The St. Louis Blues are the only team that has defeated the Colorado Avalanche in this year’s Playoffs and the Blues are hoping to do the same again when they visit the Avalanche in Ball Center in Denver, CO, on May 25, 2022.
Match Details
- Colorado Avalanche vs St. Louis Blues
- NHL – Western Conference Playoffs, Second Round, Game 5
- Date – 25/5/2022
- Starting time – 8 PM ET
- Venue: Ball Center, Denver, CO
Colorado Avalanche Stats & Form
The Colorado Avalanche were the best team in the second part of the season and are now the leading candidate to win the Stanley Cup even though there is still a long road ahead of them.
Colorado has a 14-5-3 record in Central Division games and a 56-19-7 record overall. The Avalanche have scored 67 power-play goals, which leads the NHL.
Mikko Rantanen has 36 goals and 56 assists for the Avalanche. Valeri Nichushkin has six goals and two assists over the last 10 games.
Colorado is 8-2-0 in the last 10 games, averaging 3.8 goals, 6.1 assists, 4.1 penalties and 10.4 penalty minutes while giving up three goals per game.
Colorado Avalanche News
Ryan Murray and Andrew Cogliano will not play for Colorado tonight.
St. Louis Blues Stats & Form
The St. Louis Blues finished strong in the opening Playoff round against the Minnesota Wild winning the last three games and advancing to the second round.
Their situation looked promising after they managed to steal Game 2 in Colorado and hand the Avalanche their first loss in the Playoffs. Still, the Blues were not able to win at home and now are facing elimination when they visit Ball Arena on Wednesday evening.
St. Louis is 49-22-11 overall with a 16-5-3 record against the Central Division. The Blues have gone 42-7-4 in games they score three or more goals.
Robert Thomas has 20 goals and 56 assists for the Blues. Justin Faulk has one goal and six assists over the past 10 games.
The Blues are 5-4-1 in the last 10 games, averaging 3.7 goals, 6.2 assists, four penalties and eight penalty minutes while giving up three goals per game.
St. Louis Blues News
Torey Krug, Marco Scandella and Mackenzie MacEachern will not play for the Blues tonight.
Colorado Avalanche vs St. Louis Blues Head-to-Head Stats
The Colorado Avalanche have won 8 of the last 10 games against the St. Louis Blues.
Eight of the last ten games between these two rivals have ended with over 5.5 goals.
Colorado Avalanche vs St. Louis Blues Betting Odds
The Colorado Avalanche are favourites to defeat the St. Louis Blues with the odds at -149 for their win while the odds for the Blues’ win are at 308. The draw is set at 376.
The total goals margin is set at 6 with both -118 for over and 105 for under.
Betting Tip
The Colorado Avalanche had a very successful trip to St. Louis, winning Games 3 and 4 and are now on the brink of making the Western Conference Finals for the first time in 20 years. Interestingly enough, Colorado’s general manager Joe Sakic was the captain of that team that lost that series to Detroit back in 2002. A win at home here in Game 5 seems very likely as Denver is where the Avalanche only lost six times in regulation.
They’ve beaten St. Louis by three goals each of the last two games and that correlates with Jordan Binnington going out for the series. Before the injury, the Avalanche were averaging just 2 goals a game but against Ville Husso they are now up to 5 a game. This is a matchup nightmare and Wednesday night is when the Blues’ season will be put to bed.
