{"id":311867,"date":"2025-11-27T09:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T09:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/311867\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T09:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T09:14:09","slug":"blackwood-makes-26-saves-as-avalanche-defeats-sharks-6-0-records-three-consecutive-shutouts-for-first-time-since-november-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/311867\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackwood Makes 26 Saves as Avalanche Defeats Sharks 6-0, Records Three-Consecutive Shutouts For First Time Since November 2001"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winning Wednesday<\/p>\n<p>Mackenzie Blackwood posted a 26-save shutout as the Avalanche defeated the San Jose Sharks 6-0 at Ball Arena on Wednesday to extend the team&#8217;s win streak to 10 games. Ross Colton, Nathan MacKinnon, Sam Malinski, Josh Manson, Joel Kiviranta and Artturi Lehkonen all scored for Colorado while Martin Necas posted a pair of assists. On special teams, the Avs scored a power-play goal and went 4\/4 on the penalty kill.<\/p>\n<p>With his assist on Lehkonen&#8217;s goal, MacKinnon passed Peter Stastny for the second-most assists in franchise history (669).<\/p>\n<p>This is the second time in franchise history that the Avalanche posted three-consecutive shutouts and the first occurrence since November 14-18, 2001.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everyone [was] ready to go,&#8221; Avalanche Head Coach Jared Bednar said. &#8220;I liked the start to the game. I thought we had good jump. [It] looked like we got our legs back tonight. And everyone [was] involved, including our [defensemen], on the offensive side of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With the win, the Avalanche improved to 17-1-5.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think we&#8217;re playing well,&#8221; Colton said. &#8220;Obviously, we&#8217;re getting amazing goaltending with that tandem back there, so they give us all the confidence in the world to play our game in front of them, which on a nightly basis is awesome.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Winning Wednesday Mackenzie Blackwood posted a 26-save shutout as the Avalanche defeated the San Jose Sharks 6-0 at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-311867","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\/311867","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=311867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}