The Colorado Avalanche haven’t played a game since Monday.
That means they’ll enter their Friday evening road game nice and rested, but it also means that on paper, they’ve got the same number of wins as their opponents in Las Vegas — and they’ll be ravenous to pick up another win on the road, which has been their notably weaker record through the first few weeks of the season.
On the other side of the ice, the host team is coming off of a stellar 2-1 shootout win over the Chicago Blackhawks — but they lost their previous game 6-2 against the Philadelphia Flyers and should have been able to do more damage to the floundering Chicago roster.