The Colorado Avalanche face the New Jersey Devils with both teams having strong starts to the season. The Avalanche have a 4-2-1 record and are near the top of the Central Division while the Devils have a 4-3 record. both teams are looking to improve in their divisions and pad their records early on in the season and the upcoming game should be a great one as result.
The Avalanche are having a great start to the season led by an offense that is scoring 3.43 goals per game. Nathan MacKinnon, Mikko Rantanen, Valeri Nichushkin have scored 13 goals and 18 assists to lead the top two lines but the rest of the offense has also stepped up. Andrew Cogliano, Artturi Lehkonen, and Evan Rodrigues have combined for five goals and five assists while defensemen Cale Makar and Devon Toews have added two goals and 10 assists from the point to put the offense over the top.
The offense has stepped up but the defense has struggled, allowing 3.00 goals per game. Erik Johnson and Bowen Byram have led the top pairing but the rest of the unit has struggled, allowing opponents to carry the puck into the offensive zone and find open shots on the net. The bright spot has been the play in the net from Alexandar Georgiev who has a .921 save percentage and a 2.56 goals-against average on 165 shots.