Avalanche rallies past Kraken to claim fifth consecutive victory

The slow-starting Avalanche utilized different comeback to triumph its 5th consecutive crippled and widen its club-record location winning streak to 12 games connected Monday astatine Ball Arena.

The losing goalie: Philipp Grubauer, who took much wealth to motion with the enlargement Seattle Kraken successful the offseason. The German was typically the Avs’ No. 1 goalie implicit the past 3 seasons but chose to determination connected arsenic an unrestricted escaped agent.

Grubauer’s erstwhile teammates rallied from a 3-1 shortage to decision the Kraken 4-3 and expanse the regular-season series.

The Avs’ full five-game winning streak has featured comebacks.

Defenseman Devon Toews tied it 3-3 astatine 11:43 of the 3rd play and halfway Nazem Kadri blistered a wrist changeable past Grubauer astatine 14:17. Toews pinched successful from the constituent and had Cale Makar’s changeable carom disconnected his skate down Grubauer. Officials ruled it was not a chiseled kicking question truthful the extremity stood.

Kadri bushed Grubauer with possibly his champion extremity of the season.

Grubauer, who besides allowed 2 goals to guardant Nicolas Aube-Kubel, was facing the Avs for the 2nd clip arsenic a subordinate of the Kraken. He allowed 3 goals successful alleviation work connected Nov. 19 successful Seattle, wherever Colorado won 7-3.

The Avs played without near helping and squad skipper Gabe Landeskog, who had 2 consecutive affirmative COVID tests and landed connected the protocol lack database Monday morning. Landeskog, who has points successful his past 14 games, was named the NHL’s No. 1 prima of the week earlier helium was ruled out. He was Colorado’s hottest violative player, with 4 goals and 7 points successful his past 3 games.

Seattle, which was connected a 0-4-1 skid and hadn’t played since Jan. 1 due to the fact that of COVID postponements, jumped to a 3-1 pb successful the 2nd play and took a 3-2 vantage into the third. Avs goalie Pavel Francouz, making his 2nd commencement and 3rd quality of the season, wasn’t playing poorly but the bounces went against him and helium allowed 3 goals connected conscionable 18 shots (.833%).

Kraken goals by Marcus Johansson and Colin Blackwell were deflections from the goalmouth and teammate Jared McCann scored from a atrocious space against the sideboards by conscionable throwing the puck connected nett done traffic.

Aube-Kubel gave the Avs a 1-0 pb aboriginal successful the archetypal play by finishing a tic-tac-toe passing enactment with linemates Alex Newhook and Logan O’Connor. Aube-Kubel got the Avs wrong 3-2 precocious successful the 2nd play by tapping successful a rebound disconnected a changeable from Andre Burakovsky.

Footnotes. The Avs were scheduled to depart for Nashville aft the game. They sojourn the Predators successful a single-game travel Tuesday, opening the archetypal of 2 consecutive-night games this week. Colorado is scheduled to statesman a home-and-away acceptable with the Arizona Coyotes connected Friday successful Denver. However, the Coyotes had 5 players and 2 coaches onshore connected the COVID lack database Monday and much affirmative tests could perchance postpone those games.