Colorado Avalanche Postgame Notes Colorado Avalanche 3, Los Angeles Kings 2 Friday, May 7, 2021 | Staples Center

COLORADO AVALANCHE POSTGAME NOTES COLORADO AVALANCHE 3, LOS ANGELES KINGS 2 FRIDAY, MAY 7, 2021 | STAPLES CENTER

TEAM STATS TEAM NOTES Avalanche The Avalanche/Nordiques franchise won its 1,500th regular-season game, bringing the club’s overall record to 1500-1327-261-142. The Avs are the 18th NHL franchise to reach 1,500 wins and the first among the 1979 Shots: 37 WHA expansion teams.

Power Play: 1-4 1500 Quebec/Colorado 1466 Edmonton Penalty Kill: 1-1 1361 Hartford/Carolina 1333 Winnipeg/Arizona Faceoffs: 55% The Avs began their ninth of 10 back-to-back sets this season and are now a combined 13-1-3 in consecutive-night games and 8-1-0 in the first game of such sets. Kings Colorado is 9-0-0 on Friday nights in 2020-21. Shots: 17

Power Play: 0-1 INDIVIDUAL NOTES Mikko Rantanen scored his 30th goal of the season and is one goal shy of his career best (31) set during the 2018- 19 campaign. Rantanen’s two 30-goal seasons are tied for the fourth-most since the franchise moved to Denver. Penalty Kill: 3-4 MOST 30-GOAL SEASONS, AVALANCHE HISTORY (SINCE 1995) Faceoffs: 45% Player 30 Goal Seasons Sakic 6 (1995-96, 1998-99, 2000-01, 2003-04, 2005-06, 2006-07) Hejduk 5 (1999-00, 2000-01, 2002-03, 2003-04, 2006-07) THREE STARS MacKinnon 3 (2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20) First Star Forsberg 2 (1995-96, 1998-99) Cale Makar Rantanen 2 (2018-19, 2020-21) 2 points (1g/1a) Rantanen reached the 30-goal mark in his 48th game, becoming just the second Avs player since 1995 to reach 30 tallies in fewer than 50 contests. He joins Joe Sakic (44 games) in 1995-96 and Nathan MacKinnon (49) in Second Star 2019-20. Rantanen also equaled his career high with seven shots (also: April 12, 2021 vs. Arizona). Mikko Rantanen 1 point (1g/0a) Cale Makar (1g/1a) recorded his 10th multi-point game of the season, equaling the number of multi-point perfor- mances he had in his rookie campaign in 2019-20. Makar, who now has 41 points this season, is the first defen- Third Star seman in franchise history to reach 40+ points in each of his first two NHL seasons. Makar’s 41 points are tied Andre Burakovsky for eighth (Jeff Petry) among NHL defensemen, and his 1.03 points-per-game are tops among NHL blueliners. 2 points (0g/2a) Makar’s goal was his third game-winning marker of the season, tied for first among league defensemen and one shy of his career best in 2019-20.

Tyson Jost has scored in consecutive games for the first time in 2020-21 and has equaled his career best goal streak (5x - last: Feb. 18-20, 2019).

Philipp Grubauer appeared in his 38th game and made his 37th start of the season, both career highs that sur- pass his previous bests of 37 games (2018-19) and 36 starts in 2019-20. Grubauer ranks second in the NHL with 28 wins and sixth in goals-against average (2.03).

Alex Newhook picked up his first NHL point with an assist on Cale Makar’s second-period tally.

Andre Burakovsky finished with two assists to extend his point streak to a season-best four games. He has col- lected six points (3g/3a) in that span.

Jacob MacDonald (0g/1a) has a point in two straight games since returning from injury, the third time this season he has tallied a point in consecutive contests.