SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Mikko Rantanen scored twice and had two assists as the Colorado Avalanche beat the San Jose Sharks 4-0 on Wednesday night.
Philipp Grubauer made 26 saves for his 14th profession shutout, serving to the Avalanche accumulate payback for a 6-2 loss Monday night in San Jose.
Gabriel Landeskog added a aim and three assists for Colorado, which went 3-1 on its boulevard day out and pulled into a three-manner tie for third verbalize within the West Division with Minnesota.
“Obviously we weren’t chuffed with the fashion we conducted game one (Monday), and we wished to approach assist assist and genuinely feel tackle we responded and conducted our simplest game,” Landeskog talked about.
Martin Jones stopped 34 shots for San Jose and was particularly titillating within the predominant two classes, giving up ideal one aim. However the Sharks maintain been outshot 38-26 and obtained bottled up after they’d scored six targets in assist-to-assist games.
“Within the event you play a team that’s so unsafe there, you’ve obtained to construct up them out of our ‘D’ zone and accumulate them into their ‘D’ zone, and I don’t mediate we did it enough,” Sharks defenseman Brent Burns talked about.
Rantanen snapped a scoreless tie with 5: 36 left within the 2nd length, when he took a pass from Nathan MacKinnon and whipped a one-timer past Jones ideal within the exact submit.
Samuel Girard gave Colorado respiratory room roughly six minutes into the third, firing a slap shot that beat Jones to the glove aspect and made it 2-0.
The sport obtained ghastly eight minutes into the third, when San Jose’s Joachim Blichfeld was given a match penalty after a take a look at to the head on MacKinnon. Landeskog took profit with a energy-play aim presently later on, and it’s that you just might be ready to imagine Blichfeld will receive a suspension.
“I’m hoping the league takes a search at it and affords some penalty for that,” Rantanen talked about.
Rantanen added his team-leading 10th aim to manufacture it 4-0.
ROAD TO RECOVERY
Sharks center Tomas Hertl has experienced symptoms since being sidelined with COVID-19, nonetheless coach Bob Boughner told newshounds Hertl looks to be doing greater. Hertl went on the COVID-19 checklist Feb. 24, and the earliest he might perhaps return is March 12 at Anaheim.
SHORT-HANDED ‘D’
Colorado conducted with out defensemen Cale Makar and Bo Byram, who every missed their 2nd consecutive game with an upper-body damage. Makar is the extra possible of the two to perchance return Friday in opposition to Anaheim.
HEATING UP
After going 10 games in a row with out a aim, Landeskog has targets in three consecutive games.
“You delivery going 5, six games and it will get a shrimp bit psychological,” he talked about. “ It was ideal good to complete that saunter and build of turn the internet page.”
UP NEXT
Avalanche: Host the Anaheim Ducks on Friday to delivery out a 9-game homestand.
Sharks: Host the Vegas Golden Knights on Friday, the sixth game of an eight-game homestand.
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