{"id":475598,"date":"2024-01-11T06:20:52","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T10:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=475598"},"modified":"2024-01-11T05:30:27","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T09:30:27","slug":"nichushkin-scores-two-for-avs-3-0-win-over-knights","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/nichushkin-scores-two-for-avs-3-0-win-over-knights\/","title":{"rendered":"Nichushkin scores two for Avs\u2019 3-0 win over Knights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valeri Nichushkin netted two power-play goals, extending Nathan MacKinnon&#8217;s remarkable season-opening home points streak to 23 games, as the Colorado Avalanche secured a 3-0 victory over the Vegas Golden Knights on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Alexandar Georgiev recorded his second shutout of the season with 25 saves, while Logan O\u2019Connor contributed a third-period goal, and Mikko Rantanen provided a pair of assists, leading the Avalanche to their sixth win in seven games.<\/p>\n<p>MacKinnon achieved a historic feat, becoming the fourth player in NHL history with a season-opening home points streak of at least 23 games.<\/p>\n<p>Vegas faced a change in goaltending plans as Adin Hill, initially expected to start after recovering from a lower-body injury, was declared unavailable. Jiri Patera stepped in admirably, stopping 32 shots. Despite his efforts, the struggling Golden Knights have now lost seven of their last nine games.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RqaxCd_VXO4?si=3t1oU8H_47ZAvFzr\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valeri Nichushkin netted two power-play goals, extending Nathan MacKinnon&#8217;s remarkable season-opening home points streak to 23 games, as the Colorado Avalanche secured a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":475603,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17553,17212],"news_category":[16709,14084],"gn_keywords":[17893,17982],"acf":{"announce":"The struggling Golden Knights have now lost seven of their last nine games","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/475598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/475598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475605,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/475598\/revisions\/475605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475598"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=475598"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=475598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}