Avalanche's Casey Mittelstadt: Points in four straight

Mittelstadt scored a goal on two shots and had one hit in Tuesday's 4-3 win over St. Louis.

Mittelstadt started the sequence that led to the tally by winning an offensive-zone faceoff -- he won 11 of 16 draws including four of five in the Blues' end of the ice -- then finished a Samuel Girard feed for his 16th goal. It was Mittelstadt's second marker in five games since being traded from Buffalo and his fourth consecutive contest with a point. Mittelstadt appears to have resolved the Avalanche's problem at second-line center, which has been an issue since Nazem Kadri left in free agency in 2022.