Tonight at 9:00 p.m. ET, the Chicago Blackhawks (14-3-4, 32 points) and the Colorado Avalanche (14-5-0, 28 points) go head-to-head live from the Pepsi Center in the first of two meetings between each other this season. The game can be live streamed here. Chicago fans can hear all of the action by turning their dials to 720 WGN Radio while Colorado fans can do the same on KRWZ-AM 950.
Chicago embarks on a seven-game road trip tonight against their Central Division rivals while Colorado will look to shake off a three-game losing streak after setting a franchise record for the team's best start through 16 games.
Chicago enters play on top of the Central Division, but it had a very ugly game when it lost 7-2 to the Nashville Predators on Saturday, but the team was able to bounce back with a 5-1 win Sunday against the San Jose Sharks.
''We weren't happy with the last game, obviously,'' goalie Corey Crawford said via NHL.com. ''Tonight was one of our better efforts all around, defensively, from everyone in this room."
Crawford is 13-3-3 thus far this season with a 2.42 goals-against average and a .910 save percentage while Semyon Varlamov has started 14 of the Avalanche's 20 games while putting up a 9-5-0 record to go along with a 2.28 GAA and a .927 save percentage.
The Avalanche are hopeful to get off the team's current skid at the expense of the defending Stanley Cup champions after three straight losses.
"I don't know if three games is a slump," Avalanche coach Patrick Roy said Monday after practice, according to NHL.com. "My standpoint is I haven't changed one bit. The start that we have, people start thinking differently of us, which is what we want at some point, but I haven't changed. It's one game at a time and we'll be focused on Chicago [Tuesday] night."
If Colorado is to turn it around, they'll have to do it without their leading scorer as Matt Duchene (oblique) is out at least a week after leading the team with 20 points off of 12 goals and eight assists. Without Duchene, the team will turn to Paul Stastny (seven goals, eight assists) and Gabriel Landeskog (six goals, nine assists), who each have 15 points.
Chicago, meanwhile, has been led by Patrick Kane (11-10-21), Patrick Sharp (7-13-20) and Jonathan Toews (10-9-19) thus far this season.
Two Central Division rivals will square off when the Blackhawks and Avalanche hit the ice tonight in Colorado.
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