Valeri Nichushkin completed a hat trick with an empty-net score after Nathan MacKinnon knocked in the go-ahead goal with 4:15 remaining and the Colorado Avalanche rallied from two goals down to beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 7-4 .

MacKinnon gave the Avs a 5-4 lead on the power play at 15:45 of the third period with his 26th goal of the season via a left-circle wrist shot. With that goal, he picked up his 99th point of the season and the 998th point of his career.

Valeri Nichushkin had three goals for his first career regular-season hat trick, Nathan MacKinnon had two goals to reach 100 points for the season, and the Colorado Avalanche rallied in the third period to beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 7-4 in Denver on Saturday night.

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The Toronto Maple Leafs will travel to the Rocky Mountains to face the Colorado Avalanche. It will be a showdown at Ball Arena as we continue our NHL odds series and make a Maple Leafs-Avalanche prediction and pick.