CHICAGO — The struggling Avalanche got a much-needed lift Friday night on Nathan MacKinnon‘s overtime goal to defeat the Chicago Blackhawks 2-1.
If Blackhawks goalie Corey Crawford was anything less than exceptional, the Avalanche would have snapped its goal-less drought long before it approached a franchise record spanning the bad teams of the Quebec Nordiques, before they relocated to Colorado in 1995.
Rookie Mikko Rantanen finally got a puck past the Chicago Blackhawks’ goalie early in the third period to forge a 1-1 tie at the United Center. The Avs took that momentum to get the overtime win that snapped a five-game losing streak.