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Canucks defeat Avalanche in shootout

Markus Granlund scored the lone shootout goal to give the Vancouver Canucks a 3-2 win against the Colorado Avalanche at Pepsi Center on Saturday.

The Canucks (9-11-2) went 2-1-0 on a three-game road trip.

The Avalanche (9-10-1) are 0-1-1 in the first two games of a five-game homestand.

Canucks goalie Jacob Markstrom, who made 33 saves, stopped Nathan MacKinnon, Mikko Rantanen and Matt Duchene in the shootout.

Avalanche goalie Calvin Pickard stopped Loui Eriksson after Granlund scored in the first round.

Vancouver took a 2-1 lead at 1:26 of the third period when Alexandre Burrows scored his fourth goal following Bo Horvat's cross-ice pass.

Colorado made it 2-2 at 3:56 when Jarome Iginla scored from the left point through a screen for his third goal and 614th of his NHL career.

The Avalanche tied the game 1-1 at 11:15 of the second period on a goal by Mikhail Grigorenko. Carl Soderberg skated down right wing to the net and took a shot that Markstrom stopped. The puck bounced around in the goal mouth and Grigorenko knocked it by Markstrom for his second goal of the season.

MacKinnon fell and slid hard into the boards behind the Vancouver net 22 seconds into the period. He skated to the bench under his own power and returned at 3:01 for a power play.

Eriksson gave the Canucks a 1-0 lead with a power-play goal at 3:46 of the first period. He skated down left wing and beat Pickard to the short side with 15 seconds remaining on Nikita Zadorov's tripping penalty.

Canucks defenseman Alexander Edler sustained an upper-body injury in the first period and didn't return.

-- by Rick Sadowski for NHL.com --