Saturday Round-Up: Cats, Bolts Both Lose At Home
Photo: Colorado Avalanche
SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Jonathan Drouin got his first two goals of the season, Mikko Rantanen had a goal and three assists and Colorado beat slumping Florida.
Drouin was playing for only the fifth time this season. He missed 16 games with an upper-body injury.
Valeri Nichushkin had a goal and two assists for Colorado, which got a four-goal second period — with scores from Drouin, Rantanen, Logan O’Connor and Samuel Girard. Oliver Kylington also scored for the Avalanche, who improved to 3-0-0 on their four-game road trip.
Cale Makar and Devon Toews had two assists apiece for Colorado.
Sam Reinhart, Aleksander Barkov, Carter Verhaeghe and Anton Lundell scored for Florida, which has dropped five of its last six games. Matthew Tkachuk and Mackie Samoskevich each had two assists for the Panthers.
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Matt Duchene and Roope Hintz scored in the third period, and Dallas beat Tampa Bay.
Jake Oettinger stopped 27 shots while improving to 11-3 on the season.
Anthony Cirelli scored twice for Tampa Bay, which had a five-game point streak. Andrei Vasilevskiy made 24 saves.
The Lightning had leads of 1-0 and 2-1 in the first period but Dallas answered both times on goals from Evgenii Dadonov and Miro Heiskanen.
It was 2-2 before Duchene and Hintz scored 58 seconds apart in the third.
