{"id":302968,"date":"2025-11-24T03:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T03:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/302968\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T03:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T03:26:09","slug":"wedgewood-makar-lead-nhl-best-avalanche-to-9th-straight-win-1-0-over-blackhawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/302968\/","title":{"rendered":"Wedgewood, Makar lead NHL-best Avalanche to 9th straight win, 1-0 over Blackhawks"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Scott Wedgewood<\/a> made 22 saves for his first shutout and the Colorado Avalanche<\/a> extended their winning streak to nine games with a 1-0 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks<\/a> on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

Cale Makar<\/a> scored late in the second period for the NHL-leading Avalanche, whose run is the team’s longest since winning nine straight March 4-24, 2024. Colorado improved to 16-1-5 and has points in 13 straight (11-0-2) since its lone regulation loss at Boston on Oct. 25.<\/p>\n

Spencer Knight<\/a> made 25 saves for the Blackhawks, losers of three straight following a six-game (5-0-1) point streak.<\/p>\n

Wedgewood’s ninth career shutout gave the Avalanche two in two nights. Colorado was coming of a 3-0 win at Nashville on Saturday behind Mackenzie Blackwood<\/a>\u2019s 35 saves. <\/p>\n

Wedgewood, a backup during most of his career, leads the NHL with 13 wins and entered with a league-best 2.23 goals-against average.<\/p>\n

Makar leads NHL defensemen with nine goals and with 29 points. Tristen Nielsen<\/a>, skating in his fourth NHL game, set up Makar\u2019s goal for his first point.<\/p>\n

The Blackhawks dominated the scoreless first period, outshooting Colorado 11-2 and testing Wedgewood on several close-in chances. His sharpest save might have been on Ryan Green, who fired a one-timer when he was alone in the crease with 5:42 left. <\/p>\n

The Avalanche pushed back in the second and outshot Chicago 19-1.<\/p>\n

Makar finally connected with 1:39 left in the second on Colorado\u2019s 19th shot of the game, firing in a rebound from the left circle. The goal was set up when Knight\u2019s clearing pass was picked off by Nielsen in the slot, then Nielsen turned and took a first shot from the right circle.<\/p>\n

Chicago pressured late in the third, but Wedgewood made several close-in saves, including a point-blank stop on Frank Nazar<\/a> with 43 seconds left and Knight pulled for an extra attacker.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Avalanche: Host San Jose on Wednesday<\/p>\n

Blackhawks: Host Minnesota on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NHL: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/p>\n

Matt Carlson, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO (AP) \u2014 Scott Wedgewood made 22 saves for his first shutout and the Colorado Avalanche extended their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-302968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}