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Golden Knights: They became the NHL’s first expansion team to reach 100 points in their first year season with the overtime loss at San Jose on Thursday. “It’s impressive. It’s a great season for our guys. Guys came together real quick. A great job so far, but we’re not done yet,” Vegas forward James Neal told reporters Thursday. … Forward William Karlsson leads the NHL with a plus-40 rating and has a team-high 39 goals, tied for fourth most in the league. Karlsson, 25, did not score more than nine goals in his first two full NHL seasons. … Forward David Perron, who is playing for his fifth NHL team, has career highs in assists (50) and points (66). … Vegas is 2-0-1 since losing two in a row, including a 8-3 blowout loss at home against New Jersey. … The Knights produced just 21 shots but defeated the Avalanche 7-0 in October in Las Vegas.

Avalanche: Defenseman Nikita Zadorov delivered a career-high 15 hits in Thursday’s 7-1 loss to visiting Los Angeles, setting a club record and producing the most by any NHL player in a game since 2005-06. The Avs allowed a power-play goal in that game, just their ninth allowed this season at home. Colorado is 107-for-116 (92.2 percent) in penalty killing at home, tops in the league. … Nathan MacKinnon is on a career-best points streak of 14 games, the NHL’s longest active points streak and third longest this season behind the Devils’ Taylor Hall (19) and the Jets’ Patrik Laine (15). It’s the longest points streak by an Avalanche player since Paul Stastny (20) in 2006-07. … Mikko Rantanen scored the Avs’ goal Thursday, extending his point streak to eight games, and he also became the fourth Finnish player to produce 80 points in a season, joining Jari Kurri, Teemu Selanne and Olli Jokinen. … MacKinnon and Rantanten have 21 points apiece in March, tied for the league lead. … The Avs have eight remaining games, and if they go 4-4 they will finish with 96 points — exactly twice the amount they ended with last season (48). … Lakewood-raised goalie Nicole Hensley of the gold-medal-winning U.S. women’s Olympic team will drop the ceremonial puck Saturday. — Mike Chambers, The Denver Post