AVALANCHE, CANADIENS LOOK TO EXTEND WINNING STREAKS
Colorado and Montreal aim to extend their winning streak to seven and five games, respectively, as the Second Round of the 2021 Stanley Cup Playoffs continues with two contests tonight.

* The Avalanche own a 6-0 record this postseason, which is tied for the franchise’s longest winning streak at any point in a playoff year – the Quebec Nordiques also had a six-game run in 1987. The Canadiens look to earn five or more consecutive wins within a postseason for just the third time over the last 30 years, following 11- and five-game streaks in 1993 and 2014, respectively.

* Colorado can become the 12th team in NHL history to earn victories in each of its first seven or more contests from the start of a postseason and first since Pittsburgh during the 2008 Stanley Cup Playoffs (7-0). Each of the eight teams with a postseason-opening winning streak of at least seven games during the NHL’s expansion era (since 1967-68) went on to reach the Stanley Cup Final that year – the three such runs before 1967-68 spanned into the Final, with the club claiming a championship in each instance.