Brent Burns<\/a> scored early, and Nathan MacKinnon<\/a> and Jack Drury<\/a> added empty-net goals for the Avalanche. Colorado has won eight straight, their longest winning streak since taking nine in a row March 4-24, 2024.<\/p>\n The Avalanche hold the best record in the league and are five points up from the second-place Carolina Hurricanes.<\/p>\n Juuse Saros<\/a> made 23 saves for the Predators, losers of seven of eight. Saturday was the first game back in North America for the Predators after playing a pair of Global Series games last week against the Pittsburgh Penguins<\/a> in Stockholm, Sweden. The Predators have been shutout in consecutive games.<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks The shutout was the first of the season and 15th of Blackwood’s career.<\/p>\n Burns scored the game’s first goal just 15 seconds after the opening faceoff.<\/p>\n After a battle in the right corner, the puck came to Burns above the right circle, where he beat Saros with a wrist shot on the first shot of the game.<\/p>\n The game remained 1-0 until MacKinnon scored an empty-net goal was 1:35 remaining in the third with Saros pulled for an extra attacker. Drury added another empty-netter with 51 seconds left.<\/p>\n MacKinnon has three goals in his last two games.<\/p>\n Colorado defenseman Cale Makar<\/a> failed to record a point in a road game for the first time this season.<\/p>\n The Predators outshot the Avalanche 16-6 in the first, but couldn’t get one past Blackwood.<\/p>\n Saturday was just the fifth time this season that an opponent has outshot the Avalanche. Colorado is 5-0-0 in those games.<\/p>\n Blackwood stopped Nashville’s Michael McCarron<\/a> with 5:47 remaining in the third on a backhand from the low slot to keep the Predators off the board.<\/p>\n Predators captain Roman Josi<\/a> returned to the lineup Saturday after missing 12 games with an upper-body injury<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Associated Press contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nov 22, 2025, 11:41 PM ET NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Mackenzie Blackwood made 35 saves to lead the Colorado…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-303343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/NHL_power_rankings_25_11_21_1x1.jpg&w=130&h=130&scale=crop&location=center.jpeg\"){kind=spacer}
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