A narrow victory is still a victory. As long as the result is two points, the Colorado Avalanche would happily accept another tight contest when they visit the Arizona Coyotes on Tuesday in Tempe, Arizona.

Colorado is on a four-game winning streak, with its last three wins coming in either overtime or a shootout. The Avalanche are 6-1-0 in their last seven games, collecting five one-goal wins and outscoring opponents by a modest 17-12 margin.

“We’ve been fighting, grinding out wins, low-scoring games,” forward Evan Rodrigues said. “Even when we’re down, guys believe we can come back. We’ve just got to stick with it.”

Rodrigues recorded the assist on Samuel Girard’s game-winning goal in the Avalanche’s last game, a 3-2 overtime win over the Nashville Predators on Friday.

Dynamic offense was a cornerstone of Colorado’s run to the Stanley Cup last summer. This season, however, long-term injuries to Nathan McKinnon and Gabriel Landeskog have sapped the Avalanche of some of their scoring punch.

Valeri Nichushkin also missed 17 games due an ankle injury and is questionable for Tuesday’s lineup. Nichushkin made an early exit against the Predators due to an unspecified lower-body injury.

With goals at a premium, the Avalanche have instead succeeded due to a renewed focus on defense. An improved penalty kill has helped atone for a cold power play. In Colorado’s last nine games, the penalty-kill unit is 16-for-19, while the team has only scored twice in 24 power-play chances.

Alexandar Georgiev has been a difference-maker in net for Colorado. The goaltender has been strong all season, and Georgiev has been in particularly good form with a 4-0-0 record and .964 save percentage in his last four outings.

Georgiev figures to start Tuesday unless the Avalanche want backup Pavel Francouz — who last played on Dec. 13 — to see some action.

The Coyotes also needed to go beyond regulation time in their last game, as Arizona collected a 2-1 shootout victory over the Los Angeles Kings on Friday. The win ended the Coyotes’ three-game (0-2-1) winless streak and sent the team into the NHL’s three-day holiday break on a positive note after a difficult first 32 games.

Due to a pair of lengthy road trips while Mullett Arena was being refigured for NHL play, the Coyotes have played more road games (22) than any other team in the league. Head coach Andre Tourigny felt the situation was harder mentally than physically on his players, but he believes the Coyotes emerged in good position.

“We’re in it every night, so with the schedule we had we needed to be resilient,” Tourigny said. “But now we cannot be satisfied. We need to make the next step and just find another gear.”

Karel Vejmelka stopped 26 of 27 Los Angeles shots on Friday, and he will likely also get the start against Colorado.

Matias Macelli is questionable for Tuesday after leaving Arizona’s last game with a lower-body injury.

Nick Schmaltz has seven points (two goals, five assists) over the course of his five-game points streak.

The Coyotes’ power play has also been struggling and will face a tough test in the Avalanche’s red-hot penalty-kill unit. Arizona is just 5-for-56 on the power play over its last 17 games.

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The San Jose Sharks and Vancouver Canucks can’t afford to come out of the gate slowly again.

Both teams will be looking to emerge from the Christmas break on a positive note when they meet on Tuesday night in Vancouver.

The Sharks lost their first five games in regulation to start this season and were 3-9-3 before finally stringing together consecutive wins.

The Canucks began the season 0-5-2 and were 4-9-3 by mid-November.

Vancouver has shown more improvement than San Jose as the season progressed, however, posting a 11-6-0 mark over the past six weeks.

Two of those wins came at San Jose, both in overtime.

“It’s been an interesting year for us, to say the least,” Canucks forward J.T. Miller said. “We don’t have any quit in us, which is a real positive thing, even though we have games where we have breakdowns and letdowns.”

The final games before the weekend break were emblematic of Vancouver’s recent resolve.

The Canucks rallied from a two-goal, third-period deficit to defeat the visiting Seattle Kraken 6-5 in a shootout on Thursday before getting on a plane to face the rested Edmonton Oilers the following night.

Vancouver fell behind 2-0 in the first period at Edmonton before rallying for a 5-2 win.

It was the first time in team history the Canucks erased deficits of two or more goals to win on consecutive nights.

“That was one of our better games,” Miller said of the Oilers contest. “Just for the fact of getting in at 3 a.m. and having a quick turnaround against a team that’s ready and, obviously, very dangerous.”

