MacKinnon pushes point streak to 15, Avalanche top Sharks

Hertl cut it to 4-1 at 9:01 when he deflected Granlund’s shot from the blue line on a power play.

“There’s areas that we could have done better throughout the whole game, I think,” Sharks defenseman Mario Ferraro said. “It wasn’t our best performance, but I liked our compete and our hard work. It’s unfortunate the way it went, the way it started, but it is what it is and we’ve got to move on and try to improve.”

Johansen extended it to 5-1 at 9:01 of the third period after locating the rebound of Caleb Jones’ point shot and scoring into an open net.

“The second line mix, [the] Johansen line, just has not been where I want it to be,” Bednar said. “I just felt like putting a couple workers with him, like [Andrew] Cogliano, [Logan] O’Connor, that maybe we could get more than that. I thought ‘Jo’ played his best game in a while.”

Hertl made it 5-2 at 10:45 with his second power-play goal, a backhand off his own rebound over the leg of Georgiev.

MacKinnon stole the puck at his own blue line and shot from center ice into an empty net at 15:11 for the 6-2 final.

NOTES: MacKinnon (806) passed Milan Hejduk (805) for the fourth-most points in Avalanche/Quebec Nordiques history. .. Avalanche defenseman Devon Toews had an assist for his 200th NHL point (44 goals, 156 assists). … Georgiev (40-15-4) got his 40th win of 2023, which is the most among all goaltenders. He also passed Patrick Roy (39 in 2000) for the most in a calendar year in Avalanche/Nordiques history.