Toronto Maple Leafs at Colorado Avalanche: game preview
TorontoMaple Leafs2026-27: 2-2-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 32-36-14 · 78 pts · 28that
ColoradoAvalanche2026-27: 2-0-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 55-16-11 · 121 pts · 1stForty-three points apart last season
Toronto finished last season 28th in the league on 78 points. Colorado finished 1st on 121, and the 2025-26 season series went TOR 1-1-0.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 50
Across 49 completed games, Colorado lead the head-to-head 27-20-2.
Last 5 meetings
See all: Last 5 meetings →The table on each 2025-26 meeting night
League rank after that night's games; a longer bar is a higher place. On 12 Jan 2026, Toronto were 10th in the league and Colorado 1st. By 25 Jan 2026 it was 18th and 1st.
Colorado out-attempted Toronto 362 to 265
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Toronto Maple Leafs
Colorado Avalanche
Colorado have created the better chances, last 10 games
Shot quality both ways: expected goals weigh every unblocked attempt by its chance of scoring. Finishing above zero means more goals than the chances.
This season: 4 games for Toronto, 2 for Colorado. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Toronto, 10 for Colorado.
2025-26: 82 games for Toronto, 82 for Colorado.
Power play and penalty kill, season and series
This season's rates first, then 2025-26 and the last meetings between the two. Power-play chances are counted from the penalty log with coincidental minors cancelled; faceoffs are each club's wins over draws taken.
All bars share one scale · 0–100%SeasonLast meetings
Toronto
Small sampleColorado
Small sampleNathan MacKinnon has 10 points in the last 5 meetings
Each club's top three forwards and defencemen by points this season, with 2025-26 one tap away, then who has produced in the last meetings.
Nathan MacKinnon vs Toronto · game by game
See all: Nathan MacKinnon vs Toronto · game by game →Mackenzie Blackwood has started most of these meetings
Mackenzie Blackwood played 3 of the last 5 meetings with Toronto, with a .913 save percentage. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Toronto crease
TOR · 2026-27 Starter not named
Mackenzie Blackwood
See all: Mackenzie Blackwood →COL · 2-0-0 in 2026-27 Starter not named
Scoring rates point to about 6.5 goals
No total is posted yet: it arrives with the game-day prices. Until then, the scoring rates and the recent meetings set the range.
Goals in the last 5 meetings
Bar length is total goals, coloured by the winner.
Scoring rates
Toronto2.752.753.093.65
Colorado7.002.503.682.48Goals for and against per game. The estimate averages each team’s scoring with the other’s goals allowed, and leans on 2025-26 until a team has played 20 games.
9 on the injury lists
Toronto · injuries
Colorado · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Placed RW Nikita Grebenkin on injured reserve.
Moved C Max Domi from the non-roster list to long-term injured reserve.
Placed D Cade Webber on the injured non-roster list.
Placed LD Keaton Middleton, LD Wyatt Aamodt, RW/LW Fabian Lysell, C Vinnie Hinostroza, LW Adam Beckman and LW Tristen Nielsen on waivers.
Placed D Keaton Middleton, D Wyatt Aamodt, LW Fabian Lysell, C Vinnie Hinostroza, LW Adam Beckman and G Mads Sogaard Nielsen on waivers.
Reassigned Ds Domenick Fensore, Saige Weinstein and Christian Wolanin to Colorado (AHL).
Toronto · 2026 draft
See all: Toronto · 2026 draft →Colorado · 2026 draft
See all: Colorado · 2026 draft →Saturday 10 October · the full slate
See all: Saturday 10 October · the full slate →
PHIat
BOS3:30 PM ET
VANat
NJD4:00 PM ET
EDMat
SJS6:00 PM ET
MINat
FLA7:00 PM ET
UTAat
BUF7:00 PM ET
DETat
MTL7:00 PM ET
NSHat
OTT7:00 PM ET
DALat
PIT7:00 PM ET
CARat
CHI7:00 PM ET
CBJat
STL7:00 PM ETTORatCOLThis game7:30 PM ET
TBLat
NYI10:00 PM ET
ANAat
CGY10:00 PM ET
LAKat
VGKUpdated after every final