POSTGAME NOTES & QUOTES 3, COLORADO AVALANCHE 2 (OT) OCTOBER 13, 2018

First Star TEAM NOTES (1g) The Avalanche finished 4-for-4 on the penalty kill and is now 22-for-23 (95.7%) on the kill this season. Colorado’s penalty-kill unit is a perfect Second Star 10-for-10 on home ice. Semyon Varlamov (38 svs) The Avs have not allowed a 5-on-4 (the only power-play goal Third Star against was 5-on-3) this season and has a current streak of 16 straight Elias Lindholm (1g) kills.

Nathan MacKinnon’s goal 11 seconds (:11) into the contest is the fast- TEAM STATS est goal to start a game by an Avalanche player since Antti Laaksonen Avalanche set the franchise record by scoring eight seconds (:08) into the first period on Feb. 10, 2006 at Columbus. Shots: 26 INDIVIDUAL NOTES Power Play: 0-3 Nathan MacKinnon has scored at least a goal in each of Colorado’s first five contests, matching a franchise record for a goal streak to start Penalty Kill: 4-4 a season (Mats Sundin, 1992-93). MacKinnon’s five-game goal streak also matches his career-long for any point in a season (Jan. 6-20, 2018). Faceoffs: 44% With an assist on MacKinnon’s first-period tally, Calgary notched his 200th career assist.

Shots: 41 Mikko Rantanen extended his assist streak to five games and is the first Avalanche player to register a helper in each of the first five -con Power Play: 0-4 tests since John-Michael Liles (nine games) in 2010-11.

Penalty Kill: 3-3 Ian Cole notched his first point in an Avalanche sweater with an assist on J.T. Compher’s first-period tally. Faceoffs: 56% Semyon Varlamov’s 38 saves is a season high.

Next Practice QUOTES Colorado LW Gabriel Landeskog Sunday On Tonight’s Game: “The last two periods is when we stopped playing October 14, 2018 — 12 p.m. offensive hockey—we weren’t playing aggressive hockey which is the Family Sports way we can play. We want to play fast. We see what happens when POSTGAME NOTES & QUOTES CALGARY FLAMES 3, COLORADO AVALANCHE 2 (OT) OCTOBER 13, 2018 we play fast—in the first five, 10 minutes of the first period obviously, we were doing pretty good and then we kind of just laid off the gas. All of a sudden we started making soft plays and it wasn’t good enough.”

On Future Adjustments: “Play the way we know we can play. We had a tough little game—it was a hard 60 minutes and we got outplayed. We had a good first period and we got away from them. Don’t really have all the answers for you but we started turning pucks over in our defensive zone, neutral zone, we stopped getting in on the forecheck so we just got to get back on track and do all those things.”

Colorado C Nathan MacKinnon On Tonight’s Game: “I guess we were surprised, we should have expected more of a response. It’s pretty rare that teams call a timeout quick, so obviously they’re not happy. I’m sure (Calgary Head Coach) Bill Peters wasn’t happy—got them fired up for the second and they outdid us for the rest of the game.”

Colorado LW Matt Nieto On Tonight’s Game: “I think the answer is in the first period. We came out with the energy, we played the right way and kind of let it get away from us. Yeah, we got to get back to playing like how we did in the first.”

Calgary D Mark Giordano On The Overtime Win: “Man, that team can skate. They came out of the gate really hot and really fast. I think they won their last one pretty big, so they were feeling it early, you could tell they were playing with a lot of confidence and speed. Obviously, that’s not the start we want, but I thought we respond- ed really well, especially as the game went on. We realized we just had to put pucks behind them and forecheck them and that’s what we did.”

On The Timeout: “Well (Calgary Head Coach Bill Peters) just said there’s tons of game left, but we have to get skating. We weren’t even moving the first few shifts it seemed like, but give them credit. That’s one of the fastest lines I think I’ve played against, that (Colorado C Nathan) MacKinnon line. They’re quick, they’re on the rush, their D jump in, so I thought as the game went on we did a really good job, a really nice job, and that’s a huge two points to get late like that.”

Calgary LW Johnny Gaudreau On The Overtime Winner: “Kind of a clear breakaway there, kind of faked the shot, tried to bring him all the way across and found his five-hole there.”