Nathan Mackinnon achieved a goal and three assists and Makar Cale scored two goals and a decisive pass, while the Colorado avalanche beat the Edmonton Oilers 5-4 Friday, during the last match for the two teams before the break Faced with 4 nations.
Artturi Lehkonen and Martin Necas also scored for the avalanche (33-22-2), which won four of their last five.
Leon Draisaitl and Corey Perry each scored a pair of goals for the Oilers (34-17-4), who had a sequence of two game victories.
“Simply not lively enough defensively, and obviously some errors that found themselves in the back of our net,” said Draisaitl after the match.
Mackenzie Blackwood made 23 stops to receive the net victory for the avalanche.
Calvin Pickard recorded 17 stops in the loss for the Oilers, coming to start the second period after the Stuart Skinner starter granted three goals on 12 shots in the opening framework.
The first period saw each team mark twice for a total of four goals in just two minutes and 34 seconds.
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“Certainly, they are probably the most dangerous team in the race and we have continued to feed this transition,” said Oilers Zach Hyman striker.
“It’s not fun when it happens.”
Take -out
Avalanche: Makar directs the whole NHL defender in the goals (22) and the points (63) and is in pace for the years of career in both. The greatest number of goals he has achieved was 28 in 2021-2022, the year he won the Norris trophy as the best NHL defender, while his best season for the points was 90 Last year.
Oilers: Perry scored six goals in his last nine games. Cagey’s 39 -year -old veteran scored 12 goals in 54 games this season, equaling the 12 goals in 54 games he had last season, separated between the Blackhawks of Chicago and Edmonton.
Key
Colorado took a 5-4 advance with 4:22 to play while Pickard made a big stop on Mackinnon, but he found his own rebound and sent him to Necas, who took his 20th at home at home of the season.
Drai is the guy
Draisaitl scored his 40th goal of the season of the season, becoming the Fourth Active NHL player to have at least six seasons with 40 goals. The German striker is third in the history of the Oilers franchise with the six 40 -goals, behind Wayne Gretzky (nine) and Jari Kurri (seven). He is only the sixth European to reach the milestone of 40 goals six times in his career.
Key statistics
Connor McDavid or McKinnon have been among the three finalists in the Hart trophy in the past eight seasons, McDavid winning McDavid in 2016-2017, 2020-21 and 2022-23 and McKinnon emerging in the lead in 2023-24. In addition, Draisaitl won the Hart in 2019-20.
The next
Avalanche: return of the break in confrontation of the 4 nations on February 22 in Nashville against the Predators
Oilers: left until February 22 when they hit the road to face the philadelphia flyers.
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