Colorado Avalanche

The Tampa Bay Lightning, Boston Bruins and Colorado Avalanche have advanced to the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs by earning Game 5 victories.

Pavelski made a triumphant return from a gruesome head injury by posting a goal and an assist in the first period that helped send the Sharks to a 3-2 victory over Colorado.

MacKinnon kept up his scoring spree with a second-period goal, Philipp Grubauer stopped 32 shots for his first career playoff shutout and the Avalanche beat San Jose 3-0.

Landeskog scored the first goal and Mikko Rantanen's hustle helped create the tiebreaking tally from Tyson Barrie, sending the Avalanche to a 4-3 victory over San Jose.

Soderberg scored in the sixth round of the shootout, Semyon Varlamov came up with big saves all night long and the Colorado Avalanche beat the Vancouver Canucks 3-2.

Vancouver's Sven Baertschi slap a shot passed the glove hand of Avalanche's Jonathan Bernier in overtime as the Canucks defeated the Colorado 4-3.

(AP) — The Chicago Blackhawks and Washington Capitals are a bit closer to wrapping up division titles and No. 1 seeds in their respective conferences.
The Hawks erupted for four goals in the first period of a 5-1 rout at Pittsburgh...

DENVER (AP) — Sven Baertschi got his second goal of the game with 8:14 left, Markus Granlund also had a goal and the Vancouver Canucks beat the Colorado Avalanche 3-2 on Wednesday night.
Jacob Markstrom stopped 30 shots for the Canucks...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Sven Baertschi scored twice, including the tiebreaking goal on a power play with under four minutes to go, and Ryan Miller made 24 saves for his 350th career victory as the Vancouver Canucks beat the Colorado Avalanche 3-2 on Monday night...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Mikkel Boedker scored twice and the Colorado Avalanche moved back into playoff position with a 3-1 win over the Vancouver Canucks on Wednesday night.
Andreas Martinsen also scored for the Avalanche, who have 76 points — one ahead of idle Minnesota for th…