Overview
- Anaheim carries a seven-game winning streak and the league’s top scoring rate into Tuesday’s visit to Colorado, with 20-year-old Leo Carlsson on a 10-game point run and Joel Quenneville’s up-tempo system powering an 11-3-1 start.
- Nathan MacKinnon leads the NHL with 29 points after a nine-point weekend, as Central-leading Colorado (25 points, five wins in six) hosts the Ducks; Cale Makar tops defensemen with 22 points and Jared Bednar notched his 400th win.
- Washington has dropped six of seven since a 6-2-0 start and will be without Pierre‑Luc Dubois for roughly three to four months following abdominal and adductor surgery, as metrics show high chance creation but poor finishing and struggling special teams.
- Toronto gave up 10 goals in weekend losses to Boston and Carolina, with Anthony Stolarz pulled and described by coach Craig Berube as overworked, while Dennis Hildeby stopped 42 shots in relief as defensive structure and puck management came under fire.
- Carolina seeks a fifth straight win after a 5-4 comeback in Toronto, reworking blue-line pairs following rookie Charles Alexis Legault’s cut hand that required hospital treatment, even as Seth Jarvis and Sebastian Aho extend point streaks.