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Get your game notes: Kings at Avalanche

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This evening on NBCSN, it’s the Colorado Avalanche hosting the L.A. Kings starting at 10 p.m. ET. Following are some game notes, as compiled by the NHL on NBC research team:

-- Los Angeles, 3rd in the Pacific Division, visits Colorado, 3rd in the Central Division, in the third and final meeting this season. The teams split the first two matchups, both in L.A., with the Avalanche winning 1-0 in OT on Nov. 23 & the Kings winning 3-2 in a shootout on Dec. 21.

-- Overall, the Kings have lost nine of their last 11 games (2-8-1), but did win their last game before the break, 2-1 OT vs. CBJ on Feb. 6. The Avalanche have won 10 of their past 14 including also winning their final game prior to the Olympics, 5-2 at NYI on Feb 8.

-- Colorado, 19-7-3 at home this season, has won their last two home games & earned a point in eight of their last 10 at home (7-2-1). They played their last four games before the Olympics on the road however and last played at the Pepsi Center on Feb. 1, 7-1 win over BUF. Conversely, L.A. played their last four games before the break at home and last was on the road for a 3-0 loss at PHX on Jan. 28. The Kings are 2-9-1 in their last 12 road games.

-- Six Kings return from competing in Sochi: Dustin Brown (USA), Drew Doughty (CAN), Jonathan Quick (USA), Jeff Carter (CAN), Slava Voynov (RUS) & Anze Kopitar (SLO) while four Avalanche players participated in the Olympics as well: Paul Stastny (USA), Semyon Varlamov (RUS), Matt Duchene (CAN) & Gabriel Landeskog (SWE).


  • Brown, Quick (L.A.) & Stastny (COL) left Sochi without a medal while Doughty, Carter (L.A.) & Duchene (COL) each won the top prize, Doughty’s second gold.
  • Voynov (L.A.) & Varlamov (COL), playing for the host country, also return without a medal while Kopitar has no hardware to show for his efforts as well although his country did win their first-ever Olympic hockey game participating in their first-ever Olympic hockey tournament.
  • Landeskog won silver with team Sweden.

-- 63 NHLers – representing 25 of the league’s 30 clubs – won a medal.

-- Since Jan. 1, Colorado boasts the second highest points percentage in the league at .711 (13-5-1, 27 points). PIT is the only team with a better stretch at .750 (11-3-2, 24 points). The Avalanche currently have their third best record after 58 games in franchise history (79 points) – in 1996-97 they had 80 points through 58 games and 82 points in the 2000-01 season after the same amount of games.

-- Jonathan Quick, who backstopped team USA in Sochi, is expected to be back in net for the Kings tonight. In Russia, he stopped 132 of 143 shots (.923 SV%) and had a 2.17 GAA. Quick’s record was 2-2 overall although he was in net for team USA’s win over RUS as well despite it not officially counting in his W/L record due to the game going to a shootout. Quick is 9-4-1 lifetime against Colorado.

-- Gabriel Landeskog (4G-8A in last 9 games) & Nathan MacKinnon (5G-6A in last 8 games) have the second and third longest active point streaks in the NHL short of PHX’s Antoine Vermette (8G-5A in 10 games). Both are tied in third for the most points in the league since Jan. 1 (20 points).

-- Drew Doughty led team CAN with 6 points (4G-2A) in 6 games at the Olympics; he was selected to the tournament All-Star Team by the media.

-- Los Angeles ranks 29th in the league in goals per game (2.25), outpacing only Buffalo (1.84).