The Avalanche scored seven goals on Thursday while the front office was in the process of adding another offensive piece. In the midst of a 7-3 thrashing against the last-place Sharks, Colorado pulled off a whopper of a trade with the New York Islanders,

Cale Makar uses traffic in front of the net to pad the Avalanche's lead on the Sharks.

The Colorado Avalanche stumbled through a pair of road games against inferior competition to start the post-4 Nations Face-Off stretch run. Now the team has a season-high six-game homestand coming up,

Cale Makar set a career high with six points and the Avs scored on their first three power-play opportunities of the night en route to a 7-3 win Thursday night against the deplete

Necas scored 40 seconds into the second period, and just three seconds after a San Jose penalty. MacKinnon won the faceoff back to Makar, and then Necas blasted a one-timer from him into the net for his fifth goal with the Avs and 21st of the season.

Star defenseman Cale Makar had himself a career performance, racking up two goals and four assists in Colorado’s dominant 7-3 win over San Jose. Makar entered the night with 296

Cale Makar set an Avalanche record for most points in a game by a defenseman with six (two goals, four assists) in the win. Nathan MacKinnon had two goals and three assists. Martin Necas had a goal and an assist, and Mackenzie Blackwood made 32 saves.

Cale Makar produced two goals and four assists for the first six-point game of his career, Nathan MacKinnon scored two goals and added three assists, and the Colorado Avalanche beat the San Jose Sharks 7-3 in Denver on Thursday.