Colorado Avalanche forward Nathan MacKinnon scored four goals and his career 300th in the 6-4 win over the Ottawa Senators. Colorado's top line dominated with a combined 10 points in the 6-4 win against the Ottawa Senators. Nathan MacKinnon scored four goals and earned an assist to extend his overall point streak and his season-opening home point streak to 17 games each. His quad-goal game was the first for the Avalanche since the franchise moved to Denver in 1995. He also notched his 300th career goal, but the 28-year-old forward wasn't really excited about it. "Not really, no. Slow start to my career so should've hit it a while ago," MacKinnon said after the game. As for his play against the Senators, MacKinnon did not feel it was an extensive effort for him. "I'm just trying to play my best I can. Like I always say, I thought I've had better games, just I got some goals tonight," MacKinnon said. "They just went in. I fanned on one, hit one off the shin pad, empty-netter. So sometimes it feels easy, sometimes it feels really hard. So tonight was easy." Mikko Rantanen scored the two other goals in the game to extend his point streak to six games. He said the team effort was good but there are still some things that need work. "Good I feel like we were, especially on first and third (periods) — I feel like second we were doing some mistakes. But that happens. Those are the things we've been talking about and try to limit those," Rantanen said. "It's going to be more comfortable wins if we limit the odd-man rushes against. Guys fought hard, and losing to Chicago was a tough one for us. We had a good meeting this morning and I feel like it paid dividends." The second period was riddled with turnovers and mistakes that led to scoring chances which head coach Jared Bednar was not pleased with. "Yeah, the second was terrible, terrible — odd man rush after odd man rush coming the other way. So obviously a lack of detail in that period," Bednar said. Valeri Nichushkin had three assists which extended his point streak to six games. Jonathan Drouin continued his point streak and is now at five games with an assist on MacKinnon's first goal. This was the fifth career regular season hat trick and seventh hat trick — including two in the Stanley Cup Playoffs — for the Nova Scotia native. The Avalanche face off against the Arizona Coyotes at Ball Arena on Saturday night. RELATED ARTICLES 'We're addressing everything in here': Avalanche work to get on same page [https://thehockeynews.com/nhl/colorado-avalanche/news/were-addressing-everything-in-here-avalanche-work-to-get-on-same-page] Samuel Girard returns to Colorado Avalanche after receiving care through Player Assistance Program [https://thehockeynews.com/nhl/colorado-avalanche/news/samuel-girard-returns-to-colorado-avalanche-after-receiving-care-through-player-assistance-program] Avalanche loss to Blackhawks was self-inflicted, Toews says some players lack 'self-awareness' [https://thehockeynews.com/nhl/colorado-avalanche/news/avalanche-loss-to-blackhawks-was-self-inflicted-toews-says-some-players-lack-self-awareness]
