{"id":575405,"date":"2026-04-10T06:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/575405\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T06:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:34:07","slug":"avalanche-win-presidents-trophy-for-nhls-best-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/575405\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche win Presidents’ Trophy for NHL’s best record"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apr 10, 2026, 12:08 AM ET<\/p>\n

DENVER — Nathan MacKinnon<\/a> scored his career-high 52nd goal of the season into an empty net and had two assists to help the Colorado Avalanche<\/a> clinch the NHL’s top seed for the postseason with a 3-1 win<\/a> over the Calgary Flames<\/a> on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

It’s the fourth time Colorado has won the Presidents’ Trophy for the best record in hockey. That’s tied with the Boston Bruins<\/a> and New York Rangers<\/a> for the second most behind the Detroit Red Wings<\/a>, who have done it six times, according to ESPN Research.<\/p>\n

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With 114 points and four games left, the Avalanche have a shot to earn 120 in a season for the first time in franchise history. There have been only 12 NHL teams to reach at least 120 points, the most recent being the Bruins in 2022-23 with 135.<\/p>\n

Colorado’s 52 wins this season are tied for the second most in franchise history; the team record is 56, which was set in the 2021-22 season.<\/p>\n

Martin Necas<\/a> and Gabriel Landeskog<\/a> also scored for the Avalanche, who were without forward Nazem Kadri<\/a> (finger) and defenseman Cale Makar<\/a> (upper body). Mackenzie Blackwood<\/a> stopped 28 shots.<\/p>\n

Brent Burns<\/a> had an assist to give him 34 points this season. The 41-year-old Burns ties Nicklas Lidstrom (2011-12) for the second-most points in a season by a blueliner age 40 or older in NHL history.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apr 10, 2026, 12:08 AM ET DENVER — Nathan MacKinnon scored his career-high 52nd goal of the season…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-575405","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}