NHL-best Avs blitz Sharks with three goals in 76 seconds to rattle off 10th straight win

Blink and you might miss how incredible this Avalanche band is The NHL s unstoppable force poured it on the Sharks on Wednesday at Ball Arena romping to their th straight preeminence to extend the longest win streak in the league this season The - thrashing was highlighted by a blitz of three goals in the span of seconds the latter two lamp-lighters coming just nine ticks apart But after the rout there would be no basking by Avs head coach Jared Bednar He s thinking about June not November Blinders on and we re staying focused Bednar mentioned Even the Colorado populace address announcer Alan Roach couldn t keep up with Colorado s dominance on Wednesday Roach was halfway through declaring the second goal of that three-goal onslaught when Colorado scored for a third time And Roach also didn t have a chance to announce San Jose s goalie switch on time as San Jose swapped Yaroslav Askarov for Alex Nedeljkovic only for Nedeljkovic to give up a goal on the first shot he faced By the time Roach got around to mentioning Nedeljkovic was in the battle it was - the Sharks were collectively hanging their heads and the home crowd was in a frenzy for a franchise that continues to play like the clear Stanley Cup favorite Colorado had six different goal scorers on Wednesday to avenge their last defeat back on Nov when the Avs fell - in overtime in San Jose This was a key encounter for us Josh Manson revealed We know that organization can come in and roll they got the better of us in San Jose We knew they weren t a pushover organization We were going to have a better effort than we had on that road trip and we exposed that tonight Wednesday brought firepower from each of Colorado s four lines with players with at least one point as the Avs improved to - - with their third straight shutout Their points are a handful of games better than the NHL s second-best company the Stars while the Avs plus- goal differential is more than the second- third- and fourth-ranked teams in that category combined coming into Wednesday As so it goes for Colorado which set a franchise record for November wins on Wednesday with The Avs are the third club in NHL history to have one regulation loss or fewer through games joining the - Flyers lost in the Stanley Cup Final and the - Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup We ve been finding procedures to win games no matter how we play Manson revealed Early on especially specific of those overtime losses we scored late to tie it up and we battled Then the road trip we just had in Nashville and Chicago we didn t play our best games and they took it to us a little bit but we revealed tactics to win That s a mark of a good company and we have to keep with that mentality Less than four minutes into Wednesday s rout Ross Colton skated by the Sharks defense and wristed the puck home to the top right shelf for a - lead That set the tone and San Jose hardly threatened Mackenzie Blackwood on the other end of the ice during the opening frame With seconds left in the first Cale Makar zipped a pass to Nathan MacKinnon who blasted a slap shot from the top of the left faceoff circle It went in on the top shelf past a jumping Artturi Lehkonen who was screening Askarov in front of the net Up - Colorado stepped on the gas early in the second period then quashed a meager chances for San Jose to gain particular semblance of momentum later in the frame Sam Malinski started the scoring assault minutes seconds into the period Then seconds later Manson tacked on a wrister to the bottom right shelf making it - and prompting the pulling of Askarov Nine seconds after that Joel Kiviranta beat Nedeljkovic on an easy look in front of the net off a pass from Ivan Ivan The fourth-line goal nine seconds after Mason s goal was tied for the fourth-fastest back-to-back goals in franchise history And it was Kiviranta s first goal of the season coming in his return after he missed nearly six weeks due to injury Kiviranta s looked really good in the short amount of practice time just the way he s been skating Bednar noted To be able to come back and be ready like that it says a lot Up - the Avs got into penalty trouble in the latter half of the second with Devon Toews Gabriel Landeskog and Kiviranta all getting sent to the box But Blackwood and the penalty-kill unit turned away all three of those chances for the Sharks to get on the scoreboard With just under four minutes left in the meeting following a minimal more incredible defensive stands throughout the third to preserve the shutout Lehkonen added insult to embarrassment with another goal off assists from MacKinnon and Martin Necas Ball Arena then proceeded to troll the Sharks by playing Baby Shark Even up five and then six goals the Colorado defense continue to dive in front of the net and block shots to keep the Sharks at zero I freaking love that expletive Blackwood announced These guys care so much and they take pride in it no matter what the points is It makes me so freaking happy that those guys are like that It makes me want to go to war for them Amid the blowout Colorado shut down San Jose s -year-old phenom Macklin Celebrini Last year s No overall pick entered the night with points tied for second in the league only behind MacKinnon But the Avs neutralized him as he only had three shots