{"id":682335,"date":"2026-10-09T05:21:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T05:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/682335\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T05:21:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T05:21:27","slug":"makar-has-2-goals-and-an-assist-in-the-avs-7-3-victory-over-the-winless-flames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/682335\/","title":{"rendered":"Makar has 2 goals and an assist in the Avs&#8217; 7-3 victory over the winless Flames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CALGARY, Alberta (AP) \u2014 Cale Makar had two goals and an assist, Devon Toews and Jaden Schwartz also each scored twice and the Colorado Avalanche beat the winless Calgary Flames 7-3 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Nathan MacKinnon scored and had two assists as Colorado (3-1-0) bounced back from a 3-2 loss in Winnipeg on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Wedgewood, making his season debut, had 26 saves to win in his 200th career NHL game.<\/p>\n<p>Adam Klapka, Mikael Backlund and Kevin Bahl scored for Calgary (0-4-0), the only NHL team yet to record a point this season. The Flames have been outscored 23-6 for a league-worst minus-17 goal differential.<\/p>\n<p>Flames goalie Devin Cooley made 23 stops.<\/p>\n<p>Tied 1-1 after the first period, Colorado scored three times in less than five minutes in the second. The Avalanche tacked on two more goals early in the third period.<\/p>\n<p>Avalanche: Host Toronto on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Flames: Host Anaheim on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>See AP\u2019s full NHL coverage here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CALGARY, Alberta (AP) \u2014 Cale Makar had two goals and an assist, Devon Toews and Jaden Schwartz also&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[4508,73332,1116,895,26,5294,6864,1543,896,5,8054,2338,1740,517,4,10617,3494,3492,47087,10616,61504,2565],"class_list":["post-682335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary-flames","tag-adam-klapka","tag-avalanche-flames-score","tag-cale-makar","tag-calgary","tag-calgary-flames","tag-calgaryflames","tag-devin-cooley","tag-devon-toews","tag-flames","tag-hockey","tag-jaden-schwartz","tag-kevin-bahl","tag-mikael-backlund","tag-nathan-mackinnon","tag-nhl","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32550-ap-online-hockey-game-stories","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40777-ap-colorado-sports-only","tag-scott-wedgewood"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682335","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=682335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}