Tonight at 8:00 p.m. ET, the Colorado Avalanche (14-3-0, 28 points) and the St. Louis Blues (11-2-3, 25 points) hit the ice live from the Scottrade Center in St. Louis for the first of four meetings against each other this season. The game can be live streamed here. Colorado fans can hear all of the action on KRWZ-950 while St. Louis fans can do the same on KMOX-1120.
Both teams enter play looking to avoid hitting a two-game losing streak while Colorado has won eight out of its last 10 games and St. Louis has won six out of its last 10.
The Avalanche is coming off of a 2-1 loss to the Carolina Hurricanes and will look to avoid dropping two straight games for the first time this season tonight.
"I think we played good enough to win," coach Patrick Roy told The Denver Post after the latest loss. "We just have to get ready for the next one. Our motto is the same: One day at a time."
The Blues are coming off of an overtime loss to the Phoenix Coyotes by a 3-2 margin on Tuesday and will hope to right the ship tonight.
"Our first focus is to play with good intensity and play strong defensively," Maxim Lapierre, whose point streak reached three games in Tuesday's loss, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "Personally I would like to focus on coming back to the player I was about three or four years ago when I had that 15-goal season [for the Montreal Canadiens]."
The Blues have been led by Alex Steen, who has an 11-game point streak and is tied for the league lead with 14 goals and has added eight helpers for 22 points while David Backes is second on the team with 16 points off of six tallies and 10 assists and Alex Pietrangelo has lit the lamp four times and added nine assists for 13 points.
The Blues will likely have to beat Semyon Varlamov, who has started between the pipes for the Avalanche in 12 of 17 games and is a solid 9-3-0 with a 2.01 goals-against average and a .936 save percentage. The Blues are likely to counter with Jaroslav Halak, who is an impressive 9-2-2 with a 2.25 GAA and a 909 save percentage.
If Halak gets the nod, he'll have to stop a Colorado offense that is led by Matt Duchene, who leads the team in points (19) and goals (11) and has eight assists while Paul Stastny has a four-game point streak for a total of seven tallies and seven helpers on the season and Gabriel Landeskog also has 14 points off of six goals and eight assists.
Both of these teams are looking to avoid suffering through two-game losing streaks when the lights come on at Scottrade Center tonight in St. Louis.
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