MacKinnon, Makar extend streaks, Avalanche top Kraken for 3rd win in row

MacKinnon, Makar extend streaks, Avalanche top Kraken for 3rd win in row

Each has point in first 7 games of season, Kiviranta scores 2 for Colorado

Avalanche at Kraken | Recap

SEATTLE — Joel Kiviranta scored twice, and Nathan MacKinnon and Cale Makar each extended his season-opening point streak for the Colorado Avalanche in a 3-2 win against the Seattle Kraken at Climate Pledge Arena on Tuesday.

MacKinnon scored a power-play goal and Makar had two assists for the Avalanche (3-4-0), who won their third straight. MacKinnon (12 points; three goals, nine assists ) and Makar (14 points; two goals, 12 assists) each pushed his season-opening run to seven games. Each has five multipoint games.

Justus Annunen made 23 saves for Colorado.

Jared McCann and Ryker Evans scored for the Kraken (4-3-0), who had won their previous three. Philipp Grubauer made 25 saves.

Kiviranta scored his first of the game off a rush to make it 1-0 at 18:32 of the first period, firing a snap shot from the slot off the left post and in behind Grubauer.

McCann tied it 1-1 at 11:57 of the second period after Jordan Eberle stripped Nikolai Kovalenko in the slot, and the puck rolled to McCann at the top of the crease. He spun to his backhand and lifted it over Annunen’s glove.

Kiviranta made it 2-1 with his second goal of the game at 14:55 of the second, tipping a Makar wrist shot from the right circle past Grubauer’s glove. It was Kiviranta’s third goal in two games.

MacKinnon pushed it to 3-1 with a power-play goal at 19:52 of the second, walking across the top of the left circle and sending a wrist shot against the grain and past Grubauer’s blocker.

Evans cut it to 3-2 with 3 seconds remaining in the game, finding a rebound in the left circle and lifting it over Annunen’s right pad.