Canucks coach Bruce Boudreau agreed that it was one of the better games Vancouver has played in a long stretch.

“When you do that, and you do it as a group of 20, and not of eight or 10 or 14, then you’re a hard team to beat,” he said.

The Sharks were just 5-9-3 over the six weeks, but they also went into the break on a positive note, ending a six-game winning streak by the Minnesota Wild with a 5-2 victory on Thursday.

“There was just a lot to like about our game,” San Jose coach David Quinn said. “We’ve talked throughout the first 34 games that we’ve had games like this, we’ve had stretches like this. It’s the consistency that we’ve got to try to bottle.”

One player who has remained consistent for the Sharks is defenseman Erik Karlsson, who had a goal and three assists against the Wild for his third four-point game of the season, tied for second in the NHL behind Connor McDavid of the Oilers (seven).

Karlsson will bring a nine-game point streak into the matchup with the Canucks (two goals, 12 assists).

He also leads NHL defensemen with 13 goals and 46 points this season.

“It’s really amazing to watch him when he’s on his game,” Quinn said. “He’s special. It’s not a mystery why he’s won two Norris Trophies, and I can see more Norris Trophies coming his way.”

Timo Meier also comes in hot after scoring a goal in each of the past four games for San Jose.

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History repeats itself. That lesson is in black and white numbers for the Edmonton Oilers as they prepare to visit the Calgary Flames on Tuesday.

The Oilers return from the holiday break with an 18-15-2 record, the exact same mark they sported through 35 games last season. Edmonton is in a similar spot, sitting outside a playoff position.

The good news for the Oilers is that they can remind themselves how last season they posted a 10-3-1 mark in their next 14 games, finished second in the Pacific Division and reached the conference final in the Stanley Cup playoffs.

“Last year we got off to a racing start, then fell off a cliff halfway through, and that’s kind of how we ended up here,” Edmonton captain Connor McDavid said. “And I would say this time around we’ve just kind of gone up and down and it’s been a bit of a rollercoaster.”

The Oilers have one win in their last five games (1-2-2) and return to action following a disappointing 5-2 home loss to the Vancouver Canucks on Friday. Edmonton surrendered five unanswered goals while blowing a 2-0 lead.

Although the Oilers are struggling to find their form, McDavid is not one of their problems. He leads the league in goals (30) and points (66).

Facing the Flames should also give him some extra juice, too. McDavid has amassed 28 goals and 51 points in 36 regular-season games against Calgary.

“It doesn’t matter who we play. It’s a big game no matter who we’re playing,” McDavid said. “Obviously Calgary, we know the history there, so it’s a big game for us. That’s the bottom line.”

The Flames are back on home ice after finishing a four-game road trip with a 3-2 overtime win over the Anaheim Ducks on Friday. Calgary posted a 3-0-1 mark during clashes in California, and moved one point ahead of the Oilers and into a wild-card position — which was the goal prior to the road swing.

“Huge,” said defenseman Rasmus Andersson, who scored the game-winning goal in Anaheim. “We talked about it. Have a good road trip, which we did. To come out with three out of four and seven of eight points, it’s a good trip. Now we build and we keep going.”

Like the Oilers in their last game, the Flames wasted a lead. In fact, the Flames twice saw a one-goal edge disappear. However, they can take solace in bouncing back and earning a victory.

“We stuck with it throughout the games, whether we had good bounces or bad bounces,” forward Brett Ritchie said. “I think that’s what was missing early on in the year, that ability to stick with it. You’re never out of it until it’s over.”

The Anaheim game ended a stretch for the Flames in which they played nine games in 15 days, three of them in the Eastern time zone, two in the Mountain time zone and four on the West Coast. Detractors could say his team needed overtime to beat the cellar-dwelling Ducks, but Flames coach Darryl Sutter believed his squad gritted out a victory.

“This has been a grind for our team,” Sutter said. “They need a break and (Friday) was just about digging down there a little bit, that’s pretty clear.”

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The Toronto Maple Leafs will try to build upon their pre-holiday roll when they visit the St. Louis Blues on Tuesday.

The Leafs have gone 11-2-1 since Nov. 23. They beat the Tampa Bay Lightning 4-1 and the Philadelphia Flyers 4-3 in their final two games before the Christmas break.

“A little too exciting at the end, but a good way to head into the break,” Leafs winger William Nylander said after the Flyers game.

