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No. 6 — J.T. Miller (74)
No. 8 — Elias Pettersson (73)
No. 10 — Mikko Rantanen (70)" } }, { "type": "header", "data": { "text": "Top defensemen in scoring", "level": 3 } }, { "type": "paragraph", "data": { "text": "No. 1 — Quinn Hughes (68)
No. 2 — Cale Makar (60)" } }, { "type": "header", "data": { "text": "Top goaltenders in wins", "level": 3 } }, { "type": "paragraph", "data": { "text": "No. 1 — Thatcher Demko (30)
No. 2 — Alexandar Georgiev (29)" } }, { "type": "paragraph", "data": { "text": "\"It's the maturity. So in my opinion, they've always been a highly dangerous offensive team with great ability to score and create off the rush, in zone, you know, all of the above. They have superstar players, they're a deep team up front — you mix in guys on the back end like (Filip) Hronek, Hughes — their D helps them produce a lot offensive five-man attack. That's the way you have to I think in this day and age in the NHL,\" head coach Jared Bednar said. \"But their maturity discipline commitment to defend has been extremely good.\"" } }, { "type": "paragraph", "data": { "text": "The Avalanche beat the Canucks 5-2 on Nov. 22 at Ball Arena and won their last game against the Arizona Coyotes. Vancouver lost to the Minnesota Wild, despite scoring seven goals. " } }, { "type": "paragraph", "data": { "text": "MacKinnon could extend his home point scoring streak if he gets on the scoresheet tonight to 27 games. " } }, { "type": "header", "data": { "text": "Recent Colorado Avalanche articles", "level": 2 } }, { "type": "paragraph", "data": { "text": "'Just learning from them': Rick Tocchet is impressed with the Colorado Avalanche from the top down" } }, { "type": "paragraph", "data": { "text": "'I thought we did a ton to win': Why Avalanche victory over Coyotes was so important " } }, { "type": "paragraph", "data": { "text": "Nathan MacKinnon suffered broken nose against Lightning" } } ] }

How Avalanche match up against Canucks