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Colorado beat Vegas, star Mackinnon scores to tie club record
The Colorado team confirmed its role as the favourite and defeated the Vegas team, which is going through a results crisis. The Avalanche, on the other hand, won their eighth game in the last ten and continue their winning streak.
The Colorado team confirmed its role as the favourite and defeated the Vegas team, which is going through a results crisis. The Avalanche, on the other hand, won their eighth game in the last ten and continue their winning streak.
The team from Colorado showed from the very beginning on their ice that they would have the game firmly in their hands. In addition, Nathan Mackinnon scored an assist at home. Thus, he extended his magnificent streak of home games in which he scored to number 23.
In addition, the Avalanche forward tied the club record set in the 2000-01 season by Joe Sakic, who also managed to score in the same number of home games in a row. In addition, he tied the third-longest streak in NHL history for the most home games in a row with at least one point since the start of the season.
The same feat was accomplished by the legendary Phil Esposito for the Boston Bruins in the 1973/74 season and Wayne Gretzky back in the Edmonton Oilers era in the 1983/84 season.
The Colorado team celebrated its eighth win in the last 10 games and ranks among the NHL’s best teams. Home goalie Alexandar Georgiev made 25 saves and recorded his second clean sheet of the season. It was the 15th of his career. Valeri Nichushkin contributed two goals and Finnish goal scorer Miko Rantanen had two assists.
Czech goaltender Jiri Patera was in goal for Vegas, making 32 saves, but he had to fish the puck out of his net three times. Unfortunately, it was confirmed that the Vegas team’s early season coolness is gone and the club is really in a big crisis.
By the way, the longest point streak on home ice since the beginning of the season is held by none other than Wayne Gretzky. He managed to score in the first 4 games of the 1988/89 season on home ice. The second position is occupied by none other than the best defenseman in the history of the competition. That is of course Bobby Orr, who accomplished this feat in 25 games for the Boston Bruins in the 1974/75 season.
MacKinnon thus once again caught up with the competition leader Nikita Kucherov. Both have the same number of points – 67, but the Russian still has more goals scored. This year’s competition for the Hart Trophy is likely to be very even. So far, MacKinnon, Kucherov, Matthews, McDavid and even David Pastrnak have claimed it.
Source: NHL