Forward Mitch Marner was happy the team left off on a high note, too.

“You want to go into Christmas with a win under your belt,” Marner said.

The Maple Leafs have persevered through injuries. Defensemen Morgan Rielly, Rasmus Sandin and Jake Muzzin are all on the shelf.

If the Leafs continue alternating starters in goal, Matt Murray will get the call against the Blues. Ilya Samsonov had a tough outing in the victory over Philadelphia and also struggled during a 5-2 loss to the Washington Capitals on Dec. 17.

“The last couple of games, I let in late goals, maybe a Christmas gift from me,” Samsonov said. “But it’s OK. We got the two points (Thursday). This is more important for us. And we’ll get some smiles tomorrow with a couple of days off. We’ll enjoy that.

“Sometimes we have bad days. It’s just life. We’ll be back. I’ll use the break to work (on) my mental side. Maybe do some fishing. Then come back here with new energy, new power.”

The Blues finished their pre-Christmas schedule with a 3-1-1 road trip, winning games at Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver before losing at Seattle and suffering a 5-4 shootout loss to the Golden Knights in Las Vegas.

“We’ve got to keep climbing,” Blues captain Ryan O’Reilly said after the loss to the Golden Knights. “It’s going to be tight and every point matters. That’s frustrating to let this one slip. Not what we want.”

The Blues are still struggling to re-establish the aggressive forechecking pressure that helped them win the Stanley Cup in 2019. They are 11-6-0 against teams currently outside the potential postseason bracket but just 5-10-2 against teams currently in playoff position.

As a result, they are playing catch-up in the Western Conference postseason chase. The Blues come out of the break five points behind the Flames for the final wild-card slot.

“They’ll be an odd team or two that are inconsistent going in,” St. Louis defenseman Justin Faulk told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “I would tend to imagine that those teams don’t last very long in the playoffs. So you’ve got to know how your team’s supposed to play. What your identity is, and you’ve got to use the year to build it. And hope you don’t take too long to find it.”

Winger Jordan Kyrou missed the last two games of the Blues’ road trip with an upper-body injury and is questionable for Tuesday’s game. Kyrou, who leads the Blues with 32 points (16 goals, 16 assists) in 31 games, had six goals and three assists during the first three games of the trip.

–Field Level Media

The Dallas Stars have certainly had their way with the Nashville Predators this season.

The Stars are aiming for a third consecutive victory over the Predators while also looking to extend their season-high road point streak to five games in the matchup on Tuesday night.

Dallas went into the NHL’s Christmas break with 46 points, leading the Central Division. The Stars are in a 6-2-1 stretch after overcoming a 2-0 hole during Friday’s 4-2 home victory over Montreal.

Roope Hintz scored twice to raise his goal total to 16. Jason Robertson, who has just one goal in his last 10 contests, added two assists to reach the 50-point mark in 35 games, and rookie Wyatt Johnston posted his 10th goal of the season for Dallas, which has five players with at least 10 goals and four posting 30 or more points.

“The guys who are supposed to score have scored, and we’ve gotten some depth scoring,” Stars coach Peter DeBoer said. “We’ve gotten contributions from a lot of people.”

Six players have at least one goal for the Stars as they’ve outscored Nashville 9-2 to win both the previous meetings. Three of Mason Marchment’s nine goals have come versus Nashville this season, while Hintz recorded two goals with two assists. Robertson posted one of his 24 goals, plus three assists, and Johnston scored once.

Dallas’ Jake Oettinger has a 2.14 goals-against average in his last six starts, and has stopped 60 of 62 shots in the two games versus Nashville. Backup Scott Wedgewood owns a 3.03 GAA in 13 games this season, but in his most recent appearance, he gave up five goals in 38 shots during a 5-4 overtime loss to Carolina in Raleigh, N.C., on Dec. 17.

The Stars are amid a 3-0-1 stretch on the road.

The Predators are sixth in the Central with 33 points, but they’re 2-0-1 in their last three games following an 0-4-2 slide.

Despite blowing a 2-0 lead during Friday’s 3-2 overtime loss to visiting Colorado to fall to 1-2-1 in its last four home contests, Nashville is pleased with the progress it’s made of late.

