Rapid Recap: Avalanche 5, Coyotes 1

Joonas Donskoi scored twice in the third period to help the Colorado Avalanche extend its winning streak to a season-high seven straight games.
Tyson Jost and Valeri Nichushkin each helped on both of Donskoi tallies while Mikko Rantanen and Nathan MacKinnon had a goal and assist, respectively, to stretch their personal point streaks to six games apiece. Pierre-Edouard Bellemare and Nazem Kadri also scored for the Avs.
Goaltender Philipp Grubauer picked up his 19th win of the season in his 200th NHL game, stopping 24 of the 25 shots he faced. Andre Burakovsky, Matt Calvert, J.T. Compher, Gabriel Landeskog and Jacob MacDonald all had assists in the victory.

Oliver Ekman-Larsson scored Arizona's lone goal on the power play while Antti Raanta stopped 30-of-34 shots.
Colorado and Arizona meet again on Tuesday at 8 p.m. MT.

THE GOALS

1st Period
14:22 COL (1-0) - Matt Calvert fed a backhanded, no-look pass to Pierre-Edouard Bellemare, who scored in the slot.
15:28 COL (2-0) - Mikko Rantanen doubled the lead with a wrister from the left circle on the rush.
2nd Period
11:44 COL (3-0) Jacob MacDonald's shot from the point was blocked, and Andre Burakovsky got to the loose puck. Burakovsky then fired a shot from the top of the right circle, and Nazem Kadri deflected it into the net.
3rd Period
16:19 ARI (3-1) - PPG, Oliver Ekman-Larsson scored his first goal of the season from the left point on a power play.
17:28 COL (4-1) - ENG, Tyson Jost's shot into the empty net was deflected into the cage by Joonas Donskoi.
19:49 COL (5-1) - Joonas Donskoi scored from the bottom of the left circle.
Final: Avalanche - 5 | Coyotes - 1

POWER PLAYS

Colorado: 0 for 3
Arizona: 1 for 2

GOALTENDING BATTLE

Colorado: Philipp Grubauer stopped 24-of-25 shots in his 200th NHL game.
Arizona:Antti Raanta allowed four goals on 34 shots.

STAT OF THE NIGHT

Philipp Grubauer played in his 200th NHL game, making his 173rd start. Through his NHL tenure, the Rosenheim, Germany, native has posted a 97-59-20 record in 99 appearances with the Avalanche and 101 with the Washington Capitals.
He ranks first in the NHL in games (26), starts (25-tied) and shutouts (five). He ranks second in wins (19), setting a new career high for a season on Monday.

NOTEBOOK

Mikko Rantanen scored to extend his point streak to six games. He has six goals and five assists in his stretch… Nathan MacKinnon had a helper on Rantanen's tally to push his point streak to six games as well. He has four goals and six assists in the streak… Gabriel Landeskog also collected an assist on the marker to extend his point streak to five outings (two goals, seven assists)… Joonas Donskoi scored twice to extend his point streak to five games, tying his longest of the season. He has four goals and four assists during his stretch... The game was Cale Makar's 100th career NHL game, combining 75 in the regular season along with his 25 postseason outings. He has totalled 87 points (19 goals, 68 assists), which is tied for the eighth most in league history through 100 contests and more than the amount that Quinn Hughes (83) and Ray Bourque (81) had after their first 100... Colorado has won a season-high seven straight games and is 11-2-1 in its last 14... The Avs have scored in 17 consecutive periods... The Avalanche opened its fifth back-to-back set of the season. The team is 4-1-0 in the first outing when playing on consecutive nights and 2-0-2 in the second… Colorado is 5-1-0 in its last six road outings... The Avs are 18-3-1 when scoring first this year. They have scored the first goal in every contest of this current seven-game winning streak... Head coach Jared Bednar tied Marc Crawford (165) for third place in franchise history in wins... Bednar owns a 165-144-37 career record... It was the fifth meeting of the 2020-21 campaign between Colorado and Arizona. The Avs are now 4-1-0 against the Coyotes in 2020-21.

BIG HIGHLIGHT

IMAGE OF THE GAME

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ROSTER REPORT

Colorado used the same lineup as it did in its previous outing, but goaltender Jonas Johansson backed up Philipp Grubauer. Forwards Jayson Megna, Logan O'Connor and Kiefer Sherwoood, defensemen Greg Pateryn and Dan Renouf and goaltender Adam Werner are on the Avalanche's taxi squad.

INJURY UPDATE

Defenseman Conor Timmins, who last played on March 6, is progressing from his upper-body injury and skated with the team at morning skate and could be medically cleared to play soon. Pavel Francouz (lower body) and Erik Johnson (upper body) remain out long term.

UP NEXT

Colorado and Arizona finish their back-to-back set on Tuesday before the Avs return home for their next six games.

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 - 17 Tyson Jost - 72 Joonas Donskoi
11 Matt Calvert - 41 Pierre-Edouard Bellemare - 37 J.T. Compher
Defensemen
7 Devon Toews - 8 Cale Makar
34 Jacob MacDonald - 49 Samuel Girard
27 Ryan Graves - 4 Bowen Byram
Goaltenders
31 Philipp Grubauer
35 Jonas Johansson