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The Colorado Avalanche (1-0-0, 2 points, 1st Central) pay a visit to Northern California Saturday to play the San Jose Sharks (0-1-0, 0 points, T-4th Pacific) in the second game of the NHL regular season for both teams. Colorado opened its regular season with a 5-2 victory over the LA Kings on Wednesday, while San Jose opened with a 4-1 loss to the Vegas Golden Knights on Thursday. Colorado will play without Pavel Francouz, Gabriel Landeskog and Chris Wagner. San Jose will play without Logan Couture, Jacob McDonald and Radim Simek. Looking to win big on the hockey slate? NHL Free Picks are here for you.
Colorado opened this regular season with five goals, two of which were scored by Mikko Rantanen, who became the third player in the history of the NHL to have four points or more in consecutive season openers. Rantanen had two goals and two assists on the night. Nathan MacKinnon scored one goal and had a pair of assists and Cale Makar added a goal and an assist. Colorado won its 12th consecutive regular season road game dating back to the end of last season. Colorado goalie Alexandar Georgiev made 35 saves. Nobody does it better when it comes to NHL picks!
After just one game of the regular season, Colorado is 4th in goals scored with five, fourth in shots taken with 37 and 4th in the power play with a 33.3% success rate. On the other end of the ice, Colorado is 19th in goals against with two and 26th in shots against with 36. Colorado's penalty kill unit was perfect on opening night, successfully holding their opponents scoreless while short-handed three times. Georgiev is 1-0-0 with a 2.00 goals against average and .944 save percentage, pushing aside 34 of 36 shots faced in goal.
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