“We’re playing much better,” said forward Matt Duchene, who’s amid a four-game goal streak. “We’re still right there. So, we’ve got to string some together. We know that, and we’re looking for a big new year here.”

Duchene, who has 10 goals on the season and is also amid a five-game point streak, was blanked in the previous two contests with Dallas this season, and has an assist for his only point in his last four games against the Stars.

Nashville’s Juuse Saros has a 2.10 GAA during his last six starts and has made at least 30 saves in four of those contests. He allowed four goals in each of the two meetings with the Stars this season.

Predators backup Kevin Lankinen, who last started on Dec. 13, has stopped 79 of the 85 shots he’s faced in his last two games.

–Field Level Media

The Winnipeg Jets hope to come out of the holiday break with a victory over the visiting Minnesota Wild on Tuesday night after slumping into the hiatus.

Winnipeg lost back-to-back games before the three-day breather, falling to the Boston Bruins and Washington Capitals.

The 4-1 loss to the Capitals was a historic one, as Washington’s Alex Ovechkin passed Gordie Howe and moved into second all-time on the NHL’s all-time goals list, but it was a frustrating night for the Jets, who have lost three of their last four.

“Slow start,” Winnipeg coach Rick Bowness said. “Took some penalties in the second period. … We had some good looks. The kid in the net for (Washington) made a lot of big saves at the right time, so that’s tough when you give up that first goal.

“But listen, there’s no quit in these guys. They found a way to dig down deep in the third period.”

Winnipeg is hoping the holiday break cured an illness that was circulating through the team and had been hampering starting goalie Connor Hellebuyck.

Hellebuyck has been the Jets’ MVP this season. In 25 starts, Hellebuyck has a 16-8-1 record, a .928 save percentage (second in the NHL), 761 saves (second) and a 2.36 goals-against average (fifth).

Because of the NHL collective bargaining agreement rules, Minnesota will have to travel to Winnipeg on the day of the game.

The Wild had won six in a row before losing 5-2 to the San Jose Sharks on Thursday.

In that matchup, the Wild were on the receiving end of a dominant performance by Sharks defenseman Erik Karlsson, who had a goal and three assists.

“(San Jose) played hard,” Minnesota coach Dean Evason said. “They played with a lot of energy. They kept coming at us. We didn’t have the sustained offensive-zone push that we’ve had as of late. They put a lot of pressure on us. Give them a lot of credit.”

The Wild will be without forward Mason Shaw, who was ejected for kneeing Evgeny Svechnikov in the loss to the Sharks. Shaw was suspended two games for the hit.

“That’s my last intent is to take someone’s knee out,” Shaw said. “I feel bad because that put our team in a very bad spot, and ultimately it was a difference in the game, so I’m disappointed in myself.”

While Winnipeg will turn to Hellebuyck in goal, the Wild likely will turn to Marc-Andre Fleury. The veteran goalie has a 12-7-1 record, a .901 save percentage and a 2.85 GAA and a .901 save percentage (his worst figure since 2005-06) in 21 starts this season.

Kirill Karprizov leads Minnesota skaters with 43 points (19 goals, 24 assists) in 33 games. Mats Zuccarello has 37 points (15 goals, 22 assists), while no other Wild player has crossed the 30-point mark.

Josh Morrisey leads the Jets from the blue line with 39 points (six goals, 33 assists), while Kyle Conor (38 points) and Pierre-Luc Dubois (37) are close behind and have been the focal points of the forward group.

–Field Level Media

The surging Pittsburgh Penguins are among the Eastern Conference teams that took advantage of the New York Islanders’ inconsistency between Thanksgiving and Christmas.

But the Penguins will take the ice Tuesday night knowing they could have done more — recently and far earlier in the season — to create even more distance between them and the Islanders in the playoff race.

The Penguins and host Islanders, jockeying for position in the ever-competitive Metropolitan Division and Eastern Conference, return from the Christmas break Tuesday at Elmont, N.Y., in the first game of the season between the longtime rivals.

The Penguins haven’t played since Thursday, when they suffered an overtime loss by falling to the visiting Carolina Hurricanes 4-3. The host Islanders headed into the break with a much-needed win Friday, when they cruised past the Florida Panthers 5-1.

The overtime loss gave Pittsburgh a point for the 11th time in 13 games since Thanksgiving (9-2-2). The Penguins headed into Thanksgiving in fifth place in the Metropolitan and in ninth place in the East. But they begin play Tuesday in third place in the division and three points clear of the ninth-place Islanders, on whom they have two games in hand.

