DENVER (AP) \u2014 Nathan MacKinnon scored his NHL-leading 26th goal and added an assist, and the Colorado Avalanche beat the Nashville Predators 4-2 on Saturday night for their 11th straight home win.<\/p>\n
MacKinnon, who has scored in six straight home games, leads the league with 55 points.<\/p>\n
Jack Drury, Victor Olofsson and Valeri Nichushkin also scored for Colorado, which is 13-0-2 on home ice this season. The 11 straight wins matches the second-longest in franchise history, previously accomplished Jan. 31-March 27 of last season.<\/p>\n
The longest home winning streak is 18 games set during the 2021-22 Stanley Cup season.<\/p>\n
The Avalanche\u2019s 53 points through 32 games is tied for third all-time and they have just two regulation losses this season. They have earned at least a point in 23 of their last 24 games.<\/p>\n
Jonathan Marchessault and Tyson Jost scored for Nashville and Justus Annunen stopped 38 shots against the team that traded him to the Predators at the start of the 2024-25 season. Nashville had won six of its last eight games, including a 4-3 shootout win over Colorado on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
Scott Wedgewood, the player the Avalanche got in exchange for Annunen, made 27 saves and tied Dallas\u2019 Jake Oettinger for the most wins with 14.<\/p>\n
MacKinnon put the Avalanche ahead 1:27 after the opening faceoff, the ninth time this season they have scored in the first 1:30. Drury\u2019s fifth off the season, which deflected off defenseman Nicolas Hague\u2019s knee, made it 2-0 at 11:47.<\/p>\n
Marchessault cut the lead in half with a power-play goal 50 seconds later.<\/p>\n
The Predators carried the play to start the second period but Colorado go the only goal when Olofsson scored on a delayed penalty at 9:57.<\/p>\n
Nichushkin scored an empty-net goal with 3:31 remaining in the third.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Predators: At St. Louis on Monday night.<\/p>\n
Avalanche: at Seattle on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
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