New York Rangers' right-wing Darroll Powe goes down trying to get a shot on a wrap-around in front of Ottawa Senators' goalie Robin Lehner and center Peter Regin (No. 13) in New York Friday. — Reuters DENVER, Colorado — The Chicago Blackhawks' record point streak to start the National Hockey League season ended after 24 games as they suffered a 6-2 loss to the Colorado Avalanche Friday. Colorado's Matt Duchene scored one goal and set up three others to spark the Avalanche, who scored four unanswered goals on only nine shots in the second period to break a 1-1 deadlock and seize command. The Blackhawks, who saw their club-record win streak snapped at 11 games, began the season with an overall mark of 21 wins and three over-time losses, each worth a single point, during the unprecedented streak. That amounted to a half-season with only three points less than the maximum possible in this year's campaign, which was trimmed to 48 games per club due to a lockout by club owners in a money dispute with players. Fans in the sellout crowd at the Denver arena began chanting, “End of streak” as the closing minutes ticked off the clock. Dating to last season, the Blackhawks had not been beaten in regulation time over 30 games, going 24-0-6 in a 347-day span, until being crushed by the Avalanche. Chicago fell five games shy of matching the overall NHL record point streak established by the 1979-80 Philadelphia Flyers. Jets 3, Panthers 2 (OT): The Winnipeg Jets, who had lost in the BB&T Center just 72 hours earlier, avenged that defeat, beating the Florida Panthers 3-2 on an overtime goal by Dustin Byfuglien. Byfuglien scored with just 40.5 seconds left in overtime. On Tuesday, the Panthers beat the Jets, 4-1. This time, though, the Jets came back strong to win their fifth game in the past seven, pushing Winnipeg closer to a top-eight standing and, ultimately, a playoff berth in the Eastern Conference. Senators 3, Rangers 2: Jakob Silfverberg's late goal helped the Ottawa Senators squeeze past the New York Rangers 3-2 in a rough, physical game at Madison Square Garden. The victory snapped a four-game losing streak for the Senators (13-8-4) in the teams' first matchup at the Garden since the Rangers' Game 7 victory in the first round of last year's playoffs. In another outings it was: Predators 6, Oilers 0; Anaheilm beat Calgary 4-0. — Agencies
