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Colorado are huge favorites heading into tonight s game given their brilliant regular season form Mandatory Credit: Ron Chenoy-USA TODAY Sports
Our hockey expert is here to offer up his best Avalanche vs Blues predictions and picks ahead of their NHL Playoff clash this evening, which starts at 10PM EST on NBCSN.
The Colorado Avalanche head into tonight s game against the Blues as heavy favorites, and rightly so given how much better they were than St Louis during the regular season.
Colorado have an impressive recent record against St Louis, and given this, we re going with the Avalanche to get their playoff campaign off to a good start this evening.
Las Vegas Weekly
Player of the Weekly Mark Stone
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Player of the Weekly:
Mark Stone
The Golden Knights’ captain had an eye-popping 10 points in four games last week including a franchise-record five assists (all primary) in a March 1 overtime win against the Wild to earn the NHL’s First Star of the Week. At press time, he led the Golden Knights with 27 points and ranked seventh in the NHL with 21 assists.
This week’s vote:
Season standings
3. Max Pacioretty (18 points)
4. Alex Tuch (15 points)
5. Jonathan Marchessault (13 points) 5 points for 1st place in a week, 4 for 2nd, 3 for 3rd, 2 for 4th, 1 for 5th.
Las Vegas Weekly
Marc-André Fleury
Player of the Weekly:
Marc-André Fleury
The goalie started all four games last week and won three of them including back-to-back contests Saturday and Sunday compiling a .943 save percentage and 1.51 goals-against average in the process and shutting out the Avalanche. He was also named the NHL’s second star of the week.
This week’s vote:
As voted by
Season standings
2. Mark Stone (14 points)
3. Marc-André Fleury (12 points)
4. Jonathan Marchessault (11 points)
5. Shea Theodore (7 points) 5 points for 1st place in a week, 4 for 2nd, 3 for 3rd, 2 for 4th, 1 for 5th.
Upcoming Games
February 22 vs. Colorado Avalanche, 6 p.m.