Ryan Johansen scored the tiebreaking goal in the third period and the Colorado Avalanche broke out of an offensive slump with a 6-3 win over the short-handed New Jersey Devils on Tuesday night.
Team officials have described the status of Hughes, who has 20 points in 10 games this season, as week-to-week. Hischier has missed the last five games with an upper body injury.The Avalanche had lost three of their previous four games, but kept pace with the Devils after New Jersey scored first. The Avalanche took the lead for good when Johansen put in a shot from between the circles at 7:37 of the third. About two minutes later, MacKinnon scored on a backhand shot.
New Jersey scored twice with the man advantage in the second period around a short-handed goal by Wood as the teams went into the third period tied 3-3. The Devils were in the power play for an extended period when Colton drew a two-minute minor for boardingand a five-minute major for cross-checking Meier, who caught a glancing blow to his face from Colton’s stick. Colton also drew a game misconduct.
Meier put in a wrist shot to even the score 2-2 at 11:04 of the second but 30 seconds later Wood shook loose on a short-handed breakaway to give the Avalanche the lead only to have Hamilton knock through another power-play goal at 15:04 of the second. New Jersey opened the scoring less than four minutes into the game, converting on a wrist shot by Toffoli that beat goalieColorado evened the score at 15:50 of the first on Rantanen’s tip-in shot past goalieThe Avalanche went in front when Colton put in a rebound at 2:25 of the second.
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