Barrett Hayton.
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The Colorado Avalanche are averaging 3.76 goals per game which is third best in the NHL. Colorado takes the 7th most shots per game at 32.1, while winning only 47.2% of its face offs, which is 26th. The Avalanche are 18th on the power play, scoring 19.8% of the time. Mikko Rantanen has scored a team high 12 goals for Colorado and Valeri Nichushkin is second with 10. Cale Makar is the leader in assists with 26 and Nathan MacKinnon is second with 21. Makar is the points leader with 32 and Mackinnon is second with 28.
Colorado has a goals against average of 2.81, which is 10th in the NHL. The Avalanche are allowing an average of only 28.1 shots per game which is sixth lowest and have the third best penalty kill unit, with a success rate of 88%. Colorado goalie Alexandar Georgiev is 13-5-0 with a 2.84 goals against average, .898 save percentage and one shutout. Colorado has won each of the last three games that Georgiev has been between the pipes and six of the last seven.
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