7:09 pm
December 8

Avalanche @ Lightning

Who will WIN this matchup?

Colorado Avalanche (17-7-5)

@ Tampa Bay Lightning (22-7-1)

 

Starting Goalies:

Semyon Varlamov (COL): Confirmed

Louis Domingue (TB): Projected

 

Current odds:

Colorado Avalanche: (TBD)

Tampa Bay Lightning: (TBD)

 

• Bednar split up his top line for the third period and J.T. Compher took advantage with the go-ahead goal while playing with captain Gabriel Landeskog and Nathan MacKinnon. “I felt like our top guys were struggling to gain traction,” Bednar told reporters. “. … I thought maybe I flip them (and) sometimes you can get a spark, and if I didn’t like it I could just move it back real quick.” NHL leading scorer Mikko Rantanen had a goal with the top unit before being switched with Compher for the final 20 minutes and boasts a career-best 10-game point streak (five goals, 13 assists).

• Forward Mathieu Joseph has four goals in the last four games to push his total to nine on the season, tied for second in the league among rookies entering Friday. “He’s playing great,” Tampa Bay center Anthony Cirelli told reporters of Joseph, who led AHL Syracuse in scoring last season. “You can just tell with his speed and the way that he moves and his hands kind of keep up with him.” Right wing Nikita Kucherov leads the team with 43 points – 25 in the last 12 games – and center Brayden Point has 12 goals in the same span to tie for the league lead through Thursday with 21.

• Colorado C Carl Soderberg has three goals in the last two games to become the fourth player on the team in double digits with 11.

5/10
Confidence
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Tampa Bay Lightning
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