CHICAGO (AP) — Skating in his home state www.officialkings.com , J.T. Compher helped keep the Colorado Avalanche rolling.Compher scored his second goal of the game on a breakaway to snap a tie with 5:22 left in the third period, and Colorado beat the Chicago Blackhawks 5-3 Friday night for its third straight win.Compher, from the Chicago suburb of Northbrook, Illinois, broke in alone from center ice after taking a pass from Patrik Nemeth and beat Collin Delia with a shot over the glove.“It’s always fun coming back to play here,” said Compher, a 23-year-old forward in his third NHL season. “I’ve done it a few times now and to get a big win like this is extra special.”The Avalanche kept pace with Minnesota and pulled ahead of Chicago in the race for the final wild card in the Western Conference. The Wild occupy the second wild-card spot with 64 points. The Avalanche have 63, and Chicago remained at 61.Carl Soderberg also had two goals, including a short-handed empty-netter, and Gabriel Landeskog scored his 32nd goal early in the third. Colorado got 41 saves from Semyon Varlamov.Varlamov was sharp as he improved to 4-1-0 in his last five games. He’s given up seven goals and has a 1.41 goals-against average during the stretch.“He’s been outstanding Los Angeles Kings T-Shirts Authentic ,” Landeskog said. “He’s always trying to better his game. It’s awesome to see when he comes up big for us.”Patrick Kane scored his 39th goal to extend his points streak to 20 games and goal-scoring run to five straight. Dylan Strome and Alex DeBrincat also scored for Chicago, while Jonathan Toews and Erik Gustafssson each had two assists.Delia finished 26 saves as Chicago lost for just the third time in its last 13. Kane has 17 goals and 26 assists during his points streak.Blackhawks coach Jeremy Colliton was happy with his team’s effort against a rival.“We’re head-to-head with the team we’re battling with,” Colliton said. “We were really good. I thought it was one of our better efforts of the year, and certainly recently.“Sometimes the results don’t go your way. The challenge is to reproduce that level and if we do, I think we’ll get our fair share of points.”Colorado led 1-0 after a brisk first period that had only one whistle in the opening 9:45.Soderberg opened the scoring with 3:51 left to cap a rush. After plowing past Gustafsson, Soderberg drove to then net, took a pass from Alexander Kerfoot and beat Delia between the pads for this career-high 20th goal.Strome tied it with a power-play goal at 10:48 of the second. Gustafsson’s shot from the blue line whizzed past the left post. The puck bounced off the back board and to Strome, who tucked it in from the edge of the crease.Compher’s power-play goal with 1:55 left in the second put Colorado back ahead, 2-1. He connected from the right side of the slot, and was set up by Mikko Rantanen on a play from a faceoff.The Blackhawks replied from a faceoff in the Colorado zone when Kane scored with 29 seconds left in the frame. Kane was wide open in the right circle when he one-timed in a cross-ice feed from Toews.Landeskog put Colorado in front 3-2 at 3:36 of the third after he rode Toews off the puck deep in the Chicago zone. The Avalanche captain kept skating with the puck Los Angeles Kings Hoodies Authentic , circled across the slot, fired and beat Delia low on the glove side.DeBrincat backhanded in a second rebound midway through the third on a power play to tie it at 3.With Colorado ahead 4-3, the Blackhawks pressured during a power play and with Delia pulled for an extra attacker in the final 1:43. Varlamov was sharp before Soderberg sealed it with his empty-netter with 34 seconds left.NOTES: Kane is the seventh player in NHL history to have multiple point streaks of 20 more games. … Rantanen’s assist on Compher’s goal was his 200th NHL point. … Chicago D Brent Seabrook missed his third game with an abdominal strain and D Carl Dahlstrom sat out with flulike symptoms. … The Blackhawks recalled D Henri Jokiharju from Rockford of the AHL and put him in the lineup. The 19-year-old, a first-round draft pick in 2017, played 37 games for Chicago earlier this season. … Avalanche F Colin Wilson (upper-body injury) missed a sixth straight game and D Ian Cole (upper body) sat out an eighth straight.UP NEXTAvalanche: At Nashville on Saturday.Blackhawks: Host Dallas on Sunday afternoon. ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Eric Staal had already seen his former teammate rob him of a goal once. When he got another chance, he made sure it didn’t happen again.Staal and Mikael Grandlund scored and Devan Dubnyk stopped 27 of 28 shots to lead the Minnesota Wild to a 2-1 win over the Arizona Coyotes on Tuesday night.Brendan Perlini scored and Darcy Kuemper stopped 30 shots in his season debut for Arizona. Kuemper was making his first appearance against the franchise that drafted him in 2009. He spent parts of five seasons in Minnesota before leaving as a free agent in 2017.Kuemper made the save of the game against Staal midway through the second period to keep the game tied 1-1. Minnesota’s Eric Fehr came out of the penalty box to trigger a 3-on-1 for the Wild. Staal skated down the slot and took a pass from Fehr with seemingly half the net to shoot at, but a sprawling Kuemper made a glove save.“That’s frustrating,” said Stahl, who scored 42 goals last season. “I’ll give him some kudos. It was a great save Los Angeles Kings Hats Authentic , but I’ve got to bury those.”Early in the third period, that’s exactly what he did. After Kuemper stopped Ryan Suter’s initial shot, Jason Zucker tapped it across the crease to Staal, who hit the back of the net for his second goal of the season.“I went over to play the shot and (Zucker) made a nice play back against the grain and I couldn’t get there,” Kuemper said.The Coyotes entered the night having scored just two goals in four games, including three shutout losses. But they opened the scoring midway through the first period when Perlini scored his first of the season on the power play.With Greg Pateryn in the box for hooking, Perlini took a pass below the right circle, walked in on Dubnyk and flicked the puck over the goalie’s left shoulder.The Coyotes kept up the pressure as they have all season, putting at least 30 shots on goal for the fifth time in five games. But Dubnyk turned aside shot after shot the rest of the way.“I thought we had our chances,” Coyotes coach Rick Tocchet said. “When you don’t score Custom Los Angeles Kings Jerseys , everything is magnified. That’s the problem.”The Wild tied it early in the second on Granlund’s second goal of the season. Granlund gathered a pass from Jared Spurgeon near the blue line, skated into the high slot and fired a wrist shot that appeared to fool Kuemper, beating him on the glove side.Coming on the heels of a 4-2 loss at Nashville on Monday, Staal said the win was especially gratifying, even this early in the season.“Guys know what’s at stake and what we need to do to win. We needed to get this one,” he said. “We knew it. After last night, we were obviously happy with the way we competed but at the end of the day, it’s about results and we didn’t get the result last night. So we needed to get today, and we gutted it out.”NOTES: Wild captain Mikko Koivu missed the game to attend the birth of his third child. . Minnesota F Matt Hendricks crawled off the ice and limped to the locker room in the last minute of the first period. He did not return. . F Josh Archibald played his first game of the season for Arizona. He missed the previous four games with a lower-body injury.UP NEXTCoyotes: Arizona travels to Chicago to face the Blackhawks on Thursday night.Wild: Minnesota visits Dallas on Friday.