Rapid Recap: COL - 3 | NJD - 5

Rapid Recap: Avalanche - 3 | Devils - 5
The Colorado Avalanche lost 3-5 to the New Jersey Devils, the first time these two teams have battled each other since January 4th, 2020.
The Avs were up 2-0 at the end of the first, with early goals from Nathan Mackinnon and Mikko Rantanen.

Cale Makar opened the scoring in the second, extending his point streak to a new franchise record of thirteen games.
The Devils came back to tie the game at 3-3 with three unanswered goals over the remainder of the second. New Jersey took the lead with a power play goal in the 3rd from Nathan Bastian.
The contest ended with an empty net goal from the Devils with a final score of 3-5.
THE GOALS
1st Period
09:04 COL (1-0) - PPG Cale Makar made a pass down to the half boards to Mikko Rantanen who found Gabriel Landeskog for a quick shot off the pads of Niko Daws and up in the air where Nathan MacKinnon located the puck and batted the puck down off the ice and in.
14:27 COL (2-0) - PPG At the start of the power play, the puck was won back to Cale Makar who quickly found Nathan MacKinnon on the outside of the face-off dot for a cross ice pass to Mikko Rantanen who one-timed the puck off of Daws and into the net.
2nd Period
05:52 COL (3-0) - Cale Makar forced a turnover in the defensive zone and burst out of the zone with a quick pass Andre Burakovsky who entered the Devils zone and made a drop pass to Nathan MacKinnon. MacKinnon fed the puck to Devon Toews for a one-timer that was saved by Daws and quickly put away by Makar.
9:20 NJD (3-1) - After a broken stick from an Avalanche defenseman, the Devils' Tomas Tatar went on the counterattack and made a pass cross ice to Jesper Bratt who entered the zone, cut to the middle, and made a pass to Jonas Siegenthaler who made a quick wrist shot off the post to the stick of Tatar for a tap in goal.
12:18 NJD (3-2) - After a missed chance, Jack Hughes picked up the puck behind the Avalanche net a circled back to the point where he made a drop pass to Ty Smith who carried the puck in and attempted a back door pass which deflected off the stick of a sliding Samuel Girard and behind Kuemper.
17:21 NJD (3-3) - PPG After some offensive zone pressure, Pavel Zacha passed the puck from the point to Jesper Bratt at the face-off circle where Bratt made a couple quick moves before passing to the point to Damon Severson who wound up for a slap shot through the arm of J.T. Compher and passed Kuemper.
3rd Period
13:04 NJD (3-4) - PPG Jesper Bratt made a cross ice pass to Jack Hughes who took a quick shot that was saved by Kuemper right into the chest of Nathan Bastian who let the puck hit the ice and tapped it home.
18:19 NJD (3-5) Yegor Sharangovich scored an open net goal at the end of the third.
Final: Avalanche - 3 | Devils - 5
3 STARS
Selected by: Attending Media
POWER PLAYS
Colorado: 2/7
Opponent: 6/7
GOALTENDING BATTLE
Colorado: Darcy Kuemper saved 42 out of 46 shots.
Opponent: Nico Daws saved 26 out of 29 shots.
STAT OF THE NIGHT
Cale Makar extends assist streak to 13 games, breaking Joe Sakic's franchise record for consecutive games with a helper set in 1991-92. Makar's assist streak is the 5th longest by a defenseman in NHL history.
ROSTER REPORT
Kurtis MacDermid was a healthy scratch for the team against the Islanders.
INJURY UPDATE
Nothing to update.
UP NEXT
Colorado heads to North Carolina to face the Hurricanes and close out there three game road trip.
LINE COMBINATIONS
Based on the start of the game
Forwards
95 Andre Burakovsky - 29 Nathan MacKinnon - 96 Mikko Rantanen
92 Gabriel Landeskog - 91 Nazem Kadri - Valeri Nichushkin
18 Alex Newhook - 37 J.T. Compher - 25 Logan O'Connor
17 Tyson Jost - 43 Darren Helm - 16 Nicolas Aube- Kubel
Defensemen
7 Devon Toews - 8 Cale Makar
3 Jack Johnson - 49 Samuel Girard
6 Erik Johnson - 28 Ryan Murray
Goaltenders
35 Darcy Kuemper
39 Pavel Francouz