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Time | Sunday 5:00 PST |
TV | Sportsnet Pacific |
Season Series | 2012/13: 3-1 Canucks |
Last Meeting |
4-3 Avalanche Apr. 13/13 |
The Enemy | Mile High Hockey | Scoring Leaders | H. Sedin: 8-21-29 Landeskog: 9-13-22 |
AVALANCHE |
CATEGORY |
CANUCKS |
20-7-0 | SEASON RECORD | 16-10-5 |
40 | POINTS | 37 |
6th | CONFERENCE POSITION | 9th |
Won 1 |
STREAK | Won 3 |
6-4-0 | LAST 10 | 5-3-2 |
10-3-0 | ROAD RECORD / HOME RECORD | 6-5-3 |
2.96 (7) |
GOALS PER GAME AVERAGE | 2.64 (16) |
2.30 (6) | GOALS AGAINST PER GAME AVERAGE | 2.48 (12) |
1.41 (2) | 5 ON 5 GF / GA | 1.02 (17) |
15.8 (20) | POWER PLAY % | 14.8 (25) |
81.0 (20) | PENALTY KILL % | 89.2 (1) |
29.5 (17) | SHOTS/GAME AVG | 32.8 (4) |
48.9 (20) | FACEOFF WINS % | 50.8 (14) |
672 (17) | HITS |
595 (22) |
414 (13) | BLOCKED SHOTS | 465 (8) |
95 (2) | MINOR PENALTIES TAKEN | 115 (20) |
NHL.COM |
KNOW YOUR ENEMY
As you can see above, a few stats really stick out for the Avalanche. 2nd in the NHL 5 on 5. They've knocked their goals against down dramatically compared to the past few years. They don't take very many penalties. Oh, and that 10-3-0 road record is superb. The Canucks have their work cut out for them. But the Canucks have to keep winning regardless. They are not in a playoff spot yet. In fact, they have barely made any ground for quite some time now. It's like that 9th spot feels nice and cozy or something....****!
One of the Canucks' biggest issues lately is holding on to leads. That needs to be remedied. Now.
PROJECTED AVALANCHE ROSTER
O'Reilly - Stastny - Parenteau
Landeskog - Duchene - MacKinnon
McGinn - Mitchell - Talbot (sweet addition)
Bordeleau - Marc-Andre Cliche - McLeod
Guenin - Johnson
Barrie - Holden (magroin)
Sarich - Benoit
Giguere
Injured: Alex Tanguay, Jan Hejda, Ryan Wilson
TOP 5 AVS SCORERS
1. Landeskog: 9-13-22
2. Duchene: 12-9-21
3. Parenteau: 9-9-18
4. Stastny: 8-9-17
5. O'Reilly: 9-8-17
The Avalanche have a fair bit of scoring depth going on. It is going to cause the Canucks problems I am sure.
The Avs have won 6 of their last 8, but I just don't understand the 8-2 beating they took at the hands of the Oilers a couple games ago. Quite the anomaly for this year's team. This is not the Avs of recent years. A new coach in Patrick Roy and a newfound attitude. Impressive. Squash these bastards!
YOU MADE MY SHITLIST
Nobody after 3 straight wins. As a side note though, is that Sedins-Booth line painful to watch? Or is it just me? It looks a bit awkward to me, but I really want it to work out.
TRENDS
- Avalanche are 6-1 in their last 7 vs. Pacific.
- Avalanche are 5-1 in their last 6 vs. a team with a winning record.
- Avalanche are 4-1 in their last 5 road games.
- Avalanche are 4-1 in their last 5 Sunday games.
- Avalanche are 15-5 in their last 20 games following a win.
- Avalanche are 12-4 in their last 16 vs. Western Conference.
- Canucks are 20-6 in their last 26 home games vs. a team with a road winning % of greater than .600.
- Canucks are 7-3 in their last 10 vs. Central.
- Canucks are 2-5 in their last 7 games following a win.
- Canucks are 2-5 in their last 7 home games.
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Canucks are 3-13 in their last 16 Sunday games. DEAR GOD NO!!!
SCORE-PREDICTING WIZARDS UPDATE
Updated HERE.
THE LAST MEETING:
Ooooo that stings.
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