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Franchise-Record Win

After being shutout in their opening game of the season against the Detroit Red Wings, the Avs have rattled off 5 straight wins and are now perfect on the road after a 3-2 overtime victory against the host Toronto Maple Leafs on Monday night.

David Jones was the hero scoring his team-leading fourth goal of the season on a rebound off of a Kyle Quincy point shot 1:11 into the extra session. 

The goal came after former Maple Leafs goaltender Jean-Sebastien Gigure stopped a Phil Kessel chance with a glove save at the other end of the ice.

The Leafs forced overtime with time ticking down in the third, as Nikolai Kulemin pounced on Dion Phaneuf's rebound and backhanded it past Giguere to make it 2-2.

The Avs looked to be in control for the better part of the third before allowing the tying goal and entered the period with a 2-1 lead. Milan Hejduk broke a 1-1 tie with a power-play goal at the 14:14 mark, when his low shot from the top of the faceoff circle got by Leafs goaltender James Reimer thanks to a good screen by Jones, who was named the game's first star.

Hejduk has now registered a point in four of Colorado's first six games.  Erik Johnson and Paul Statsny earned assists on Hejduk's tally.

Things are indeed clicking for Phil Kessel, who entered Monday's game tied for the League lead in goals and points and he opened the scoring early in the second period, when he fooled Giguere with a wrist shot from 10 feet inside the blue line. The goal came just 19 seconds into the period.

Toronto native Daniel Winnik evened the score just over 3 minutes later when he beat Reimer five-hole for his second goal in three games. The play was created by Ryan O'Reilly, who drove two Leaf defenders back towards their own goal as he made the pass, thus creating a screen for Winnik as he erased a 1-0 deficit.

The Avs now return home and have a few days off before they host the Chicago Blackhawks on Thursday at the Pepsi Center. Toronto hosts Winnipeg on Wednesday.

Source: NHL.com