The Colorado Avalanche and Seattle Kraken meet Monday in game 4 of the NHL West First Round Playoffs at the Climate Pledge Arena. Let’s preview this game and give out a pick and prediction.
The Colorado Avalanche are averaging 3.33 goals per game and are scoring on 0 percent of their power play opportunities. Mikko Rantanen leads Colorado with 3 goals, Artturi Lehkonen has 3 assists and Nathan MacKinnon has 20 shots on goal. Defensively, the Colorado Avalanche are allowing 3 goals per game and are killing 90.9 percent of their opponent’s power plays. Alexandar Georgiev has allowed 9 goals on 88 shots faced.
The Seattle Kraken are averaging 3 goals per game and are scoring on 9.1 percent of their power play opportunities. Jaden Schwartz leads Seattle with 2 goals, Justin Schultz has 3 assists, and Jordan Eberle has 7 shots on goal. Defensively, the Seattle Kraken are allowing 3.33 goals per game and are killing 100 percent of their opponent’s power plays. Philipp Grubauer has given up 9 goals on 109 shots faced.
The Avalanche are 39-13 in their last 52 road games and 121-56 in their last 177 overall. The Kraken are 5-2 in their last 7 vs. Central and 1-4 in their last 5 overall. The over is 8-3-1 in Avalanche last 12 overall. The under is 5-1 in Kraken last 6 overall. The road team is 5-1 in the last 6 meetings. The underdog is 5-2 in the last 7 meetings.
The Colorado Avalanche are going to get the benefit of the doubt here, and the road team has won 5 of the last 6 meetings between these clubs. However, the Kraken are at home where they have a solid crowd, and they’ve had offensive success in this series while defending the power play well. The Kraken have shown enough through 3 games to think they can extend this thing to where it gets interesting. I’ll take a shot with the plus money.