Valeri Nichushkin scored the eventual game-winner early in the second period, Nathan MacKinnon had an assist to add to his NHL-leading points total and the Colorado Avalanche hung on for a 3-2 win over the Philadelphia Flyers on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Brent Burns and Brock Nelson also scored for Colorado, which improved to 21-2-6 with a league-leading 48 points. The Avalanche were playing their third game in four days while Philadelphia had the last three days off.<\/p>\n
Sean Couturier and Travis Konecny had the goals for Philadelphia, which lost for just the third time in the last nine games. The Flyers were playing the third contest of a season-long, six-game homestand.<\/p>\n
Burns netted the first of three straight Avalanche goals on a wrist shot midway through the first period. Nelson put Colorado ahead 2-1 with 52 seconds remaining in the period when he scored on a power play on a scrum in front. MacKinnon originally was credited with the goal before being awarded the primary assist. He now has 49 points.<\/p>\n
Nichushkin finished a 2-on-1 by beating Samuel Ersson on the blocker side on a wrist shot from the circle to make it 3-1 with 18:13 to play in the second. Ersson made 25 saves.<\/p>\n
Konecny pulled Philadelphia within a goal four minutes later when he scored from close range. Philadelphia had a chance to tie it in the third period, but Trevor Zegras missed a penalty shot 4:54 into the period when he shot into Mackenzie Blackwood’s pads.<\/p>\n
The Flyers pressured the Avalanche, who were coming off Saturday’s 3-2 overtime win at the Rangers, in the third period but couldn’t connect.<\/p>\n
Couturier, playing in his 900th career game, put Philadelphia up 1-0 two minutes into the contest when he deflected Noah Juulsen’s slap shot past Blackwood.<\/p>\n
Blackwood had 24 saves.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Avalanche: At Nashville on Tuesday to end four-game road trip.<\/p>\n
Flyers: Host San Jose on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Valeri Nichushkin scored the eventual game-winner early in the second period, Nathan MacKinnon had an assist to add…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4843,69,4845,71,70,726],"class_list":{"0":"post-54728","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-philadelphia","10":"tag-philadelphia-flyers","11":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","12":"tag-philadelphia-news","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}