{"id":184376,"date":"2025-09-08T00:24:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T00:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/184376\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T00:24:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T00:24:00","slug":"sherwood-and-joshua-help-canucks-win-4-1-in-avalanches-last-regular-season-home-game-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/184376\/","title":{"rendered":"Sherwood and Joshua help Canucks win 4-1 in Avalanche&#8217;s last regular-season home game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DENVER (AP) \u2014 Kiefer Sherwood and Dakota Joshua had a goal and an assist, Kevin Lankinen stopped 31 shots and the Vancouver Canucks beat Colorado 4-1 on Thursday night as the Avalanche gave leading scorer Nathan MacKinnon the game off to rest and heal for the postseason.<\/p>\n<p>Jake DeBrusk also scored for the Canucks, who\u2019ve been eliminated from postseason contention. Nils Hoglander added an empty-net goal with 1:58 remaining.<\/p>\n<p>Devon Toews had a goal and Mackenzie Blackwood made 26 saves for the Avalanche in their final home game of the regular season. Colorado will enter the postseason as the Central Division\u2019s No. 3 seed and open a first-round series on the road.<\/p>\n<p>By sitting out, MacKinnon\u2019s streak of 209 straight games was halted. He might not play in the final two regular-season games, either. MacKinnon is tied with Tampa Bay\u2019s Nikita Kucherov for the league lead with 116 points.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado captain Gabriel Landeskog began a minor league conditioning assignment with the Colorado Eagles and could suit up with the Eagles this weekend. <\/p>\n<p>Landeskog could be activated for Game 1 of Colorado\u2019s playoff series if the conditioning assignment and additional practices go well. A knee injury and subsequent surgeries have sidelined Landeskog since he helped the Avalanche win the Stanley Cup in 2022. <\/p>\n<p>Takeaways<\/p>\n<p>Canucks: Finished 3-0 against Colorado to sweep the season series for the first time since 2016-17.<\/p>\n<p>Colorado: The short-handed Avalanche were without defensemen Ryan Lindgren (upper body) and Josh Manson (upper body), along with forwards Jonathan Drouin (upper body) and Ross Colton (lower body).<\/p>\n<p>Key moment<\/p>\n<p>Joshua knocked in a loose puck with 13:46 remaining to make it a 3-1 game.<\/p>\n<p>Key stat<\/p>\n<p>Colorado\u2019s defensemen have a combined 206 points this season.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Colorado wraps up the regular season with a back-to-back starting Saturday in Los Angeles. Vancouver hosts Minnesota on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NHL: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nhl<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER (AP) \u2014 Kiefer Sherwood and Dakota Joshua had a goal and an assist, Kevin Lankinen stopped 31&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5128],"tags":[894,1281,144,8080,1543,7,5,7747,1037,1544,1538,6386,1123,517,4,292,1335,8452,1351,3191,43,14,104,893,27,5313],"class_list":{"0":"post-184376","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vancouver-canucks","8":"tag-canucks","9":"tag-co-state-wire","10":"tag-colorado-avalanche","11":"tag-dakota-joshua","12":"tag-devon-toews","13":"tag-gabriel-landeskog","14":"tag-hockey","15":"tag-jake-debrusk","16":"tag-jonathan-drouin","17":"tag-josh-manson","18":"tag-kevin-lankinen","19":"tag-kiefer-sherwood","20":"tag-mackenzie-blackwood","21":"tag-nathan-mackinnon","22":"tag-nhl","23":"tag-nhl-hockey","24":"tag-nikita-kucherov","25":"tag-nils-hoglander","26":"tag-ross-colton","27":"tag-ryan-lindgren","28":"tag-sports","29":"tag-stanley-cup","30":"tag-stanley-cup-playoffs","31":"tag-vancouver","32":"tag-vancouver-canucks","33":"tag-vancouvercanucks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115165833863734975","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}