As the regular season winds down there’s still a reason to find intrigue in this meeting between the Edmonton Oilers and the visiting Colorado Avalanche. In what could potentially be a playoff meeting down the road, it’s always a chess match and the Avalanche still face this team twice before the post season.
Also of great interest is the Art Ross and Hart Trophy race. Nathan MacKinnon enters this meeting with 130 points, three behind Nikita Kucherov and four ahead of Connor McDavid. MacKinnon’s teammates could do him a great favor by holding the Oilers star forward off the board.