The Colorado Avalanche and the Columbus Blue Jackets meet in NHL action from the Nokia Arena on Saturday afternoon.

The Colorado Avalanche will look to sweep the overseas back-to-back after a 6-3 win over the Blue Jackets on Friday. Nathan MacKinnon leads the Avs with 16 points including a team-high 13 assists while Mikko Rantanen has 15 points with a team-high 7 goals and 8 assists. Valeri Nichushkin has 12 points with 7 goals of his own while Cale Makar’s got 10 points with 9 assists. Alexandar Georgiev is 5-1-1 with a 2.81 GAA and a .919 save percentage while Pavel Francouz is 0-3 with a 3.08 GAA and an .898 save percentage between the pipes for Colorado this season.

The Columbus Blue Jackets will try to salvage a split of the back-to-back after their loss to Colorado last time out. Johnny Gaudreau has a team-high 9 points with a team-high 5 goals and 4 assists while Jakub Voracek, Kent Johnson and Yegor Chinakhov each have 6 points with Voracek logging a team-high 5 assists while Chinakhov has 4 assists and Johnson has 3 goals and 3 assists. Elvis Merzlikins has gone 2-5 with a 4.75 GAA and an .863 save percentage while Daniil Tarasov has gone 1-3 with a 3.57 GAA and an .893 save percentage in goal for Columbus this year.

Colorado is 20-6 in their last 26 Saturday games and 73-29 in their last 102 games overall while the under is 8-3 in their last 11 games played on no rest. Columbus is 2-5 in their last 7 games against a team with a losing record and 6-16 in their last 22 games played on no rest while the over is 4-0 in their last 4 games against the Central division.

I get the reasoning for wanting to back either side here as this is a quick turnaround in an overseas game. That’s why I’m looking at the over. Both teams were able to find offense even though the final score looked like it was all Colorado, and I just think that this game could be similar with a lot of goals coming at both ends. Give me the over.