But the Penguins have also left potentially valuable points behind. The goal by Hurricanes defenseman Jaccob Slavin 23 seconds into overtime dropped Pittsburgh to 1-4 in games decided after regulation.

The Penguins have 18 regulation or overtime wins, the fewest of any Eastern Conference team currently occupying a playoff spot, and one fewer than the Islanders.

“There’s a fine line between winning and losing,” Penguins head coach Mike Sullivan said Thursday night. “I think we can be better in overtime. That’s an important element.”

New York, which was in second place in the Metropolitan on Thanksgiving, went 6-8-2 in between holidays.

The Islanders have endured three losing streaks since last winning consecutive games from Nov. 21-26. They capped a four-game streak by beating the Edmonton Oilers on Thanksgiving Eve before knocking off the Columbus Blue Jackets and Philadelphia Flyers on back-to-back nights.

Each of the Islanders’ last five wins dating to their 5-2 triumph over the Flyers has been by at least two goals. But New York has also suffered five multi-goal losses in that span, including losses to the Flyers, Nashville Predators and St. Louis Blues, all of whom are far behind in the playoff race in their respective conferences.

“I think we’ve done a lot of good things,” Islanders defenseman Noah Dobson told Newsday. “We’ve played some good hockey. The main thing is just bringing that on a consistent basis.”

The Christmas break was a well-timed one for the Islanders.

The team placed right winger Kyle Palmieri (upper body) and backup goalie Semyon Varlamov (lower body) on injured reserve Friday. The Isles played without center Casey Cizikas (upper body) before right winger Simon Holmstrom (lower body) and center Brock Nelson (upper body) were hurt against the Panthers.

Defenseman Adam Pelech (possible head injury) and right winger Cal Clutterbuck (upper body) were already on injured reserve for New York.

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Before the Washington Capitals headed into the Christmas break, Alex Ovechkin made history when he surpassed Gordie Howe for second on the NHL’s all-time goals list.

Ovechkin has a ways to go to catch all-time leader Wayne Gretzky, and the Capitals can now resume their focus on fueling their recent surge when they visit the red-hot New York Rangers on Tuesday night.

In a 4-1 win over the Winnipeg Jets on Friday, Ovechkin matched Howe with his 801st career goal in the final minutes of the first period. He then surpassed Howe by scoring his 802nd career goal into an empty net with one minute remaining after getting a pass from Evgeny Kuznetsov. Gretzky racked up 894 goals.

“You never thought it’s going to happen when you came into the league, (that) you’re going to beat any Gordie Howe record or Wayne Gretzky record or any record,” Ovechkin said. “You felt like, ‘OK, maybe you’re going to play in the NHL, you’re going to be good and you’re going to try to do your best,’ but the whole situation happening right now, it’s a miracle. You know, it’s pretty special.”

Ovechkin’s season total is up to 22, eight behind NHL leader Connor McDavid. Nine of those goals are since a 5-2 loss at Calgary on Dec. 3, and the Capitals are 9-1-0 since. Ovechkin did not score in the first three games of their current four-game winning streak after reaching 800 goals with a hat trick Dec. 13 in Chicago.

“It was special. It’s unbelievable,” Washington’s Dylan Strome said. “After the hat trick to 800, it took a little while to get to 801 and 802, obviously. It was special. When we saw the puck go in, it was relief, I’m sure, from everyone.”

Ovechkin is the first player other than Gretzky or Howe to occupy a top-two spot on that list since Dec. 21, 1991 — the day Gretzky scored his 732nd career goal to overtake Marcel Dionne (731) for second place in NHL history.

Ovechkin has 42 goals in 68 regular-season games against the Rangers, who, like the Capitals are surging since Dec. 3.

Since falling to 11-10-5 with an ugly 5-2 home loss to the Chicago Blackhawks, the Rangers are 8-1-0 in their past nine games with wins over the Vegas Golden Knights, Colorado Avalanche, Toronto Maple Leafs and New Jersey Devils.

During their surge, the Rangers have scored at least five goals on five occasions, including Thursday’s 5-3 win over the New York Islanders, which also gave them a fourth straight home victory.

