Nathan MacKinnon's first-period assist on Gabriel Landeskog's power-play goal Tuesday night was his 21st career multipoint playoff period, breaking Joe Sakic's Avalanche record. [1] The third-period power-play goal that followed gave him his third straight three-point playoff game, tying Sakic's 1997 club record. [2]

The paper's May 6 brief on Colorado's Game Two win and the Wild's goalie carousel read the night as the multipoint record. Denver Sports' subsequent reconstruction reveals the night was actually a double: one record passed, another tied. [3]

Colorado is 6-0 in the playoffs, the first Avalanche team to win five-or-more in three straight postseason games for the fifth time in franchise history. [1] Filip Gustavsson — the Wild's third starter in two games after Wallstedt's eight-goal Game One — stopped 18 of 23. [2] Game Three is Saturday in St. Paul.

The structural read remains the goalie cycle. Minnesota has now used three netminders to face an Avalanche team that has scored 14 goals in two games. The cycle is what concedes records like MacKinnon's, because every period is a multipoint candidate when the team in net keeps changing.

The Sakic comparisons will accumulate from here. MacKinnon now passes Peter Forsberg on the franchise playoff goals list at 59, sitting tied with Sidney Crosby for 15th-most three-point games in NHL postseason history. [3]

-- AMARA OKONKWO, Lagos