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Avalanche Notes Central Division Standings PUTTING IN EXTRA TIME: The Avalanche played consecutive overtime Team GP W L OT PTS games for the first time this season, going to extra time on Friday in Carolina and Sunday against Tampa Bay. Colorado is now 6-2 in overtime, 58 39 13 6 84 0-1 in shootouts and 6-3 overall when playing beyond 60 minutes. Mikko 59 36 18 5 77 Rantanen scored his first career overtime on Friday, becoming the St. Louis Blues 60 31 24 5 67 third-youngest Avs player to score an OT winner in the regular season. 58 28 22 8 64

LANDESKOG REACHES 400: Avalanche Jets 62 28 29 5 61 appeared in his 400th NHL game on Feb. 14 at New Jersey. Landeskog, 60 23 27 10 56 who was the No. 2 overall pick in the 2011 NHL Draft, became the first 57 16 38 3 35 player from that draft class to reach 400 contests and has the most career points from the 2011 draft class with 269 (111g/158a). Avalanche Leaders

Upcoming Games Category Player Number Goals 16 Tuesday, February 21 vs. Pepsi Center, 7 p.m. MT, TV: Altitude, Radio: 950 AM Assists Nathan MacKinnon 27 The Avalanche and the Kings meet for the third and final time this Points Nathan MacKinnon 39 season and the second of two matchups at Pepsi Center. Each Power-Play Goals Jarome Iginla 4 team has won at home in the 2016-17 season series. The Avs took 4 a 4-1 win on Nov. 15, and Los Angeles won the second tilt 5-0 on Gabriel Landeskog 4 Feb. 1. Minutes Nikita Zadorov 73 Thursday, February 23 at Nashville Predators Time on Ice/Game 23:34 Bridgestone Arena, 6 p.m. MT, TV: Altitude 2, Radio: 950 AM GWG Nathan MacKinnon 4 Colorado and Nashville will meet for the fifth and final time this SHG Nathan MacKinnon 2 season on Thursday, the second of two contests in the series that Goals Against Avg. Calvin Pickard 2.91 will be played at Bridgestone Arena. The Avs are 0-4-0 this season against their Central Division foes. In their last meeting in Save Percentage Calvin Pickard .908 Nashville on Dec. 6, the Avalanche scored two goals on the power play, but fell 4-3. Prospect Report The won their 12 straight Saturday, February 25 vs. game with a 4-1 victory over the Alaska Aces Pepsi Center, 8 p.m. MT, TV: Altitude, Radio: 950 AM on Sunday. The 12-game win streak is tied for Just nine days after their first meeting of the season, the the second-longest streak in Colorado Eagles Avalanche and the Sabres clash again, this time at Pepsi Center. history. The Eagles have outscored their Colorado lost the first game of the season series 2-0 on Thursday opponents 59-24 during the streak. night. The Avs have won 10 of their last 12 games against Buffalo and have been victorious in five straight at home against the The ’s Rodeo Road Trip Sabres, their last loss at Pepsi Center coming on Dec. 4, 2005. continues Saturday, Feb. 25, as the Rampage play a back-to-back set against the Community Highlights Moose to close out the annual journey.

On Monday, Avalanche players Nathan Quotable MacKinnon and Mark Barberio participated in a floor hockey clinic with 70 intellectually disabled "You got to know who you're with. I know he athletes from Special Olympics Colorado as part likes to one-time pucks from the top of the of the Avalanche Street/Floor Hockey program circle on opportunities like that. I was just and Hockey is for Everyone month. The able to kind of get the D-man to flip his stick a participants learned basic hockey skills from the little bit, maybe freeze the goalie a little bit players and received a jersey, stick and tickets to with a fake and then slide it over. Mikko did a an upcoming Avalanche game. great job getting up, and what a by Mikko there." Practice Schedule —Avalanche center Matt Duchene on Colorado’s game-winning overtime goal against Day Date Location Time the on Friday night Tuesday February 21 Game #58 vs. Los Angeles Kings 7 p.m. Wednesday February 22 TBD TBD Thursday February 23 Game #59 at Nashville Predators 6 p.m. Friday February 24 TBD TBD Saturday February 25 Game #60 vs. Buffalo Sabres 8 p.m. Sunday February 26 No Practice *All practice dates/times are subject to change, all times Mountain