Success in Sunrise

The Avalanche beat the Panthers 7-4 on Saturday at Amerant Bank Arena to improve to 3-0 on this road trip and 12-9-0 on the season. Jonathan Drouin scored twice, Mikko Rantanen posted four points, and Valeri Nichushkin recorded three points.

How It Happened

Florida’s Carter Verhaeghe opened the scoring at 52 seconds of the first period with a right-circle wrist shot.

Drouin scored his first goal of the season to tie the game at 9:13 of the opening frame from the doorstep when he deflected the rebound from Cale Makar’s shot past Panthers goalie Sergei Bobrovsky.

Jo standing strong in front of the net. #GoAvsGo pic.twitter.com/mygm5jS4cB

— Colorado Avalanche (@Avalanche) November 23, 2024

The Panthers took a 2-1 lead at 15:44 of the first period when Aleksander Barkov scored from the left doorstep.

Drouin netted his second of the night to level the score at two apiece at 34 seconds of the second period off a fabulous centering feed from Makar. With assists on the first two goals of the game, Makar recorded the 100th multi-point game of his career.

Beep beep ️

Jonathan Drouin coming through!#GoAvsGo pic.twitter.com/LaWxdbvrJu

— Colorado Avalanche (@Avalanche) November 24, 2024

Colorado took a 3-2 lead when Oliver Kylington sent Logan O’Connor on a breakaway with a beautiful pass and O’Connor scored his second goal of the season at 4:04 of the middle frame.

Beautiful pass ➡️ bar down goal #GoAvsGo pic.twitter.com/XbdLA6rsli

— Colorado Avalanche (@Avalanche) November 24, 2024

Samuel Girard tallied his second goal of the season to double the Avs’ lead at 8:54 of the middle frame when his left-point shot deflected off the skate of a Panthers defender and in.

The goal goes to Sammy G!#GoAvsGo pic.twitter.com/0CRjR90Wa7

— Colorado Avalanche (@Avalanche) November 24, 2024

The Burgundy and Blue took a 5-2 lead at 16:58 of the second frame when Mikko Rantanen scored his 14th goal of the season with a tap-in from the right doorstep off a great centering pass from Girard.

Tic-tac-toe ✅#GoAvsGo pic.twitter.com/8rx20rd2da

— Colorado Avalanche (@Avalanche) November 24, 2024

Florida got one back on the power play at 18:40 of the second period with a Sam Reinhart deflection on Aaron Ekblad’s shot from the point.

The Panthers thought they scored another power-play goal at 4:17 of the third period but it was disallowed due to a goaltender interference call.

Kylington scored his first goal of the season to give the Avs a 6-3 lead at 15:49 of the third period with a wrist shot from the slot off a feed from Nichushkin.

A look at Kylington's shot from the slot. #GoAvsGo pic.twitter.com/X28KDAHt98

— Colorado Avalanche (@Avalanche) November 24, 2024

Nichushkin scored his first goal of the season on an empty net at 17:15 of the third period to put the Avalanche up 7-3.

Anton Lundell made it a 7-4 game with a goal at 18:17 of the third frame.

Next Up

The Avalanche conclude their four-game road trip against the Tampa Bay Lightning on Monday at 5 p.m. MT on Altitude2 and Altitude+.