The Central Division came down to the wire, with Colorado and Dallas trading blows for the last week of the NHL season.
In spite of their franchise-record road success, the Avalanche maintained throughout the final weeks of the regular season that playoff home ice was a worthwhile goal to chase.
The Avalanche achieved their goal Friday, with MacKinnon fittingly the one who pushed them over the top with a hat trick in a 4-3 win over the Predators in Nashville that clinched the Central Division title. Colorado will face the Seattle Kraken in the first round of the playoffs, with Games 1 and 2 scheduled for Tuesday and Thursday at Ball Arena. Seattle qualified as the first wild card in the Western Conference, finishing fourth in the Pacific.
This year’s division title, of course, was cemented by MacKinnon’s heroics in the Music City, with the last of his three goals on Friday night coming off an assist from Mikko Rantanen with the score tied at 3-all and just 1:42 left in regulation. MacKinnon also assisted on the only Avs goal he didn’t score — a Devon Toews tally just 28 seconds into the game that set the tone for a 3-1 Colorado first period — as he finished the regular-season with a career-high 111 points .
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