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Lehkonen made it 4-1 at 13:57 after his snap shot from the left circle caromed in five-hole off the left leg of Erik Cernak<\/a>. MacKinnon took the puck around the net and found Lehkonen in the circle to set up the sequence.<\/p>\n

\u201cFun to watch. I see that in practice, how they can be creative and make plays that you didn’t expect,\u201d Blackwood said. \u201cBut when you see it in the game, and they’re doing it at the highest level, it’s pretty special. It’s cool.\u201d<\/p>\n

Guentzel cut it to 4-2 at 19:17 just after the conclusion of a power play. He finished Point\u2019s backhand pass from the slot at the right post. Colorado challenged the play for a missed stoppage, but video review upheld the initial call.<\/p>\n

MacKinnon extended it to 5-2 at 4:18 of the third period when his wrist shot beat Vasilevskiy\u2019s blocker short side from just inside the left dot. Lehkonen sprung MacKinnon in the neutral zone and he used his speed to create space.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe’s very underrated. He’s always in a good spot,\u201d Necas said of Lehkonen. \u201cHe creates so much space out there for me and (MacKinnon) to play a little bit around. Feels like every time he gets the puck, it’s a chance. He’s a great player. He plays great defense. You don’t really find players like him.\u201d<\/p>\n

D\u2019Astous made it 5-3 at 15:13 with a snap shot from the high slot that beat the blocker of Blackwood.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a fast and skilled team, and when we do a lot of turnovers, like we did, it’s not very good,\u201d said D\u2019Astous. “I think our start was not good enough. Definitely not good enough. It was pretty bad, like down 2-0 against that team, it’s hard to come back.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s hard to play hockey when we’re behind right away at the beginning, especially against that team. I think we’re way better than that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Necas scored into an empty net at 17:19 for the 6-3 final.<\/p>\n

NOTES: MacKinnon recorded his 45th career three-assist game, tying Joe Sakic<\/a> for third in Avalanche\/Quebec Nordiques history. Only Peter Stastny<\/a> (47) and Peter Forsberg<\/a> (46) have more. \u2026 Lehkonen extended his point streak to six games (six goals, three assists). \u2026 Colorado forward Logan O’Connor<\/a>\u00a0had three shots on goal in 14:47 of ice time in his season debut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lehkonen made it 4-1 at 13:57 after his snap shot from the left circle caromed in five-hole off…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":892865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-892864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892864","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=892864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/892865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}