Colorado Avalanche at Nashville Predators: game preview
ColoradoAvalanche2026-27: 2-0-0 · 4 pts · 2025-26: 55-16-11 · 121 pts · 1stat
NashvillePredators2026-27: 1-1-1 · 3 pts · 2025-26: 38-34-10 · 86 pts · 23rdThirty-five points apart last season
Colorado finished last season 1st in the league on 121 points. Nashville finished 23rd on 86, and the 2025-26 season series went COL 2-1-1.
Game-day prices arrive with the afternoon snapshot, about 4:30 PM ET on the day of the game.
Meeting number 118
Across 117 completed games, Nashville lead the head-to-head 61-47-9.
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 22 Nov 2025, Colorado were 1st in the league and Nashville 32nd. By 16 Jan 2026 it was 1st and 22nd.
Colorado out-attempted Nashville 272 to 240
Every attempt from the last meetings, both teams shooting right.
Colorado Avalanche
Nashville Predators
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 Nashville. Small sample: early-season xG moves a lot from night to night.
Last 10 games: 10 games for Colorado, 10 for Nashville.
2025-26: 82 games for Colorado, 82 for Nashville.
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 sampleNashville
Small sampleSkaters to watch
Each club's top three forwards and defencemen by points this season, with 2025-26 one tap away.
Who has stopped this matchup
Save percentage in the last meetings by goalie. Starters are confirmed on game day.
Colorado crease
COL · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 27 Feb
No appearances against Nashville in the last meetings.
Nashville crease
NSH · 2026-27 Starter estimate from 27 Feb
No appearances against Colorado in the last meetings.
Scoring rates point to about 6.3 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
Nashville2.333.003.013.28Goals 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.
5 on the injury lists
Colorado · injuries
Nashville · 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).
Recalled G Matt Murray from Milwaukee (AHL). Placed G Justus Annunen on injured reserve.
Recalled LW Yegor Pinchuk from Milwaukee (AHL). Assigned G Matt Murray to Milwaukee.
Recalled G Matthew Murray from Milwaukee (AHL).
Colorado · 2026 draft
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