DENVER — Nathan MacKinnon’s 35-game house factors streak ended Thursday in a 3-2 shootout loss to the New York Rangers at Ball Enviornment.
MacKinnon, who has 29 targets and 77 factors at house this season, completed with the second-longest house factors streak in NHL historical past behind Wayne Gretzky, who set the mark at 40 video games in the course of the 1988-89 season. Additionally ending was MacKinnon’s 19-game factors streak, which was his second such streak of the season. It was additionally the primary time in NHL historical past that one participant had two 19-game level streaks in a season.
Avalanche coach Jared Bednar mentioned after the sport that the staff would take a look at offering proof to the NHL that MacKinnon ought to have been credited with an help that tied the rating at 2-2 with 7:13 left in regulation.
The Avalanche have been within the Rangers’ zone when MacKinnon delivered a move to Devon Toews for a one-timer from the purpose. It initially appeared that Toews’ shot was stopped by Rangers goaltender Igor Shesterkin with Jonathan Drouin amassing the rebound and scoring the game-tying purpose.
The purpose was deemed an personal purpose that was credited to Toews, with one other angle of the purpose revealing Rangers defenseman Ryan Lindgren appeared to have been the final one that touched the puck earlier than it went within the internet.
“There’s a course of,” Bednar mentioned. “You possibly can take a look at it in case you have video proof that there is an help, and he would get one.”
When requested if the staff would undergo that course of, Bednar mentioned, “Yeah, we are able to take a look at it.”
Avs defenseman Cale Makar mentioned he was shocked to study MacKinnon was not credited with an help on the game-tying purpose.
“It is one sport,” Makar mentioned. “I believe it is not like he took the night time off. I really feel like he was discovering methods to generate and stuff like that. Simply generally, these bounces do not go your manner.”
MacKinnon, who didn’t meet with the media after the sport, completed with 5 photographs whereas logging 27:53 in ice time over 30 shifts.
4 of MacKinnon’s shifts got here in extra time. Whereas it has turn into frequent for MacKinnon for use in extra time, Bednar was requested if there was some motivation to get MacKinnon further ice time to increase the shift.
“I do not take into consideration the streak whereas we’re taking part in,” Bednar mentioned. “However actually, we have been making an attempt to maintain it going. As a gaggle, I believe everybody’s excited for it. In extra time, normally with Nate, he is going till he tells me he wants a breather or if I am studying it, he wants a breather. … He is our most harmful man, proper? Out of the ahead group particularly. I like to maneuver him round with a pair totally different guys.”