{"id":537603,"date":"2026-03-13T10:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T10:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/537603\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T10:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T10:47:08","slug":"mackinnon-has-4-points-avalanche-cruise-past-kraken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/537603\/","title":{"rendered":"MacKinnon has 4 points, Avalanche cruise past Kraken\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

MacKinnon pushed it to 2-0 at 12:54 when his cross-crease pass intended for Nazem Kadri<\/a>\u00a0went in off the skate of Seattle defenseman Adam Larsson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose [first two] are pretty nice plays from some talented guys,\u201d Bednar said. \u201cThey were seeing some things that they liked, and the execution was really good. There’s a lot of hard work that goes into those shifts before those goals, but I think they get a good start like that, and they’re seeing things and picking it apart a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nicolas Roy<\/a> extended the lead to 3-0 with a power-play goal at 18:48 after Brock Nelson<\/a>\u00a0partially fanned on a shot in the slot. Roy collected the puck at the top of the crease and chipped it into an open net after Daccord moved up in the crease to stop Nelson\u2019s shot.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe kind of hang Joey out to dry a couple times, and I take a bad penalty, and they get one there,\u201d Seattle captain Jordan Eberle<\/a>\u00a0said. \u201cEspecially against a team like that, if you\u2019re not dialed into your details and your protocols, I mean, they\u2019re going to take advantage of you.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Evans got Seattle to within 3-1 with a short-handed goal at 13:36 of the second period. He drove down the slot, took a Chandler Stephenson<\/a> feed from the right circle, and snapped it over\u00a0Wedgewood\u2019s glove.<\/p>\n

Kadri responded with a tip in the slot off Sam Malinski<\/a>\u2019s one-timer from the right point to make it 4-1 at 17:11. It was\u00a0Kadri\u2019s first goal with the Avalanche since he was acquired in a trade with the Calgary Flames before the NHL Trade Deadline last Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s obviously the game within the game to send it into the intermission with them now down another one,\u201d Wedgewood said. \u201cIt\u2019s obviously a tougher obstacle to surpass, and nice for Kadri to get his first back with us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MacKinnon pushed it to 2-0 at 12:54 when his cross-crease pass intended for Nazem Kadri\u00a0went in off the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-537603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537603","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=537603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}