Avs win after 4 games losing streak
The official game recap Colorado Avalanche vs Winnipeg Jets.The Colorado Avalanche rallied for two third-period goals and goalie Calvin Pickard made saves against each shooter for the Winnipeg Jets in a 4-3 shootout win at Pepsi Center on Thursday.
Pickard made saves against Mathieu Perreault and Blake Wheeler in the tiebreaker. Nathan MacKinnon and Matt Duchene scored against Jets goalie Ondrej Pavelec to lift the Avalanche to the victory.
Pickard stopped Andrew Ladd on a breakaway, then denied Bryan Little's rebound attempt with 2:40 left in overtime. Pavelec made a save against Duchene in the slot with 1:46 to go.
The win snapped the Avalanche's losing streak at four games (0-3-1).
The Jets went 1-0-1 on their two-game road trip and have gone 3-0-3 in their past six road games.
Colorado's Ryan O'Reilly scored with 2:42 remaining in the third period to tie the game 3-3. Gabriel Landeskog was in the right circle when he took a shot that hit Pavelec's right pad. O'Reilly was driving to the net and banged in the loose puck.
Mark Scheifele, who had two assists, gave the Jets a 3-1 lead at 4:32 of the third period with his first goal in 10 games. After an Avalanche turnover, Perreault left a drop pass for Scheifele, who beat Pickard to the short side.
Jarome Iginla drew the Avalanche within 3-2 at 12:55 with a shot from the right circle that handcuffed Pavelec.
The Jets used second-period power-play goals from Ladd and Paul Postma to take a 2-1 lead.
Ladd, who has three goals and three assists in three games against the Avalanche this season, swept a loose puck into the net at 1:21 to open the scoring. Pickard deflected Scheifele's shot high in the air with his glove. When the puck landed, Ladd knocked it into the net before Avalanche defenseman Erik Johnson could get to it.
The Avalanche tied it at 3:55 on a goal by Duchene. Alex Tanguay carried the puck up ice and passed to Jan Hejda on the left side as Duchene skated to the net. Pavelec was watching Hejda, who passed to Duchene for a redirection into a half-open net.
The Jets went ahead at 14:40. Scheifele showed plenty of patience with the puck in the lower portion of the left circle before he passed to Postma, who cruised untouched down the middle and scored into an open net.
Colorado's Daniel Briere had a clean breakaway with 2:08 left in the period, but he skated in too far and hit the outside of the right post with his shot as Pavelec went down.
The Jets outshot the Avalanche 11-1 in the final 16:05 of the period after Duchene tied the score and 16-4 in the period for a 24-14 advantage through 40 minutes.
The Avalanche managed two shots on two power plays in the first period and one shot on two third-period advantages. They've gone 3-for-30 on power plays in the past 11 games.
-- by Rick Sadowski for NHL.com --
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12/12/2014 - 06:01
