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POSTGAME NOTES COLORADO AVALANCHE 4, 1 SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 2021 | HONDA CENTER

TEAM STATS TEAM NOTES Avalanche The Avalanche became the first team in the NHL to reach 60 points this season, the fastest Colorado team to reach 60 points (41 games). The Avs matched the franchise mark for the quickest to reach 60 points set Shots: 37 by the 1994-95 Nordiques.

Power Play: 1-4 The Avalanche wrapped up its four-game road trip, finishing 3-1-0 on the journey. Colorado is 11-5-2 on the road so far this season, tied with the for the second-best road winning percentage (.667) in the league. Only the (.763) have a better away win percentage. Penalty Kill: 2-2 The Avs have scored the first goal of the game a league-best 29 times this season and is 24-3-2 when Faceoffs: 50% lighting the lamp first, the most wins in the NHL.

Anaheim Colorado and Anaheim wrapped up their eight-game season series, as the Avalanche finished 6-1-1 against the Ducks. Shots: 25 The Avs surrendered just one goal in the final two games against Anaheim and surrendered two or fewer Power Play: 0-2 goals in five of the eight games of the series. Colorado’s 2.32 average goals against per game is tied with the for second in the NHL. Penalty Kill: 3-4 The Avalanche are playing its seventh set of back-to-back games and is now 6-1-0 in the first game of such sets. Faceoffs: 50%

THREE STARS INDIVIDUAL NOTES tallied three points (1g/2a) to reach 500 for his career, the fifth player in Avalanche First Star history (since 1995) and eighth in franchise history to reach the 500-point mark. He is the second player from the 2011 NHL Draft class to hit the 500-point threshold, joining Tampa Bay’s Nikita Kucherov, and 1 point (0g/1a) the 29th Swedish player in the NHL to reach the milestone.

Second Star Landeskog’s second-period tally stood as the game winner, his team-leading seventh game-winning goal Sam Carrick of the season. He is tied with Vegas’s Mark Stone for third in the NHL in game-winning markers. 1 point (0g/1a) Nathan MacKinnon (1g/1a) extended his point streak to nine games, the longest active point streak in Third Star the NHL. He has collected 15 points (6g/9a) over that stretch and is the league’s top scorer over the last Nathan MacKinnon month (since March 12) with 28 points (11g/17a). 2 points (1g/1a) Jonas Johansson finished with 24 saves and now has wins in each of his last three starts. He recorded a career-best shutout streak of 124:41 that was snapped by Anaheim’s third-period tally.

Cale Makar notched an assist for his 24th helper of the season. His .97 points-per-game average leads all NHL defensemen.

Devon Toews finished with a +2 rating and is now +24 this season, ranked second in the league.