In Denver, the Avalanche downed the visiting Calgary Flames on Saturday, 3-1, for their third straight win.
Ivan Prosvetov made 29 saves in the victory.
“I felt good about our team coming in,” Colorado coach Jared Bednar said. “I think we had a few guys lacking a little bit of energy tonight, as I’m sure they did. They played last night too. So, if you’re ever going to get a back-to-back, it’s nice that both teams are not playing on full tanks. But I thought, overall, team effort was pretty good. Penalty kill was great again, got a good goaltending performance, scored some timely goals.”
The Avalanche improved to 14-6-0.
The Avs took a 1-0 lead at 6:31 of the first period on a strike by Jonathan Drouin .
The Flames dropped to 8-10-3.
“We’re still there, it’s just we’re getting ourselves closer to .500, and we can’t find a way to get that game to get there,” Calgary coach Ryan Huska said. “That’s the next step for us. This is a .500 road trip for us. Now we have to go home and make sure we perform well at home.”
Ryan Johansen pushed the lead to 2-0 midway through the middle frame.
Mikael Backlund was the lone striker for Calgary, his goal came at 12:04 of the second to trim the deficit to 2-1.
“You want to catch momentum with that, and then they scored,” Backlund said. “Momentum kind of swings right back to them. So, that was a tough break. Like I said, thought it was a close game even though I thought they were better than us.”
Nathan MacKinnon deflated the Flames just 34 seconds later to make it 3-
“He tends to have these stretches throughout the course of every year that he gets snakebit a little bit,” Bednar said. “He’s still generating some good chances and doesn’t put the puck in the net. He’s still picking up a lot of points and production with helping his linemates, but he also tends to get hot every once in a while and ride a streak for a while.”
Dan Vladar made 21 saves in the loss,
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