Colorado Avalanche at Pittsburgh Penguins: game preview
ColoradoAvalanche2026-27: 2-0-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 55-16-11 · 121 pts · 1stat
PittsburghPenguins2026-27: 2-1-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 41-25-16 · 98 pts · 10thTwenty-three points apart last season
Colorado finished last season 1st in the league on 121 points. Pittsburgh finished 10th on 98.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 49
Across 48 completed games, Colorado lead the head-to-head 27-13-8.
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 16 Mar 2026, Colorado were 1st in the league and Pittsburgh 7th. By 24 Mar 2026 it was 1st and 10th.
Pittsburgh out-attempted Colorado 294 to 286
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Colorado Avalanche
Pittsburgh Penguins
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: 2 games for Colorado, 3 for Pittsburgh. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Colorado, 10 for Pittsburgh.
2025-26: 82 games for Colorado, 82 for Pittsburgh.
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
Colorado
Small samplePittsburgh
Small sampleNathan MacKinnon has 12 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 Pittsburgh · game by game
See all: Nathan MacKinnon vs Pittsburgh · game by game →Scott Wedgewood has started most of these meetings
Scott Wedgewood played 4 of the last 5 meetings with Pittsburgh, with a .918 save percentage. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Expected starter after their game on 10 Jan: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
Expected starter after their game on 9 Jan: a back-to-back depends on who plays that night.
Scott Wedgewood
See all: Scott Wedgewood →COL · 31-6-6 in 2025-26 Starter estimate from 9 Jan
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Mackenzie Blackwood .912 (2 GP)
Full game logArturs Silovs
See all: Arturs Silovs →PIT · 2-0-0 in 2026-27 Starter estimate from 9 Jan
Also on the roster, 2026-27: Sergei Murashov .912 (1 GP)
Full game logScoring rates point to about 6.7 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
Colorado7.002.503.682.48
Pittsburgh5.002.673.573.27Goals 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.
7 on the injury lists
Colorado · injuries
Pittsburgh · injuries
Latest moves
See all: Latest moves →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).
Activated C/RW Benjamin Kindel from injured reserve. Placed C/LW David Gustafsson on waivers.
Assigned F Rutger McGroarty to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (AHL).
Reinstated C Blake Lizotte from injured reserve.
Colorado · 2026 draft
See all: Colorado · 2026 draft →Pittsburgh · 2026 draft
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