{"id":689452,"date":"2026-10-18T01:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T01:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/689452\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T01:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T01:33:10","slug":"wtpu-mackinnon-and-lehkonen-have-special-chemistry-in-avalanche-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/689452\/","title":{"rendered":"WTPU: MacKinnon and Lehkonen have &#8216;special&#8217; chemistry in Avalanche win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Avalanche started slowly but improved to defeat the Pittsburgh Penguins in their third game over four days.<\/p>\n<p>Nathan MacKinnon had a four-point night with assists on both Artturi Lehkonen\u2019s goals and one on T.J. Hughes\u2019 first NHL goal.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/milehighsports.com\/wtpu-avalanche-earn-a-point-in-shootout-loss-to-the-stars\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WTPU: Avalanche earn a point in shootout loss to the Stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s special. Their styles are really complementary to one another,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/KvRtkqc_W_4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">head coach Jared Bednar said<\/a>. \u201cIf there\u2019s anyone that knows\u00a0where Nate\u2019s going to be, where he\u2019s going, where he wants the\u00a0puck, when he wants the\u00a0puck, how to\u00a0get a touch on a puck in traffic that gets to the space that Nate\u2019s heading to, it\u2019s Art (Lehkonen). I\u2019ve always felt that way. It\u2019s why I spend so much time with them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Martin Necas earned three points, and Cale Makar added two in the 5-2 victory.<\/p>\n<p>Mackenzie Blackwood had an outstanding game with 29 saves.<\/p>\n<p>Colleen Flynn breaks down all that and more in Mile High Sports\u2019 \u201cWake the Puck Up.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Avalanche started slowly but improved to defeat the Pittsburgh Penguins in their third game over four days.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":689453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5116],"tags":[2320,193,192,144,5277,5,1117,517,4,59451,61083],"class_list":["post-689452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-colorado-avalanche","tag-artturi-lehkonen","tag-avalanche","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-avalanche","tag-coloradoavalanche","tag-hockey","tag-jared-bednar","tag-nathan-mackinnon","tag-nhl","tag-t-j-hughes","tag-wake-the-puck-up"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/117459340728990290","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689452","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=689452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}