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- 0:05Avalanche rally past Penguins five two as McKinnon posts three assists and
- 0:09a goal. This article is being read by an automated voice generated
- 0:14by Everlett. Denver the AP, Nathan Mackinen had three assists and a
- 0:19power play goal, Arturi Lakonan scored twice, and the Colorado Avalanche rallied
- 0:24to beat the Pittsburgh Penguins five two on Friday night. TJ Hughes
- 0:29scored his first NHL goal, while Mackenzie Blackwood settled in after a
- 0:32shaky start to stop twenty nine shots. Evgeny Malkin and Brian Rust
- 0:37gave Pittsburgh a two zero lead after scoring twenty nine seconds apart
- 0:41midway through the first period. The avalanche erupted for five straight tallies,
- 0:45including three in the second period. Colorado finished one of four on
- 0:50the power play in the avalanche debut of assistant coach Brett McLean.
- 0:54He's in charge of the unit, after Dave Hoxtahl left to take
- 0:57over as head coach of the men's hockey program at Arizona State.
- 1:01Likonen's second goal tied at twenty-five seconds into the second period. Captain
- 1:06Gabriel Landescog had a goal nearly four minutes later for his eighty-third
- 1:10career go-ahead score. He's tied with Miko Rontanen for sixth most in
- 1:14Avalanche history. Hall of Famer Joe Sakic tops the list with two
- 1:18hundred and ten. Hughes got free down low and poked in a
- 1:21pass from McKinnon. He was hugged by Kale Makar, and then playfully
- 1:25squirted with water by Landiscog as Hughes made his way past the
- 1:28bench. Sidney Crosby notched his one thousand one hundred and tenth career
- 1:32assist to move into sole possession of seventh place in NHL history.
- 1:36He's also one assist shy of matching Ray Bork, one thousand one
- 1:40hundred and eleven with Boston, for the most in league history with
- 1:43a one franchise. Bruins four, Ducks two. Anaheim, California, the AP. Elias
- 1:49Lindholm assisted on the tying goal and scored the go ahead goal
- 1:52in the third period, leading Boston past Anaheim for its fourth straight
- 1:56victory. David Posternach scored a tying powerplay goal, and Frederick Brunet got
- 2:01his first NHL goal for the Bruins, who roared back from an
- 2:04early two goal deficit and improved to six two zero. Less than
- 2:08five minutes after Posternack converted a give and go with Lindholm, the
- 2:12Ducks, failed to mark Lindholm during a power play and allowed him
- 2:16to tap in a pass from Pavel Zaka with eleven thirty nine
- 2:19to play. Matthew Poitras added another goal with three forty left on
- 2:23James Hagen's second assist of the night. Michael DiPietro made twenty-five saves
- 2:28in his second start of the season for the Bruins. Beckett Seneca
- 2:32got his fifth goal, and Tim Wash also scored for the Ducks,
- 2:36who have lost three straight home games while giving up thirteen goals.
- 2:39Lucas Dostal stopped eighteen shots. Ducks captain Mikhail Granland sat out with
- 2:45an upper body injury, and goalscoring winger Cutter Gothier filled in by
- 2:49moving to center for the first time in his NHL career.