Cale Makar’s hat trick highlights Avs’ rout of Red Wings

Cale Makar notched his first career hat trick and added an assist, Nathan MacKinnon had a goal and three assists to extend his home point streak to 31 games, and the Colorado Avalanche beat the Detroit Red Wings 7-2 in Denver on Wednesday night.MacKinnon tied Mario Lemieux and Bryan Trottier for the fourth-longest home point streaks in NHL history. He can tie Guy Lafleur for third all-time Friday night against Minnesota.MacKinnon, who has a five-game goal streak, took the NHL points lead with 109, breaking a tie with Tampa Bay’s Nikita Kucherov.Jean-Luc Foudy scored his first NHL goal, Jonathan Drouin had a goal and an assist, Artturi Lehkonen also scored, Mikko Rantanen added four assists and Alexandar Georgiev turned away 27 shots for Colorado.The Avalanche won after a busy day of trading. They sent defenseman Bowen Byram to Buffalo for center Casey Mittelstadt and dealt forward Ryan Johansen to Philadelphia for defenseman Sean Walker.Robbi Fabbri and David Perron scored for Detroit. Alex Lyon had 35 saves before being replaced by James Reimar, who stopped 12 shots.The game was tied 2-all after a busy first period before Colorado pulled away with three unanswered goals in the second.Lehkonen made it 3-2 at 8:49, his 10th goal of the season. Makar got his second of the night when he scored on a backhand at 16:12.

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