MacKenzie Blackwood made 51 saves, and Thomas Bordeleau scored his first NHL goal, but the Colorado Avalanche won in a shootout.

MacKenzie Blackwood made 51 saves, and Thomas Bordeleau scored his first NHL goal, but the Colorado Avalanche won 2-1 in a shootout.

"I've been working hard with the goalie coach here and getting a lot of good work in, and I felt pretty good about where my game was at," Blackwood said. "The boys did a good job of defending the middle of the ice and pushing stuff to the outside. Sometimes, you need to get lucky on a couple of them there, too. [They hit] some posts and some pucks were swept out the backside, but overall, I thought it was a good start." 

At 8:42 of the first period, Bordeleau tipped the puck past Avalanche netminder Alexandar Georgiev. Matt Benning and Mike Hoffman assisted on the play.

"Right place, right time," Bordeleau said. "Just got a shot from [Benning], and I just tried to get a stick on it, and it went in." 

Blackwood was under constant pressure all game. His defensemen and a crossbar bailed him out, but the former New Jersey Devil was spectacular.

"There were a lot of good things to draw from this. I know, in the third period, they got 20 shots, and they had us hemmed in," Sharks head coach David Quinn said. "We defended too much, first and foremost, but I thought we defended hard. They didn't get a lot of rebound chances. We were good around our net. But again, we just got to be better on six on five."

Cale Makar scored his second of the season to tie the game. Georgiev made 20 saves. 

Marc-Edouard Vlasic left the game in the first period and did not return. 

FIRST PERIOD:

8:42: Thomas Bordeleau deflects the puck for his first NHL goal. Matt Benning took a shot from the point after Mike Hoffman got the puck to him. 1-0 Sharks.

San Jose was outshot 16-8 in the first period. MacKenzie Blackwood was stellar throughout. Benning came up huge again when we swept the puck off the goal line.

A few minutes later, Jan Rutta did the same thing. 

SECOND PERIOD: 

Although the second period started better for San Jose, the Avs increased the pressure as the period went on. 

Colorado outshot the Sharks 15-8 in the second frame. They are outshooting the Sharks 31-17 through two periods.

THIRD PERIOD: 

Blackwood continues to amaze with this split save on Cale Makar. He's up to 42 saves.

"They shifted over to the point shot, and it hit my pad and kind of squirted it out to the far side," Blackwood said about the save. "I just turned and pushed over and tried to cover the bottom of the net."

18:34: Cale Makar finally beats Blackwood on the 50th shot of the game. 1-1.

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