<p>DENVER — Philipp Grubauer made 27 saves, Andre Burakovsky and Nazem Kadri each had a goal and an assist and the Colorado Avalanche beat the Los Angeles Kings 4-1 on Sunday.</p>
<p>Nathan MacKinnon and Joonas Donskoi also scored for Colorado. The Avalanche swept the two-game series with Los Angeles and allowed fewer than 30 shots on goal for the 16th straight game, extending a franchise record set Friday night. </p>
<p>Grubauer nearly had another shutout before Kurtis MacDermid ended the bid early in the third period.</p>
<p>Cal Petersen made 37 saves for the Kings. </p>
<p>Colorado kept up its recent trend, outshooting the Kings 20-4 in the first period and took a 1-0 lead midway through when Kadri beat Petersen from the slot at 11:05.</p>
<p>Los Angeles turned up the pressure in the second period with several good scoring chances but couldn’t get one by Grubauer. </p>
<p> Burakovsky made it 2-0 when he tipped a centering pass from Kadri over Petersen’s shoulder at 14:05. It was his sixth of the season.</p>
<p>Just 3:04 later, Donskoi crashed the net and knocked in a rebound that rolled off Petersen to make it 3-0. MacDermid’s second goal of the season 6:07 into the third was the Kings’ only goal in the two games.</p>
<p>MacKinnon’s goal into an empty net with 3:19 left sealed it.</p>
<p>Notes: The game was originally scheduled to start at 7 p.m,, but was moved up to 3:30 p.m. because of a major snowstorm forecast for the weekend. Snow started falling Saturday and became more intense Sunday. … Kings F Dustin Brown was scratched with an upper-body injury. Alex Iafallo was back in the lineup after missing Friday’s game with a non-covid illness. He assisted on MacDermid’s goal.</p>
<p>UP NEXT</p>
<p>Kings: Host St. Louis on Monday and Wednesday nights.</p>
<p>Avalanche: Host Anaheim on Tuesday night.</p>
