NHL Live Full Game Reactions 1st Round PlayOffs Game 1 Seattle Kraken @ Colorado Avalanche

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Seattle has reason for confidence, reaching the playoffs and reaching 100 points in just its second year of existence, and having won the season series against the Avalanche, 2-0-1.

Kraken netminder Philipp Grubauer will be tasked with shutting down his former teammates. Grubauer played three seasons in Colorado before signing with expansion Seattle ahead of the 2021-22 season. Martin Jones is also ready to see time in between the pipes.

Either goalie will have to contend with the duo of Nathan MacKinnon and Mikko Rantanen, each of whom had a career year. MacKinnon finished with a team-high 111 points despite missing 11 games, and Rantanen’s 55 goals set an Avalanche single-season record.

The Colorado Avalanche took a different approach to the end of the regular season than they did last year, and hope they find similar postseason results.

Last spring Colorado went 4-5-1 down the stretch but it didn’t matter because the Avs had already clinched the top seed in the Western Conference … and they went on to win the title. This year the Avalanche surged in the final weeks, going 10-1-1 in their final 12 games to capture the Central Division by a point over Dallas.

Their efforts snagged the No. 2 conference seed, which rewards them with home-ice advantage through at least the first two rounds of the playoffs. The Avalanche begin their defense of the Stanley Cup on Tuesday night in Denver against the upstart Seattle Kraken.

Colorado struggled with injuries all season, but the Avalanche are as healthy as they’re going to be for the playoffs. Team captain Gabriel Landeskog announced last week he will miss the postseason with a knee injury that kept him out all year.

The good news is last year’s Conn Smythe Trophy winner Cale Makar is back after missing the last seven games with a lower-body injury and Pavel Francouz is set to backup Alexandar Georgiev in net.

Seattle forward Andre Burakovsky, who helped Colorado win the Cup last year, will not be available for the playoffs. He suffered an undisclosed injury on Feb. 7 and hasn’t played since, although he was projected to be back in mid-March.

Kraken projected lineup

Forwards
Jared McCann – Matty Beniers – Jordan Eberle
Jaden Schwartz – Alex Wennberg – Morgan Geekie
Eeli Tolvanen – Yanni Gourde – Oliver Bjorkstrand
Brandon Tanev – Ryan Donato – Daniel Sprong

Defencemen
Vince Dunn – Adam Larsson
Jamie Oleksiak – Will Borgen
Carson Soucy – Justin Schultz

Goalies
Philipp Grubauer
Martin Jones

Scratched: Cale Fleury, Jaycob Megna, Jesper Froden, Tye Kartye
Injured: Andre Burakovsky (lower body), Joonas Donskoi (upper body), John Hayden (lower body)

Avalanche projected lineup

Forwards
Evan Rodrigues – Nathan MacKinnon – Mikko Rantanen
Artturi Lehkonen – J.T. Compher – Valeri Nichushkin
Matt Nieto – Lars Eller – Denis Malgin
Alex Newhook – Andrew Cogliano – Logan O’Connor

Defencemen
Devon Toews – Cale Makar
Samuel Girard – Josh Manson
Bowen Byram – Jack Johnson

Goalies
Alexandar Georgiev
Pavel Francouz

Scratched: Kurtis MacDermid, Erik Johnson, Brad Hunt, Darren Helm, Ben Meyers
Injured: Gabriel Landeskog (knee)

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