"It was a great play by Nate just to go through the seam," said Barrie. "I was originally going to try and look to find a high tip or something, but it bobbled on me so I didn't have much of a choice, so I just tried to get a good puck on net and luckily it found its way through."
The Victoria, British Columbia, native also assisted on rookie forward Tyson Jost's power-play goal in the third period, the seventh consecutive game the Avs have recorded a man-advantage tally. The club is 12-for-37 with the extra man over its last 10 games.
"Great setup up top of the power play, a couple guys going to the hard areas," said Avalanche head coach Jared Bednar. "If I remember correctly, Landeskog goes to the net, Rantanen comes to the net after the feed up top to Barrie. The shot comes in there and Jost--because of our numbers in that scoring area and getting to the front of the net--skilled play to pick it out of the air. But that what happens, you go to the right areas and you have the right players and the numbers in there, you're going to get some chances at pucks. It was a good power-play goal for us."
Nathan MacKinnon also saw his point streak extend to eight games with an assist on Barrie's goal. It was his 80th point of the season, and he became the first Avalanche player to reach the 80-point mark since 2006-07 when Joe Sakic had 100 and Andrew Brunette had 83.
He also assisted on Mikko Rantanen's goal to record his 23rd multi-point game of the season, the most by an Avs player since Sakic had 28 in 2006-07.
"I don't think the goalie really knew where the puck went and it went right behind the net and Nathan was first there, made a nice pass right away," Rantanen said of his goal. "He didn't wait a second, just gave it to me right away and the goalie couldn't get there and the puck was rolling a little bit so it was easier to lift it up."