{"id":203486,"date":"2026-03-04T06:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T06:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/203486\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T06:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T06:34:09","slug":"makars-3-points-spark-avalanche-who-cruise-to-cool-off-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/203486\/","title":{"rendered":"Makar\u2019s 3 points spark Avalanche, who cruise to cool off Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parker Kelly scored twice, Martin Necas had a goal, and Brock Nelson and Jack Drury each had two assists for the Avalanche (41-10-9), who have won three in a row and five of six, including a 4-2 victory at the Los Angeles Kings on Monday. Scott Wedgewood made 27 saves.<\/p>\n<p>Cutter Gauthier scored, and Lukas Dostal made 21 saves for the Ducks (33-24-3), who had won five straight and 12 of their past 14 (12-2-0), including eight in a row at Honda Center.<\/p>\n<p>Makar gave the Avalanche a 1-0 lead at 11:33 of the first period. He came out from behind the Anaheim net to retrieve a loose puck and skated through the left circle before scoring with a wrist shot from the hash marks.<\/p>\n<p>Necas scored on Colorado\u2019s first power play to extend it to 2-0 at 14:05 with a one-timer from the top of the left circle, his fifth goal in the past five games.<\/p>\n<p>Gauthier cut it to 2-1 at 4:50 of the second period on a one-timer from the right circle off a feed from Jackson LaCombe. It was the third goal in the past two games for Gauthier, who leads Anaheim this season with 29.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly put the Avalanche ahead 3-1 at 15:03 on a wrist shot from just above the left circle.<\/p>\n<p>Gabriel Landeskog scored for the second straight game to push it to 4-1 at 4:35 of the third period, a one-timer off a feed from Nathan MacKinnon.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly made it 5-1 at 10:05, scoring with a one-timer from the left circle after catching Dostal out of the crease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Parker Kelly scored twice, Martin Necas had a goal, and Brock Nelson and Jack Drury each had two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":{"0":"post-203486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-headlines","10":"tag-anaheim-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203486","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=203486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}