In a chippy game between teams at the opposite ends of the Western Conference standings Wednesday night, the playoff-bound Avalanche rallied to force overtime before Anaheim’s Rickard Rakell scored with 1.2 seconds remaining in the Ducks’ 4-3 victory at the Pepsi Center.
“We could have used a little puck luck,” Avs coach Jared Bednar said after his team saw its seven-game winning streak end.
Rakell used a long wrist shot from the right circle to beat goalie Pavel Francouz, who lost for the first time in seven starts. The Avs had seven shots and plenty of chances to win it in OT, with Valeri Nichushkin firing his second shot off the post in a game when Colorado had at least four shots clang off iron beside 39-year-old goalie Ryan Miller.