Colorado Avalanche vs San Jose Sharks

Regular season · Thursday, April 6, 2023 · SAP Center at San Jose

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6–2

Final

SOG 31–23

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Game summary

The Colorado Avalanche beat the San Jose Sharks 6-2 on Thursday, April 6, 2023 at SAP Center at San Jose. The Avalanche outshot the Sharks 31-23.

Mikko Rantanen scored a hat trick and Ben Meyers scored twice. Erik Karlsson, Nathan MacKinnon and Steven Lorentz also scored.

Alexandar Georgiev made 21 saves on 23 shots for the win; Kaapo Kahkonen stopped 15 of 19.

Goals	1st	2nd	3rd	T	SOG
COL	1	4	1	6	31
SJS	1	1	0	2	23

Three stars

Scoring

1st period

Erik Karlsson (23)Kevin Labanc (18), Jacob Peterson (4)0–115:43 SJS
Mikko Rantanen (50)Nathan MacKinnon (65), Samuel Girard (28)1–116:45 COL

2nd period

Mikko Rantanen (51)Evan Rodrigues (21), Nathan MacKinnon (66)2–102:32 COL
Nathan MacKinnon (37)Samuel Girard (29), Mikko Rantanen (46)3–107:19 COL
Mikko Rantanen (52)Nathan MacKinnon (67), Devon Toews (37)4–108:06 COL
Steven Lorentz (9)Erik Karlsson (75), Jacob MacDonald (7)4–208:41 SJS
Ben Meyers (2)Matt Nieto (11)5–215:08 COL

3rd period

Ben Meyers (3)Alex Newhook (15), Matt Nieto (12)6–203:12 COL

Team stats

COLSJS

31Shots on goal23

48%Faceoff %52%

0/1Power play0/1

2Penalty minutes2

16Hits30

18Blocked shots15

9Giveaways13

5Takeaways12

Penalties

2nd 02:54Tomas Hertl · tripping2 min
2nd 09:08Lars Eller · hooking2 min

Season series

Colorado Avalanche

Colorado Avalanche skaters

29Nathan MacKinnonC	1	3	4	+4	3	1	3	0	35	18:40
96Mikko RantanenR	3	1	4	+5	6	2	0	0	50	17:51
59Ben MeyersC	2	0	2	+2	3	1	0	0	–	10:31
83Matt NietoL	0	2	2	+1	4	0	1	0	–	12:11
49Samuel GirardD	0	2	2	+5	1	0	3	0	–	21:32
9Evan RodriguesC	0	1	1	+4	0	0	0	0	–	18:18
18Alex NewhookC	0	1	1	+1	1	0	1	0	63	11:58
7Devon ToewsD	0	1	1	+5	1	0	1	0	–	22:15
11Andrew CoglianoC	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	0	–	12:22
13Valeri NichushkinR	0	0	0	-2	2	1	0	0	–	18:27
20Lars EllerC	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	44	12:55
25Logan O'ConnorR	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	–	13:21
37J.T. CompherL	0	0	0	-2	2	0	0	0	64	18:45
81Denis MalginC	0	0	0	-1	2	1	1	0	–	14:38
3Jack JohnsonD	0	0	0	+1	1	1	1	0	–	20:15
4Bowen ByramD	0	0	0	-1	0	2	2	0	–	23:25
6Erik JohnsonD	0	0	0	-1	3	3	2	0	–	16:38
56Kurtis MacDermidD	0	0	0	-1	0	2	1	0	–	13:58

Colorado Avalanche goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	TOI
31Jonas JohanssonG		0	0	0	–	00:00
40Alexandar GeorgievG	W	23	21	2	.913	60:00

San Jose Sharks

San Jose Sharks skaters

65Erik KarlssonD	1	1	2	-1	2	1	1	0	–	23:56
16Steven LorentzC	1	0	1	0	4	5	1	0	60	13:43
24Jacob PetersonC	0	1	1	-3	0	2	0	0	–	19:15
62Kevin LabancR	0	1	1	-3	3	2	0	0	–	18:48
9Jacob MacDonaldD	0	1	1	+1	3	0	1	0	–	14:16
7Nico SturmC	0	0	0	-1	1	0	0	0	60	13:37
10Evgeny SvechnikovL	0	0	0	-1	1	2	0	0	–	10:34
17Thomas BordeleauC	0	0	0	-1	0	0	0	0	–	16:04
20Fabian ZetterlundL	0	0	0	-1	2	2	1	0	–	12:31
39Logan CoutureC	0	0	0	-1	3	0	2	0	42	15:56
48Tomas HertlC	0	0	0	-2	1	1	2	2	52	18:38
57Adam RaskaR	0	0	0	+1	0	5	0	0	–	12:13
73Noah GregorC	0	0	0	-1	0	4	0	0	–	14:30
3Henry ThrunD	0	0	0	-1	3	0	0	0	–	19:04
5Matt BenningD	0	0	0	-2	0	1	0	0	–	20:08
38Mario FerraroD	0	0	0	-2	0	1	1	0	–	21:02
44Marc-Edouard VlasicD	0	0	0	-1	0	0	2	0	–	18:00
51Radim SimekD	0	0	0	-1	0	4	4	0	–	15:45

San Jose Sharks goalies
Goalie	DEC	SA	SV	GA	SV%	TOI
36Kaapo KahkonenG	L	19	15	4	.789	28:06
47James ReimerG		12	10	2	.833	31:54