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a Saturday night victory in Sunrise over the visiting Florida Panthers by a score of 7-4. With his goal for Colorado, Mikko Rantanen now has 10 goals in his last nine games played. In addition, he had three assists. Assists came from Cale Makar and Alexandar Georgiev, who recorded 27 saves to earn his sixth consecutive victory in goal.

In their last seven games, the Avalanche have gone 6-1-0. Other scorers for the team include Logan O’Connor, Samuel Girard, Oliver Kylington, and Valeri Nichushkin (empty-net goal). Anton Lundell, Carter Verhaeghe, Sam Reinhart, and Aleksander Barkov scored for the Panthers, who have gone winless in their previous five games.

Reinhart has now scored in 13 consecutive games. He has 11 goals and 8 assists during that span. With fifteen goals on the board, he entered the game tied for the league lead. Even though he made 18 saves, Panthers goalie Sergei Bobrovsky let in a goal—a personal best—for the season.

Just 52 seconds into the match, Verhaeghe scored Florida’s first goal with a shot from the bottom of the right circle that was off-target. It appeared as though Georgiev was taken aback by his high shot to the near side. A goal by Drouin, assisted by a Makar deflection, knotted the score at 9 minutes and thirteen seconds in the first period for Colorado. The puck trickled in behind Bobrovsky as he rushed forward.

With 15 minutes and 46 seconds remaining in the first, the Panthers took a 2-1 lead when Barkov scored off a rebound that had ricocheted off Georgiev’s right shoulder. At the beginning of the play, Niko Mikkola took a point shot, and Matthew Tkachuk deflected the ball.

Just 34 seconds into the second period, Colorado leveled the game thanks to a Makar feed to Drouin sliding laterally in front of the goalie. An open backhander allowed Drouin to score. With 15 minutes and fifty-six seconds remaining in the second, the Avalanche went ahead 3-2 on a breakaway goal scored by Kylington, who found O’Connor in stride.

Girard and Rantanen scored for Colorado to increase their lead to 5-2. Afterwards, Reinhart deflected a feed from Aaron Ekblad and scored a power-play goal with 1:20 remaining in the second.

Ekblad scored for Florida on a 5-on-3 power play with 15 minutes and 43 seconds remaining in the third. But the goal was nullified because Tkachuk was called for goalkeeper interference for standing in the crease.

The remainder of Florida’s power play was unsuccessful when the state lost its challenge to the decision on video review. The game was sealed with a top-shelf goal by Kylington, extending the lead to 6-3 with 4:11 remaining.