Werner makes 40 saves in debut, Avalanche shut out Jets

WINNIPEG — Adam Werner made 40 saves in his NHL debut for the Colorado Avalanche in a Four-Zero win towards the Winnipeg Jets at Bell MTS Place on Tuesday.”You’ll want to have a dream, and an enormous dream on the market, and work for it and be ready if one thing occurred,” Werner mentioned. “I had a fairly nice begin there, a simple shot, and I get a really feel for the puck. The fellows helped me a lot, so it was a pleasant recreation to play for me.”Werner changed Pavel Francouz 31 seconds into the sport after the beginning goalie was injured in a collision in his crease with Jets middle Mark Scheifele. [WATCH: All Avalanche vs. Jets highlights] “After all, there’s some nerves,” Werner mentioned. “However you simply get in there in a short while, and I assume I simply tried to have enjoyable and play my recreation.”Nathan MacKinnon had two objectives and two assists, and Joonas Donskoi scored and had two assists for the Avalanche (11-5-2), who’ve received three video games in a row following an Zero-Four-1 stretch. Matt Calvert had two assists.Video: COL@WPG: MacKinnon scores 18 seconds into the third”I am actually blissful for [Werner]. It is a tremendous efficiency for him,” MacKinnon mentioned. “Got here in so comfortably and made some big saves. It wasn’t simply a simple recreation for him.”The Jets (10-Eight-1) had their five-game level streak come to an finish (Four-Zero-1) and dropped to 5-5-1 at house.”If the photographs had been 40-[25] for them tonight, I might have been fairly darn disillusioned,” Winnipeg coach Paul Maurice mentioned. “So I am not strolling away from this one too dejected. Two years of being a completely dominant house group, and I am undecided we will count on that, however that is tremendous. As a result of we have been fairly tight and fairly good on the street. We’ll need to scratch and claw wherever the puck’s dropped. We’ll need to go a bit more durable than we did tonight.”Cale Makar made it 1-Zero with 59 seconds left within the first interval when he skated round sprawled Jets ahead Mathieu Perreault within the left face-off circle and shot from the hash marks. The rookie defenseman has scored 4 occasions throughout a three-game purpose streak.MacKinnon scored from the left circle 18 seconds into the third interval to provide Colorado a 2-Zero lead and once more on a breakaway at 7:13 to make it Three-Zero.Video: COL@WPG: MacKinnon streaks in and scores second purpose”It was a irritating recreation,” Jets defenseman Josh Morrissey mentioned. “It simply felt like we had been proper there, and the puck simply sort of did not go our approach a pair occasions. We had a whole lot of possibilities. Give him credit score, their goalie made a whole lot of large saves.”These are those the place you are feeling such as you do a whole lot of good issues, after which you find yourself with nothing to point out for it, nothing on the board.”Donskoi scored on the facility play at 13:13 to make it Four-Zero.”It wasn’t our greatest recreation, however we performed laborious and did some actually good issues,” Avalanche coach Jared Bednar mentioned. “Our goalie steps up. And Nathan MacKinnon and his line too. We had been, you’d say, a bit bit opportunistic tonight.”Werner was recalled from the Colorado Eagles of the American Hockey League on Nov. 7 with No. 1 goalie Philipp Grubauer out with a lower-body harm. The 22-year-old was chosen within the fifth spherical (No. 131) of the 2016 NHL Draft by the Avalanche.Video: Werner earns Tuesday’s Pepsi Zero Sugar Shutout Bednar didn’t have an replace on Francouz.”I believe that is seven guys now out of our lineup (due to harm), so it is quite a bit, and influence gamers and gamers at each place,” Bednar mentioned. “To see our guys proceed to grind and form of carve out some wins right here and there, they are not all the time fairly, however you have to attempt to discover a method to win, and that is what we did tonight.”Winnipeg goalie Connor Hellebuyck made 21 saves on 25 photographs. They mentioned it”That is the most important key for me, nice karma and nice positioning.” — Avalanche goalie Adam Werner, who received his NHL debut in reduction of injured starter Pavel Francouz”Within the first interval, there was some offense that we simply completely left on the desk. We would have liked to be a bit sharper with our palms.” — Jets coach Paul Maurice Have to knowMacKinnon has eight factors (three objectives, 5 assists) previously three video games. … Makar prolonged his level streak to 4 video games (4 objectives, three assists). … Donskoi has 4 objectives and two assists previously three video games. … Scheifele was referred to as for goaltender interference on the play that injured Francouz. What’s nextAvalanche: On the Edmonton Oilers on Thursday (9 p.m. ET; SNW, ALT, NHL.TV)Jets: On the Florida Panthers on Thursday (7 p.m. ET; FS-F, TSN3, NHL.TV)Video: Werner, MacKinnon lead Avalanche previous Jets