O'Connor, Colton score quick goals to live Avs past Senators, 5-4

DENVER -- Logan O’Connor and Ross Colton scored 1:32 isolated successful a high-scoring 3rd period, and nan Colorado Avalanche hit nan Ottawa Senators 5-4 connected Sunday nighttime for their 5th consecutive win.

Nikolai Kovalenko scored his first NHL extremity for Colorado, which had to past a furious rally from Ottawa to get its 2nd triumph astatine home. Josh Manson scored his first extremity of nan play for nan Avalanche, who person bounced backmost from an 0-4-0 commencement to nan season.

The Senators trailed 2-0 erstwhile Brady Tkachuk and Nick Cousins scored 2:08 isolated midway done nan third. O’Connor and Colton answered to reconstruct nan two-goal lead but Claude Giroux answered astatine 16:48.

Ottawa pulled Anton Forsberg for an other skater and Nathan MacKinnon scored into an quiet nett astatine 18:45. Giroux’s 2nd of nan nighttime made it a one-goal crippled successful nan last 13 seconds.

Senators: Ottawa has been capable to people goals but not win. The Senators astir rallied from 3 down Friday nighttime successful Dallas and couldn’t decorativeness a comeback Sunday night.

Avalanche: Goalie Justus Annunen has been successful nett for Colorado's past 4 wins and has seemingly taken complete nan No. 1 spot from struggling Alexandar Georgiev. Annunen made 26 saves

The Senators played philharmonic goaltenders early successful nan 2nd period. Forsberg went to nan chair pinch an instrumentality problem that wasn’t quickly resolved, truthful Linus Ullmark came in. Forsberg returned astatine nan adjacent stoppage but near little than 2 minutes later. He returned midway done nan period.

MacKinnon has a constituent successful each 9 games to commencement nan play for nan 2nd clip successful his career. He besides did it successful nan 2017-18 season.

The Senators return location to play St. Louis connected Tuesday nighttime while nan Avalanche big Chicago connected Monday night.

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