In Denver, Gabriel Landeskog scored twice for the Colorado Avalanche, and six other players added single markers in an 8-0 flattening of the St Louis Blues on Friday night.

Philipp Grubauer made 21 saves for teh shut out.

The win evened the two clubs at a game apiece after Colorado dropped the season opener to the Blues, 4-1, on Wednesday night.

“What I liked was our response start to finish,” Avalanche head coach Jared Bednar said. “We got outworked, we got embarrassed in the opening game, and we lost and it wasn’t the way we wanted to lose. I think the guys took it to heart and came out with a real strong work ethic, a real strong competitiveness and a real good commitment to defend. When we defend like that, we come up with the puck a lot more and then we’re able to go on the attack.”

Nathan MacKinnon had a goal and three points on the night, and Mikko Rantanen, Nazem Kadri, Andre Burakovsky and Devon Toews each had a strike and two points in the win.

“When you have the kind of game we had (Wednesday) and you need to dig out of a rut, those three guys are the leaders of our hockey club,” Bednar said. “If we’re going to challenge guys on our team, it’s going to be those guys because of their status on our team. So we put them together to give them the best opportunity on our team to succeed and lead our hockey club, and that’s exactly what they did.

Joonas Donskoi also scored for the Avs.

“It should be a wakeup call,” Blues head coach Craig Berube said. “It’s a tough league and you have to show up every night, you’ve got to compete every night and you have to play the right way. We’re a structured hockey team, we play good defense, and we didn’t do any of that tonight.”

Colorado was 5-for-7 on the power play.

“It was great, the power play got clicking,” MacKinnon said. “It was great to see a lot of different guys start feeling it and chip in. We’re just trying to establish ourselves. It was weird, definitely a different atmosphere playing in your home rink with no fans. We were a little flat in the first period on Wednesday. Being our home opener, it was pretty dead. Tonight, we’re used to it now, had a great start. We know that wasn’t St. Louis’ best. We got some good bounces. If we play the exact same way again, I don’t think we’re going to score eight.”

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Jordan Binnington was the first of two Blues netminders to suffer the wrath of the Avs; he made 20 saves and allowed four goals before getting the hook.  All four of his goals against came in the middle frame.

“We embarrassed ourselves tonight,” the Blues’ Ryan O’Reilly said. “That was very disappointing. We came into the game and you could tell we didn’t have the detail in it. The little things steamrolled into big things. It was everyone. [Binnington] played outstanding. The time he was in the net he made some huge saves, but once they got the first one, we tightened right up. Everyone right now, we’re embarrassed. That was not what we do.”

Ville Husso entered the game after the second intermission was treated as ignominiously as Binnington, yielding four goals on 10 shots.