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Avs attempt to pull away from Kraken behind stars
The Colorado Avalanche took back home-ice advantage in their first-round Western Conference playoff series with a 6-4 victory on Saturday night against the Seattle Kraken.
The defending Stanley Cup champions can take control of the best-of-seven series with a win on Monday night, when they are back in Seattle for Game 4.
The Avalanche’s stars shined Saturday, with Nathan MacKinnon scoring his first two goals of the playoffs. Defenseman Cale Makar added his first goal of the postseason after winning the Conn Smythe Trophy as the MVP of last year’s championship run, and Mikko Rantanen scored twice in the third period.
MacKinnon found the net after being blanked by Seattle goaltender Philipp Grubauer, a former teammate, on 15 shots on goal through the first two games.
MacKinnon helped spoil the Kraken’s first home playoff game in franchise history, which was also the first played in Seattle since the Metropolitans were in the finals against the Montreal Canadiens in 1919.
Jaden Schwartz scored twice for the Kraken and Grubauer made 28 saves.
Rantanen gave Colorado a 4-3 lead at 3:01 of the third period, sneaking a puck between Grubauer’s pads, and MacKinnon scored on a wrister at 4:29. Rantanen made it 6-3 with an empty-net goal.
Hakstol indicated Sunday that the Kraken have to be better in the faceoff dot, as they’ve won just 43 percent of the draws in the series.
The Avalanche were without winger Valeri Nichushkin, who scored the tying goal in a 3-2 victory in Game 2 in Denver, for personal reasons.
Bednar was asked Sunday whether he had a timeline for Nichushkin’s return and offered a terse “no.”
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Kraken projected lineup
Forwards
Jared McCann – Matty Beniers – Jordan Eberle
Jaden Schwartz – Alex Wennberg – Morgan Geekie
Eeli Tolvanen – Yanni Gourde – Oliver Bjorkstrand
Brandon Tanev – Ryan Donato – Daniel Sprong
Defencemen
Vince Dunn – Adam Larsson
Jamie Oleksiak – Will Borgen
Carson Soucy – Justin Schultz
Goalies
Philipp Grubauer
Martin Jones
Scratched: Cale Fleury, Jaycob Megna, Jesper Froden, Chris Driedger
Injured: Andre Burakovsky (lower body), Joonas Donskoi (upper body), John Hayden (lower body)
Avalanche projected lineup
Forwards
Artturi Lehkonen – Nathan MacKinnon – Evan Rodrigues
Matt Nieto – J.T. Compher – Mikko Rantanen
Ben Meyers – Lars Eller – Denis Malgin
Andrew Cogliano – Alex Newhook – Logan O’Connor
Defencemen
Bowen Byram – Cale Makar
Samuel Girard – Devon Toews
Josh Manson – Erik Johnson
Goalies
Alexandar Georgiev
Pavel Francouz
Scratched: Brad Hunt, Kurtis MacDermid, Keith Kinkaid, Valeri Nichushkin
Injured: Darren Helm (lower body), Jack Johnson (lower body)
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