The Avs are looking to bounce back from an early playoff from last season.
The Finnish forward became the third player in NHL history to have at least four points in consecutive season openers, leading the Avalanche to a 5-2 victory over the Los Angeles Kings on Wednesday night.
Rantanen, who finished third in the league last season with a career-high and franchise-record 55 goals, missed the final week of training camp due to a lower body injury. He was healthy though in time for when the games started to count for real. Miles Wood also scored for the Avalanche, who have won 12 straight regular-season road games dating to last season. Alexandar Georgiev stopped 35 shots.
Rantanen gave Colorado a 3-0 lead and completed a run of two goals in 53 seconds at 3:47 of the second period when he beat Talbot top shelf on a wrist shot from a tight angle inside the left faceoff circle that went in near the far post.
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