9:05 pm
December 29

Blackhawks @ Avalanche

Who will WIN this matchup?

Chicago Blackhawks (14-20-6)

@ Colorado Avalanche (19-13-6)

 

Starting Goalies:

Collin Delia (CHI): Confirmed

Semyon Varlamov (COL): Unconfirmed

 

Current odds:

Chicago Blackhawks: (+190)

Colorado Avalanche: (-230)

 

• Kane leads the club with 20 goals and 47 points, and is riding a six-game point streak during which he has accumulated five and five. Alex DeBrincat (17 goals, 32 points) scored in three straight games prior to being held to an assist Thursday while captain Jonathan Toews (16, 34) has three assists in his last two games. Delia made 46 saves against Minnesota in his second start of the season as the 24-year-old Californian shares goaltending duties with Cam Ward while No. 1 Corey Crawford recovers from another concussion.

• Mikko Rantanen (60 points) lost his league lead to Tampa Bay’s Nikita Kucherov (61) despite recording five goals and 17 points in 12 December games. Nathan MacKinnon, who Thursday was named Central Division captain for next month’s All-Star Game, is third in the NHL in points (57) after totaling four goals and 12 assists this month. Gabriel Landeskog (team-high 24 goals, 43 points), the third member of the league’s most productive line, has nine goals and six assists in December.

• Chicago scored more than one power-play goal in a game for the first time this season with two Thursday, raising its percentage to 14.3 – fifth-worst in the league entering Friday.

6/10
Confidence
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Colorado Avalanche
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