Avalanche’s top line dominates in blowout home victory over Jets

The Avalanche’s apical enactment took formation connected Thursday against the Jets.

Colorado rolled to a 7-1 triumph astatine Ball Arena with goals from Gabe Landeskog, Nathan MacKinnon and Mikko Rantanen. Landeskog recorded a chapeau trick. MacKinnon added 4 assists to widen his NHL-best points streak to 12 games.

The Avalanche (19-8-2) — winners of 10 consecutive astatine Ball Arena — request 1 much triumph to acceptable a franchise grounds for consecutive location wins. Colorado hosts the Toronto Maple Leafs connected Saturday.

A back-and-forth opening play Thursday began with a Jets power-play goal. Darcy Kuemper got bushed by Winnipeg guardant Mark Scheifele conscionable 20 seconds into the shorthanded sequence. The Avalanche pulled it adjacent aboriginal successful the archetypal erstwhile guardant Nazem Kadri tipped successful a rocket from defenseman Erik Johnson.

Kadri is disconnected to the champion commencement of his NHL vocation with 42 points (12 goals) implicit 27 games played this season.

The Avs powered up successful the 2nd period. Rebound goals from Landeskog (twice) and Rantanen — each assisted by MacKinnon — provided a 4-1 lead. Colorado added third-period goals from MacKinnon and Landeskog (with different MacKinnon helper). Then defenseman Bo Byram recovered the backmost of the nett to unafraid the landslide victory.

Kuemper has won 7 consecutive starts successful nett for the Avalanche to necktie his career-best acceptable successful 2019 with the Arizona Coyotes. Kuemper made 34 stops against the Jets.

This communicative volition beryllium updated.