The Avs score 5 points in 2nd place and stop the Hurricanes’ winning streak at 8

Nathan MacKinnon and Artturi Lehkonen scored 53 seconds apart in a five-goal second period, and the Colorado Avalanche beat Carolina 6-4 on Saturday night in Denver, ending the Hurricanes’ eight-game winning streak.

MacKinnon added three assists, Lehkonen one assist, Mikko Rantanen two goals and one assist and Cale Makar and Sam Malinski also scored for Colorado. Alexandar Georgiev stopped 27 shots for the Avalanche.

Jordan Martinook scored two goals and an assist, Martin Necas added a goal and an assist, Jack Drury also scored a goal, Seth Jarvis contributed two assists and Spencer Martin made 23 saves for Carolina.

The Hurricanes had their first nine shots on goal and finally took a win when Martinook sent a pass from underneath the goal to Drury in front and his wrister beat Georgiev high at 9:02.

It was his second of the season.

MacKinnon finally had a shot on goal for the Avalanche with 9:33 left in the first period, and Colorado had taken the lead early in the second period. However, the Hurricanes struck again when Jarvis fed Martinook from the bottom of the left circle and he scored his third goal of the season with a shot to the other side at 4:37.

Makar made it 2-1 in the shootout when he stole Shayne Gostisbehere’s cross-zone pass, ran to Martin and beat him with a slap shot at 9:15. It was his sixth of the season.

The Avalanche tied it later 1:44 when Malinski hit a backhand rebound past Martin for his first goal of the season, but Necas’ eighth goal of the season gave Carolina a 3-2 lead.

Colorado then scored three goals in three minutes. MacKinnon tied the score with his seventh goal of the season at 15:49, Lehkonen’s deflection 53 seconds later made it 4-3, and Rantanen tied it on the power play at 18:49.

Martinook’s second goal of the game and fourth of the season at 2:50 of the third period brought the Hurricanes to 5-4.

Martin came on for an extra skater with 1:49 left, and Rantanen scored into an empty net at 19:10, his eighth goal of the season.

–Field level media