{"id":164923,"date":"2026-02-05T09:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T09:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/164923\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T09:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T09:02:15","slug":"lehkonen-scores-twice-avalanche-recover-to-defeat-sharks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/164923\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehkonen scores twice, Avalanche recover to defeat Sharks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liljegren cut the deficit to 2-1 just 43 seconds into the third period when his one-timer deflected off the stick of Avalanche forward Parker Kelly<\/a> in the right circle and bounced off the ice and in. It was Liljegren’s first goal of the season.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the message was pretty clear, ‘Let’s just go play and stop worrying about mistakes,'” Warsofsky said. “And we’re a good hockey team. We got to get our confidence back. And, obviously, get a couple goals, and that helps. We got going and, unfortunately, those are the ones you’d like to get a point in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kurashev tied it 2-2 at 3:34. He knocked the puck away from Colorado defenseman Samuel Girard<\/a> at the San Jose blue line, skated down the left side on a 2-on-1 and beat Blackwood with a wrist shot to the short side.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think first two [periods] weren\u2019t that good. I think we weren’t playing with too much confidence,\u201d Kurashev said. \u201cSo I think going into the third, we just wanted to go and play our game and play with confidence. And, yeah, I think it was, for sure, our best period, but obviously not enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nelson scored an empty-net goal at 18:43 for the 4-2 final.<\/p>\n

Forward Kiefer Sherwood<\/a> had one shot on goal in 17:39 of ice time in his Sharks debut. He was acquired in a trade with the Vancouver Canucks on Jan. 19 and had been out since Jan. 10 because of an undisclosed injury.<\/p>\n

NOTES: MacKinnon (925 games) became the third-fastest active player to record 700 career assists, behind only Connor McDavid<\/a> (699 games) and Sidney Crosby<\/a> (856 games). He also became the ninth active player to record 700 career assists. \u2026 MacKinnon recorded his 170th career multiassist game and moved within three of tying Peter Stastny<\/a> (173) for the second-most in franchise history, behind Joe Sakic<\/a> (232). \u2026 Makar played his 450th game and assisted on the opening goal. His 354 career assists through 450 games are the fourth-most in NHL history by a defenseman, behind Bobby Orr<\/a> (415), Paul Coffey<\/a> (381) and Quinn Hughes<\/a> (369).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liljegren cut the deficit to 2-1 just 43 seconds into the third period when his one-timer deflected off…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-164923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}