Colorado Avalanche at Vancouver Canucks

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Colorado Avalanche

19-15-3

Final
2 - 4

Vancouver Canucks

17-18-3

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 Series

VAN leads series 2-0

Scoring Summary

Goal	1st Period 19:00	Goal scored by Mikko Rantanen assisted by Cale Makar and Artturi Lehkonen (PPG)
Goal	2nd Period 1:49	Goal scored by Samuel Girard assisted by Andreas Englund and Alex Newhook
Goal	2nd Period 13:15	Goal scored by Andrei Kuzmenko assisted by Ilya Mikheyev and Oliver Ekman-Larsson (PPG)
Goal	2nd Period 15:14	Goal scored by Andrei Kuzmenko assisted by Elias Pettersson and Ethan Bear
Goal	2nd Period 15:48	Goal scored by Brock Boeser assisted by Ilya Mikheyev and Bo Horvat
Goal	3rd Period 18:24	Goal scored by J.T. Miller assisted by Elias Pettersson and Oliver Ekman-Larsson (EN)

Statistics

COL		VAN
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
Elias N. Pettersson, D	Day-To-Day	Mar 14
Pierre-Olivier Joseph, D	Injured Reserve	Mar 4
Thatcher Demko, G	Injured Reserve	Mar 3
Jonathan Lekkerimaki, RW	Out	Feb 27
Filip Chytil, C	Injured Reserve	Feb 25