Matt Duchene and Nathan MacKinnon scored in the shootout to support goalie Calvin Pickard, and the Colorado Avalanche defeated the San Jose Sharks 4-3 at Pepsi Center. Pickard made 30 saves through overtime, and then denied Joonas Donskoi and Joe Pavelski in the shootout. The Avalanche have won three of their past four games and five of seven. Martin Jones made 38 saves for the Sharks, who went 3-1-1 on a five-game road trip.
San Jose tied it 3-3 on Joel Ward's goal with 1:31 remaining in regulation after Jones went to the bench for a sixth skater. Ward deflected center Joe Thornton’s shot from the left side past Pickard. Colorado took a 3-2 lead at 11:45 of the third period on Gabriel Landeskog's 15th goal. Landeskog kicked defenseman Andrew Bodnarchuk’s shot onto his stick and jammed it behind Jones.
The Avalanche tied it 2-2 on Jarome Iginla's power-play goal at 5:35 of the third after he drew a holding penalty on Donskoi. Defenseman Tyson Barrie passed to Iginla in the left circle for a one-timer past Jones' stick. The goal was Iginla's 18th of the season and 607th in his NHL career, one behind 17th place Dino Ciccarelli on the League’s all-time list. He has three goals and three assists in a five-game point streak. The Avalanche were in a 1-for-18 slump on the power play covering parts of six games before Iginla’s goal.
Brent Burns gave the Sharks a 2-1 lead at 1:50 of the third. Burns carried the puck behind the Avalanche net and banked it off Avalanche defenseman Erik Johnson's right skate for his 20th goal. Burns has two goals and an assist in a three-game point streak. Pickard made a save against Burns just before time expired in the second period. Burns accepted a cross-ice pass from Pavelski and took a shot in the right circle.
Jones made a save against Johnson at 17:15 of the period, shortly after San Jose killed Melker Karlsson's penalty for holding John Mitchell. The Avalanche outshot the Sharks 14-7 in the second period and had a 25-16 advantage heading to the third.
San Jose's Nick Spaling and Colorado's Shawn Matthias, who were linemates with the Toronto Maple Leafs as recently as Saturday, each scored in the first period in his first game with his new team. Spaling beat Pickard to the short side at 2:10 with a shot from the right faceoff dot after he blocked a shot.
Spaling scored his first goal of the season Saturday against the Philadelphia Flyers in his final game with Toronto, ending a 60-game drought dating to Feb. 15, 2015. He was traded Monday with Roman Polak for Raffi Torres and second-round picks in the 2017 and 2018 NHL Draft.
Matthias, who also scored Saturday, was acquired Sunday for minor-league center Colin Smith and a fourth-round pick in 2016. He knocked the rebound of Carl Soderberg's backhand shot behind Jones at 13:02 for his seventh goal.
The Sharks had one shot on a power play after Duchene was penalized for high sticking 4:35 into the game. Justin Braun shot the puck off the left goal post at 16:43 of the first after a turnover by Iginla in the Colorado end.
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