Nathan MacK­in­non had his most pro­duc­tive night of the sea­son to pull the Col­orado Avalanche out of a funk, but the club’s extra­or­di­nary injury cri­sis may have some­how reached a new level.

MacK­in­non had his first five-point game of the sea­son Tues­day night and the Avs dom­i­nat­ed the Seat­tle Krak­en at Ball Are­na in a 6–3 vic­to­ry where the score­line flat­tered the vis­i­tors. While the win snapped a three-game los­ing skid, Cale Makar was injured dur­ing the sec­ond peri­od and played only one brief shift in the third.

Makar was injured dur­ing a pow­er play mid­way through the sec­ond peri­od. He did not play in the final 10:08 of the sec­ond peri­od, then took one 29-sec­ond shift in the open­ing two min­utes of the third peri­od. He stayed on the bench through the first media time­out, then test­ed the injury again dur­ing the break before head­ing to the lock­er room.

MacK­in­non, who set a career high with five assists, had a hand in both of Colorado’s first-peri­od goals, but both came away from his line­mates. After Chris Wag­n­er cre­at­ed some chaos in his first shift of the game, MacK­in­non put the puck around Eeli Tolva­nen near the offen­sive blue line to cre­ate some open space and then found Wag­n­er with a cross-ice pass for a shot from the right cir­cle and his first goal of the sea­son at 2:28.

After the Krak­en lev­eled the score at 12:58, rook­ie Ivan Ivan scored his third goal of the sea­son to put Col­orado back in front 74 sec­onds lat­er. Ivan sent a pass to fel­low first-year for­ward Niko­lai Kovalenko, who took the puck to the net for a back­hand­ed chance. Ivan was there to clean up the rebound, and he’s now sec­ond among all rook­ies in goals behind Philadelphia’s Matvei Michkov.

One year after MacKinnon’s con­sis­ten­cy and mul­ti­ple long-point streaks were part of his MVP-win­ning resume, MacK­in­non also has a point in all 13 games this season.

Seat­tle scored 23 sec­onds into the sec­ond peri­od after a turnover by Logan O’Connor on his own end. At that point, the Krak­en had two goals on six shots — and only three scor­ing chances, accord­ing to Nat­ur­al Stat Trick.

The Avalanche pow­er play has been great all sea­son, and it struck twice to help Col­orado regain control.

MacK­in­non set up Art­turi Lehko­nen in the bumper spot for a one-timer to make it 3–2 at 6:44 of the sec­ond. Lehko­nen is the third play­er this sea­son to score a pow­er-play goal in that spot, on a pass from MacK­in­non. All three — includ­ing Ross Colton and Ivan — have been in that spot as a replace­ment for Jonathan Drouin, who hasn’t played since the sea­son opener.

Mikko Ranta­nen scored the sec­ond one at 9:11 on a one-timer from Makar, with MacK­in­non pro­vid­ing the sec­ondary assist. The play was reviewed for off­sides and the goal was waved off because Lehko­nen had crossed the blue line before the puck.

Then, after a sec­ond review, the offi­cials waved off the off­sides because the puck entered the zone after Seattle’s Yan­ni Gourde shot it wide at the oth­er end — there­fore play­ing Lehko­nen onsides. It was Rantanen’s fifth goal of the sea­son, but first in nine games and only his sec­ond since a hat trick on open­ing night in Las Vegas.

Ranta­nen added his sixth goal, an emp­ty-net­ter, with 2:05 left, just 24 sec­onds after the Krak­en had cut Colorado’s lead to 4–3 with a 6‑on‑5 goal. Park­er Kel­ly blocked five shots dur­ing the long shift before Bran­don Montour’s attempt final­ly found its way through everyone.

Jus­tus Annunen start­ed in goal for the Avs for the sixth time in eight games. He didn’t have a lot of tough saves to make, but now has five of the club’s six wins this sea­son. Alexan­dar Georgiev and Kaapo Kahko­nen have made one start each in that span.

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