Colorado Avalanche at Vancouver Canucks
· National Hockey League
Andrei Kuzmenko scores twice, Canucks beat Avalanche 4-2
Brock Boeser and J.T. Miller also scored for the Canucks. They snapped a three-game losing streak to improve to 17-18-3.
Collin Delia stopped 29 shots for Vancouver. Elias Pettersson and Oliver Ekman-Larsson each had two assists.
Mikko Rantanen and Samuel Girard scored for Colorado and Alexandar Georgiev made 39 saves. The defending champion Avalanche are 0-4-1 in their last five to fall to 19-15-3.
A highlight reel play set up Vancouver’s second goal.
Putting the puck between his owns legs, Kuzmenko sprung Pettersson for a partial breakaway. The Swedish center drove into the Colorado zone, took the puck around the net, and got off a shot as he fell to the ice. Kuzmenko then forced the puck in past Georgiev’s skate, tying it at 2 with his 17th goal of the season.
Boeser scored the go-ahead goal 34 seconds later, sending a wrist shot past the netminder from in tight.
UP NEXT
Avalanche: At Edmonton on Saturday.
Canucks: At Winnipeg on Sunday in first game of a five-game trip.
Regular Season SeriesVAN leads series 2-0
Scoring Summary
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Goal | 1st Period 19:00 | Goal scored by Mikko Rantanen assisted by Cale Makar and Artturi Lehkonen (PPG) |
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Goal | 2nd Period 1:49 | Goal scored by Samuel Girard assisted by Andreas Englund and Alex Newhook |
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Goal | 2nd Period 13:15 | Goal scored by Andrei Kuzmenko assisted by Ilya Mikheyev and Oliver Ekman-Larsson (PPG) |
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Goal | 2nd Period 15:14 | Goal scored by Andrei Kuzmenko assisted by Elias Pettersson and Ethan Bear |
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Goal | 2nd Period 15:48 | Goal scored by Brock Boeser assisted by Ilya Mikheyev and Bo Horvat |
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Goal | 3rd Period 18:24 | Goal scored by J.T. Miller assisted by Elias Pettersson and Oliver Ekman-Larsson (EN) |
Statistics
 COL |
 VAN |
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|---|---|---|
| 6 | Blocked Shots | 24 |
| 24 | Hits | 29 |
| 2 | Takeaways | 3 |
| 32 | Shots | 43 |
| 1 | Power Play Goals | 1 |
| 5 | Power Play Opportunities | 7 |
| 20.0 | Power Play Percentage | 14.3 |
| 0 | Short Handed Goals | 0 |
| 0 | Shootout Goals | 0 |
| 28 | Faceoffs Won | 38 |
| 42.4 | Faceoff Win Percent | 57.6 |
| 7 | Giveaways | 9 |
| 8 | Total Penalties | 5 |
| 24 | Penalty Minutes | 10 |
Vancouver Canucks Injuries
| NAME, POS | STATUS | DATE |
|---|---|---|
| Filip Chytil, C | Injured Reserve | Nov 13 |
| Mackenzie MacEachern, LW | Injured Reserve | Sep 29 |
| Thatcher Demko, G | Injured Reserve | Sep 28 |
Colorado Avalanche Injuries
| NAME, POS | STATUS | DATE |
|---|---|---|
| Cale Makar, D | Day-To-Day | Nov 12 |
| Nathan MacKinnon, C | Day-To-Day | Nov 12 |
| Josh Manson, D | Injured Reserve | Nov 9 |
| Zachary L'Heureux, LW | Injured Reserve | Oct 23 |