The Rangers erased a trio of one-goal deficits on goals by Artemi Panarin, Julien Gauthier and Barclay Goodrow. The latter’s started a three-goal third period, and Kaapo Kakko broke the 3-3 tie with 2:47 remaining after committing an offensive zone turnover that had resulted in an Islanders’ goal.

“Ten games ago, the season wasn’t looking great,” Goodrow said after Kakko scored off a centering pass by defenseman K’Andre Miller.

“You win eight of nine and we’ve put ourselves in a good position. We’re right in the mix. A 10-game stretch can do a lot. We know how quickly things can go the other way. Obviously, it’s a big confidence boost going on this run. I think we’re playing good hockey; we just want to keep that up,” Goodrow said.

–Field Level Media

Teams at opposite ends of the NHL’s Atlantic Division standings will meet Tuesday night when the Boston Bruins visit the Ottawa Senators.

The Bruins are at the top of the Atlantic with 56 points, and they own an NHL-best plus-56 goal differential (130-74). Boston has won four in a row and is 7-1-2 in its last 10 games.

Ottawa is at the bottom of the eight-team division with 31 points and enters Tuesday’s matchup having lost its last three games. The Senators are 6-3-2 in their last 11 outings.

Ottawa last played Thursday, losing 3-2 in overtime at home to the Washington Capitals. The Senators were scheduled to skate against Detroit on Friday, also on home ice, but that game was postponed because of severe weather in Ontario and rescheduled for Feb. 27.

The Capitals’ Marcus Johansson scored the game-winning goal 2:05 into overtime on Friday. He used his speed to skate past Ottawa’s Drake Batherson and beat goaltender Cam Talbot with a shot from the inner edge of the right faceoff circle. Talbot stopped 37 shots.

“I just don’t like the way it (ended),” Senators coach D.J. Smith said. “You’ve got to check harder in overtime; you can’t give a breakaway. Talbot did everything to hold us in there.”

The Senators finished the game with 10 forwards and five defensemen after losing left wing Tyler Motte and center Rourke Chartier to upper-body injuries in the first period. Ottawa also lost defenseman Jake Sanderson after he was hit by a puck early in the third. All three players are listed as day to day.

“It’s tough to beat those guys with a full bench, and our guys battled back with three quarters of one, so it’s a gutsy point,” Talbot said. “Obviously when you leave a point on the table, it doesn’t feel great.”

“That was hard-fought,” Ottawa captain Brady Tkachuk added. “Dealt with a lot of adversity and thought we handled it well, but we wish we could have gotten that second point. It’s just how it is and you’ve got to move on from it, but yeah, it’s a gutsy effort by a lot of guys with all those injuries.”

Boston stretched its winning streak to four games by picking up a 4-3 road win against New Jersey on Friday. The Bruins trailed 1-0 after one period, but scored four goals in the second — including three in the period’s first 10 minutes.

David Pastrnak scored twice for Boston, which received 37 saves from Linus Ullmark, who has a league-best 19 wins. Ullmark has a 1.94 goals-against average and a .936 save percentage in 23 games.

“He’s been outstanding,” Pastrnak said. “Obviously, he’s standing on his head, making some big saves. We’re all very happy for him.”

Tkachuk leads Ottawa with 37 points (13 goals). He has four goals and eight assists in his last 11 games. Alex DeBrincat is next with 32 points (10 goals).

Pastrnak is Boston’s leader in goals (24) and assists (23). Taylor Hall has five goals and six assists in his last 10 games.

“Just playing and having a lot of fun, and the puck is going in,” Pastrnak said. “I’ve been shooting a lot. I think that’s big. So, just happy that it’s going in.”

This is the second of four meetings between the teams during the regular season. Ottawa won the first matchup, 7-5 on Oct. 18.

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The NHL postponed Tuesday’s game between the host Columbus Blue Jackets and Buffalo Sabres due to the travel ban in the aftermath of a blizzard that socked the Buffalo region.

The Sabres were scheduled to travel to Columbus on Tuesday morning.

However, the Buffalo airport remains closed after the winter storm that dumped roughly 50 inches of snow beginning Friday. The airport is expected to be shut down at least through Wednesday morning.

The NHL did not announce a makeup date.

The Sabres’ home game against Tampa Bay on Friday was also postponed due to the impending storm. Buffalo, owner of a four-game winning streak, hasn’t played since Dec. 19.

–Field Level Media