DENVER (AP) — Nathan MacKinnon notched his seventh profession hat trick as a part of a four-point efficiency, and the Colorado Avalanche broke out of a two-game funk with a 5-2 win over the Minnesota Wild.
Artturi Lehkonen and Cale Makar additionally scored for the Avalanche. Alexandar Georgiev stopped 20 pictures in a bounce-back efficiency after permitting 12 targets in his earlier two video games.
The win saved Colorado in second place within the Central Division with 104 factors. The group trails Dallas by 5 factors with three video games left.
Kirill Kaprizov and Matt Boldy had targets for a Wild group that was formally eradicated from the postseason.