Cale Makar scored the tiebreaking goal, Scott Wedgewood made 24 saves and the top-seeded Colorado Avalanche moved to the brink of the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs with a 4-2 victory over the Los Angeles Kings in Game 3 of their first-round series.

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LOS ANGELES – Artturi Lehkonen came up ice with a head of steam with Logan O'Connor on a 2-on-1 short-handed opportunity. He said he meant to pass it to O’Connor, but the puck deflected off Adrian Kempe ’s skate and went in the net instead for Lehkonen’s first career Stanley Cup Playoff short-handed goal.

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