{"id":389108,"date":"2026-01-05T07:14:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T07:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/389108\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T07:14:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T07:14:23","slug":"florida-holds-off-colorado-2-1-hands-avs-just-3rd-regulation-loss-of-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/389108\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida holds off Colorado 2-1, hands Avs just 3rd regulation loss of season"},"content":{"rendered":"

SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Sam Bennett<\/a> and Aaron Ekblad<\/a> scored unassisted goals, Daniil Tarasov<\/a> made 27 saves and the Florida Panthers<\/a> snapped Colorado\u2019s second 10-game winning streak of the season by topping the Avalanche 2-1 on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

Colorado fell to 31-3-7, its 69 points still the second-most in NHL history through 41 games and the most in nearly a century. Boston had 73 points through 41 games in 1929-30. The NHL added regular-season overtime along the way and changed the points structure in 1999-2000 to add a point for losses past regulation.<\/p>\n

But the Panthers never trailed Sunday. Bennett scored 6:27 into the game, and Ekblad made it 2-1 with 1:48 left in the second period.<\/p>\n

Artturi Lehkonen<\/a> scored midway through the second period for Colorado, which lost captain Gabriel Landeskog<\/a> early in that period with what the team said was an upper-body injury.<\/p>\n

The three regulation losses for Colorado tie the 1979-80 Philadelphia Flyers<\/a> for the fewest through 41 games of any season. The Avalanche had gotten at least one standings point in 30 of their last 31 games coming into Sunday, going 26-1-4 in that stretch.<\/p>\n

It was the third time this season Colorado was held to one goal. The Avs won both of the previous games.<\/p>\n

Scott Wedgewood<\/a> stopped 23 shots for Colorado, his record falling to 18-2-4 on the season.<\/p>\n

The Panthers were further short-handed than usual. U.S. Olympic team defenseman Seth Jones<\/a> (upper body) was out for Florida, and the Panthers expect word Monday on how much time he\u2019ll miss. He was hurt in the first period of Friday\u2019s Winter Classic.<\/p>\n

Florida leaves for a six-game trip Monday and Matthew Tkachuk<\/a> \u2014 who has yet to play this season following August surgery to repair a torn adductor and sports hernia \u2014 will be on the plane. It\u2019s unclear yet if Tkachuk will play during the trip.<\/p>\n

That trip is the start of a second half where Florida plays 26 of its final 41 games on the road.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Avalanche: At Tampa Bay on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Panthers: At Toronto on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

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

Tim Reynolds, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) \u2014 Sam Bennett and Aaron Ekblad scored unassisted goals, Daniil Tarasov made 27 saves and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-389108","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\/389108","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=389108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}