St. Louis Blues at Colorado Avalanche: game preview
St. LouisBlues2026-27: 1-2-0 · 2 pts · 2025-26: 37-33-12 · 86 pts · 22ndat
ColoradoAvalanche2026-27: 2-0-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 55-16-11 · 121 pts · 1stThirty-five points apart last season
St. Louis finished last season 22nd in the league on 86 points. Colorado finished 1st on 121, and the 2025-26 season series went COL 2-1-0.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 148
Across 147 completed games, Colorado lead the head-to-head 82-51-13.
Last 5 meetings
See all: Last 5 meetings →The table on each meeting night
League rank after that night's games; a longer bar is a higher place. On 31 Dec 2025, St. Louis were 29th in the league and Colorado 1st. By 3 Oct it was 20th and 2nd.
Colorado out-attempted St. Louis 353 to 237
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
St. Louis Blues
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: 3 games for St. Louis, 2 for Colorado. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for St. Louis, 10 for Colorado.
2025-26: 82 games for St. Louis, 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
St. Louis
Small sampleColorado
Small sampleNathan MacKinnon has 9 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 St. Louis · game by game
See all: Nathan MacKinnon vs St. Louis · game by game →Jordan Binnington has been the difference
Jordan Binnington faced 118 shots across 3 appearances against Colorado and conceded 16, a .864 save percentage against a season figure of .833. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Jordan Binnington
See all: Jordan Binnington →STL · 0-1-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 26 Dec
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Joel Hofer .955 (2 GP)
Full game logMackenzie Blackwood
See all: Mackenzie Blackwood →COL · 2-0-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 26 Dec
Scoring rates point to about 6.2 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
St. Louis2.333.332.823.15
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.
8 on the injury lists
St. Louis · injuries
Colorado · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →Placed LW Alexey Toropchenko on injured reserve.
Placed G Georgii Romanov and D Calle Rosen on waivers. Claimed RD Justin Barron off waivers.
Placed D Marc Andre Gaudet was placed on waivers.
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).
St. Louis · 2026 draft
See all: St. Louis · 2026 draft →Colorado · 2026 draft
See all: Colorado · 2026 draft →
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