Avalanche Game 8 vs Carolina Hurricanes: Nordiques vs Whalers! Lines, Notes & How To Watch

Looking to extend their season-opening point streak to eight games, the Colorado Avalanche (5-0-2) will take on one of the top teams in the Eastern Conference, the Carolina Hurricanes (5-1-0). Puck drop is scheduled for 7:14 p.m. MT.

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Key Stories to Watch

• Both teams will wear vintage jerseys, with the Avalanche donning Nordiques sweaters for the first time and the Hurricanes wearing Hartford Whalers white.
• Brent Burns will be honored before puck drop for reaching 1,500 regular-season games. Burns played 246 games with the Hurricanes before signing with the Avs in July.
• Neither team has had a successful power play despite their early-season success. Colorado is 30th in the league at 11.5% — one spot ahead of the 31st-place Hurricanes (8.5%).
• The Avalanche are one of two teams without a regulation loss, and have a chance to extend that to eight games to start the season for just the third time in franchise history.
• Carolina has just one loss, and could join the New Jersey Devils as the only teams with six wins in their first seven games.
• Colorado’s Scott Wedgewood gets the nod once again, having played every game thus far.

Season Series

• Oct. 23 vs Carolina Hurricanes
• Jan. 3 at Carolina Hurricanes

Avalanche Injuries

• Mackenzie Blackwood (undisclosed, week-to-week)
• Logan O’Connor (hip, early November return)
• Samuel Girard (upper body, week-to-week)
• Joel Kiviranta (lower body, indefinitely)

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Projected Avalanche Lines (Subject to Change)

Artturi Lehkonen — Nathan MacKinnon — Martin Necas
Gabriel Landeskog — Brock Nelson — Valeri Nichushkin
Ross Colton — Jack Drury — Victor Olofsson
Parker Kelly — Zakhar Bardakov — Gavin Brindley

Devon Toews — Cale Makar
Josh Manson — Brent Burns
Ilya Solovyov — Sam Malinski

Scott Wedgewood
Trent Miner

Projected Starters (Subject to Change)

• Expected: Scott Wedgewood (COL)
• Expected: Frederik Andersen (CAR)

Upcoming Milestones

• Gabriel Landeskog — needs 2 goals for 250
• Artturi Lehkonen — needs 3 games for 600, needs 5 points for 300
• Jack Drury — needs 8 games for 200

How to Watch

• TV: Altitude TV
• Radio: 92.5 FM