Avs beat Predators, match season high with 6th straight win

Associated Press

Avs beat Predators, match season high with 6th straight winBy JIM DIAMOND

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Pavel Francouz made 30 saves in a career-best sixth straight win, Erik Johnson had a goal and an assist, and the Colorado Avalanche beat the Nashville Predators 3-2 on Saturday night.

Gabriel Landeskog and Martin Kaut also scored for the Avalanche, who matched a season high with their sixth-straight win.

Colorado also won a franchise-best ninth consecutive road game and recorded its 11th win in February, also a franchise best.

Viktor Arvidsson and Calle Jarnkrok scored for Nashville, which had its three-game winning streak snapped. Juuse Saros finished with 27 saves.

Landeskog scored the game’s first goal at 13:23 of the second period.

From the left corner, Johnson feathered a pass to Landeskog, who drove toward the Predators net, and from the goal line, he lifted a quick wrist shot into the top far corner, just underneath the crossbar. Landeskog has goals in two of his last three games, and a point in four straight.

Kaut doubled the Colorado lead 2:15 later.

Tyson Jost drove down the right side and pulled up at the top of the right circle. There, he found a trailing Kaut with a pass in the slot. Kaut beat Saros with a wrist shot on to glove side.

Arvidsson converted on a breakaway at 14:40 of the third to spoil Francouz’s shutout bid.

Johnson added an empty-net goal in the final minute and Jarnkrok scored with two seconds left to account for the final margin.

NOTES: Jost extended his points streak to three games. … Former Avalanche and Predators forward Peter Forsberg attended the game. … Colorado has not allowed a power-play goal in its last eight games. … Saros had won five of his previous six starts.

UP NEXT:

Avalanche: Visit Detroit Red Wings on Monday.

Predators: Host Edmonton Oilers on Monday.

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