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Avalanche get win on Winnipeg miscue

Rene Bourque was credited with a goal at 1:23 of overtime to give the Colorado Avalanche a 3-2 win against the Winnipeg Jets at Pepsi Center on Friday.

Bourque, who scored in the second period, was the last Avalanche player to touch the puck before a Jets player inadvertently shot the puck past Jets goalie Michael Hutchinson.

The Avalanche (6-7-0) ended a two-game losing streak.

Colorado played the third period and overtime without center Matt Duchene, who sustained an undisclosed injury early in the second period.

The Jets (7-7-2) tied the game 2-2 on goals by Blake Wheeler and Mark Scheifele 2:33 apart in the second period.

Wheeler scored at 13:27 after Jets forward Nikolaj Ehlers forced a turnover at the Avalanche blue line. Wheeler skated in alone on goalie Semyon Varlamov and beat him to the stick side for his fifth goal.

Scheifele, who began the game leading the NHL in scoring, scored a power-play goal at 16:00 to tie the game. Ehlers passed to Wheeler behind the net and he fed Scheifele in the right slot for his 10th goal and 20th point.

Scheifele has a five-game scoring streak [five goals and six assists] and Ehlers has two goals and eight assists in the past five games.

The Avalanche took a 1-0 lead at 1:03 of the second period on Mikko Rantanen's first NHL goal. It came on a power play.

Erik Johnson was inside the blue line when he passed to Rantanen in the right circle. Rantanen moved to the faceoff dot and beat Hutchinson to the short side.

Bourque increased the Colorado lead to 2-0 at 9:33 with his third goal. Tyson Barrie skated down the right side and passed across to Bourque near the crease on the left side for a tap-in.

--by Rick Sadowski for NHL.com--