Rapid Recap: Avalanche 3, Sharks 0

Nazem Kadri scored twice and Philipp Grubauer recorded his second shutout of the season in the Colorado Avalanche's 3-0 victory against the San Jose Sharks on Thursday at Ball Arena.
Grubauer stopped all 21 shots he faced to register the 13th shutout of his career. Andre Burakovsky scored his third goal of the season in the contest, and Brandon Saad collected two assists. Joonas Donskoi, Cale Makar and Nathan MacKinnon also picked up helpers in the win.
Devan Dubnyk made 35 saves in the contest for San Jose.

Colorado opens a four-game set against the Minnesota Wild with a back-to-back in St. Paul on Saturday and Sunday.
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THE GOALS

1st Period
No Scoring
2nd Period
No Scoring
3rd Period
9:55 COL (1-0) - Nazem Kadri scored after finding a loose puck in front of the net. Brandon Saad and Joonas Donskoi assisted on the goal.
11:53 COL (2-0) Andre Burakovsky tapped in a feed from Nazem Kadri to score his third of the year.
18:54 COL (3-0) - PPG, Nazem Kadri tipped a Cale Makar shot into the net while the Avs were on the power play.
Final: Avalanche - 3 | Sharks - 0

POWER PLAYS

Colorado: 1 for 4
San Jose: 0 for 4

GOALTENDING BATTLE

Colorado: Philipp Grubauer recorded a shutout after stopping all 21 shots he faced.
San Jose: Devan Dubnyk allowed three goals on 38 shots.

STAT OF THE NIGHT

With a shot on goal in the first period, Nathan MacKinnon set a new franchise record for consecutive regular-season games with a shot, surpassing Joe Sakic's stretch of 227 straight contests. MacKinnon's 228-game streak began on Oct. 14, 2017 at Dallas and is the longest current run in the NHL.

NOTEBOOK

Philipp Grubauer stopped all 21 shots he faced to record his second shutout of the season and 13th of his career... Nazem Kadri scored twice to register his first multi-goal game of the campaign... Kadri factored on all three Avalanche goals and now has 399 points in his career... Brandon Saad recorded two assists, his second consecutive multi-point outing after he also scored two goals on Tuesday against San Jose... Cale Makar now has nine assists on the season, the most among all skaters so far this year... The Avalanche's penalty-kill unit killed off all four penalties and has now had a streak of 17 straight kills... The Avs have not allowed a power-play goal on home ice this season, going 15-for-15... It was the 100th regular season meeting between the franchises, and the Avs are now 50-38-12 in 100 all-time matchups... The Avalanche and Sharks will meet again on March 1 and 3 in San Jose.

BIG HIGHLIGHT

IMAGE OF THE GAME

Swedish Smirks.

ROSTER REPORT

Colorado did not make any changes to its lineup, as it used the same skaters as it did on Tuesday against San Jose.

INJURY UPDATE

Head coach Jared Bednar does not have a timeline for when goaltender Pavel Francouz could return form a lower-body injury and forward Matt Calvert is out indefinitely with an upper-body injury. Pierre-Edouard Bellemare left the game at the end of the first period with a lower-body injury and did not return. Bednar did not have an update on him postgame.

UP NEXT

The Avalanche begins its first four-game series of the season against the Minnesota Wild. The teams will play a back-to-back in St. Paul on Saturday and Sunday before meeting at Ball Arena on Tuesday and Thursday.

LINE COMBINATIONS

Based on start of the game
Forwards
92 Gabriel Landeskog - 29 Nathan MacKinnon - 96 Mikko Rantanen
20 Brandon Saad - 91 Nazem Kadri - 95 Andre Burakovsky
13 Valeri Nichushkin - 37 J.T. Compher - 72 Joonas Donskoi
17 Tyson Jost - 41 Pierre-Edouard Bellemare - 44 Kiefer Sherwood
Defensemen
7 Devon Toews - 8 Cale Makar
4 Bowen Byram - 49 Samuel Girard
27 Ryan Graves - 6 Erik Johnson
Goaltenders
31 Philipp Grubauer
32 Hunter Miska