POSTGAME NOTES COLORADO AVALANCHE 6, DALLAS STARS 4 STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS | ROUND 2, GAME 3 | AUG. 26, 2020 DALLAS LEADS SERIES 2-1 First Star TEAM NOTES Cale Makar (3a) The Avalanche scored six or more goals for the third time in the 2020 Stanley Cup Playoffs. Colo- rado is averaging a league-best 3.82 goals per game. Second Star Mikko Rantanen (1g/1a) With Nikita Zadorov’s second-period marker, the Avalanche has now had six goals scored by de- fensemen this postseason, which ranks third in the NHL behind Dallas (8) and Vegas (7). Third Star Nikita Zadorov (1g/1a) The Avs finished with 71 hits, their most in any game (regular or postseason) since the stat began tracking in 2005-06. Their previous postseason high for hits in a postseason game was 46 on April 17, 2019 at Calgary. The 71 hits are the most by any team in a playoff contest that didn’t TEAM STATS require overtime. Avalanche INDIVIDUAL NOTES Nathan MacKinnon extended his point streak to 11 games, establishing a new franchise record Shots: 32 for the longest such streak in the postseason. He surpasses Joe Sakic (10 games in 1996) and Marian Stastny (10 games in 1982). MacKinnon notched two assists and now has a league-best Power Play: 0-3 20 points (7g/13a), the most points by an Avalanche player in a playoff year since Peter Forsberg in 2002 (27 points). Penalty Kill: 3-3 MacKinnon has produced multi-point efforts in five straight games (5g/8a), the first Avalanche player to record two or more points in five consecutive playoff outings since Peter Forsberg in Faceoffs: 58% 2002 (also five). Dallas Gabriel Landeskog has registered at least a point in five consecutive contests, the longest playoff point streak of his career. He has totaled eight points (2g/6a) over that span. Landeskog also Shots: 37 recorded 12 hits, the most by an Avalanche player in the playoffs since the stat began tracking in 2005-06. Power Play: 0-3 Cale Makar recorded three assists and now has 11 points (2g/9a) in the 2020 Stanley Cup Play- offs, the most points by an Avalanche defenseman in a playoff year since 2002 (Greg De Vries, 13 Penalty Kill: 3-3 points in 21 games; Rob Blake, 12 points in 20 games). He established a new franchise record for assists in a playoff game by a first-year defenseman and matched the franchise mark for Faceoffs: 42% most points in a postseason contest by a rookie blueliner (Jeff Brown, April 12, 1987 vs. Hartford, 1g/2a). Makar’s three points is the most ever by an Avalanche rookie defenseman in a postseason contest, and he became the 21st rookie blueliner in NHL history with 3+ points in a playoff game. Andre Burakovsky scored his fourth goal of the postseason, a new career high for the playoffs that eclipses his previous best of three goals set during the 2016-17 postseason. With a goal and an assist tonight, Nikita Zadorov recorded his first career multi-point game in the playoffs. Pierre-Edouard Bellemare scored his first career postseason goal. Kevin Connauton registered his first career playoff point..