In Denver, Cale Makar rescued the Colorado Avalanche with the game-winner with 1:38 gone in extra tome on Saturday for a 3-+2 win over the Arizona Coyotes. 
“[Nathan MacKinnon] dropped that to me,” Makar said. “I felt like their guy was kind of, I don’t know, going for the change or the middle of the ice, and I felt like I could get enough speed to go around the outside. Kind of a good spot, good pick by Mikko [Rantanen] there, and it worked out.”
Alexandar Georgiev made 18 saves in the Avs win.
“I thought we were outstanding [in] the second and third,” Avalanche coach Jared Bednar said. “First period, it seemed like every rush attack [Arizona] got, they got a scoring chance on it. For the final 40 minutes, the 5-on-5 game, especially in the third period, was outstanding.”
Colorado improved to 36-22-6 after snapping a four loss in five games stretch.
“We just stressed patience,” Makar said. “I don’t think anybody gets overanxious in here, but as a group, if you want to find that success, everybody’s got to have that patience like we did last year in the playoffs.”
Nathan MacKinnon’s second period goal tied the game, 2-2, for the Avs.
“I felt even tonight, against them, we did have to earn it, but we were really good at getting into the interior ice and getting to the net and fighting for rebounds,” Bednar said.
In the first period, the Coyotes wrapped a pair of goals around a strike from the Avs’ Denis Malgin.
Jack McBain and Clayton Keller combined to give the Coyotes a 2-1 lead after the first period.
“The guys really fought hard,” Arizona coach Andre Tourigny said. “Really good team, they got an unbelievable push the second half of the game. I think we hung in there. ‘Ingy’ made the difference, but I think we blocked a lot of shots, we fought around the net, we cleared the net for rebounds and stuff like that, so I think that was the way.”
Arizona dropped to 23-32-11 after having a two-game win streak snapped.
“It’s obviously tough when you let one go early, but we showed good character and kind of came back pretty well there in the first,” McBain said. “Obviously, [Matias Maccelli] and [Lawson Crouse] made a really good play there, and I just stop at the net and good things happen. So, it was good to get that one.”
Connor Ingram made 41 saves in the Coyotes loss.
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