Under 6.5 goals
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NHLSeason 2026
Sunday, 4 October 2026 · 03:09
Colorado Avalanche
St Louis Blues
Ball Arena · Denver, CO
Timestamped proof
Under 6.5 goals
Matchbook1.89Pinnacle1.851xBet1.70Archived odds
What the published prediction returned once the match was played.
Colorado enters this matchup with a clear structural advantage: a better 2025-26 season, more productive offense, stronger défense, and home ice at Ball Arena. St. Louis can nevertheless narrow the gap thanks to its offensive additions and a possible advantage from Hofer in goal.
Read the full analysisColorado finished 2025-26 with a record of 55-16-11, first in the Central, with 298 goals scored and 197 conceded. MacKinnon recorded 53 goals and 127 points, Makar 79 points, and Necas 100.
St. Louis finished at 37-33-12, fifth in the Central and out of the playoffs, with 2.80 goals per game, 24th in the NHL. The Blues added McTavish, McMichael, and Carlo.
However, they begin with Dallas on October 2 before playing in Colorado on October 3, creating a back-to-back, although the impact of this early-season workload remains uncertain. These references describe the previous season’s level, not the current competitive form.
No detailed recent history between Colorado and St. Louis is established in the selected materials. The comparison therefore relies on the 2025-26 records, the announced rosters, and the schedule context, without a direct measure of either team’s adaptation to this specific matchup.
Colorado scenario: its superior offensive and defensive core, home-ice advantage, and St. Louis’s potential fatigue after Dallas may favor constant offensive pressure. Limitations: Colorado is also opening its season, its actual cohesion has not been measured, and its starting goaltender remains unknown.
St. Louis scenario: McTavish and McMichael can improve the second line, while Hofer posted a 2.61 goals-against average and .910 save percentage in 2025-26, compared with 3.33 and .873 for Binnington. Limitations: rapid integration of the reinforcements, inferior record, special teams ranked 26th on the power play and 25th on the penalty kill the previous season, and the Dallas-Colorado back-to-back.
The exact local schedule must be reconfirmed despite the schedule provided being consistent with the NHL schedule page.
The game is a 2026-27 NHL regular-season matchup, played on regulation NHL ice: three 20-minute periods, five skaters and one goaltender per team under normal conditions, with overtime followed by a shootout if necessary. The opening rosters published on September 29 include, among others, MacKinnon, Makar, Necas, Nelson, Landeskog, Lehkonen, Kadri, Blackwood and Wedgewood for Colorado, as well as Binnington, Hofer, Robert Thomas, Buchnevich, Holloway, McTavish, McMichael, Carlo, Parayko and Fowler for St. Louis.
The lines, defensive pairings and starting goaltenders have not yet been announced.
Colorado AvalancheSt Louis Blues
| Rank | Team | GP | W | L | Diff | Pts |
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| 1 | Edmonton Oilers | 3 | 2 | 0 | +3 | 5 |
| 2 | Utah Mammoth | 2 | 2 | 0 | +9 | 4 |
| 3 | Colorado Avalanche | 2 | 2 | 0 | +9 | 4 |
| 4 | Minnesota Wild | 2 | 2 | 0 | +5 | 4 |
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