Ducks 5, Avalanche 3
DENVER -- Jakob Silfverberg scored twice, John Gibson had 29 saves and the Anaheim Ducks beat the Colorado Avalanche 5-3 on Saturday to keep their Pacific Division title hopes alive.
Ryan Getzlaf, Ryan Garbutt and Cam Fowler also scored, and Corey Perry had three assists for Anaheim.
The Ducks (45-25-11) temporarily moved into a first-place tie with Los Angeles with 101 points.
The Kings can take the division title and No. 2 seed in the Western Conference with a win over Winnipeg on Saturday night. The Ducks would face San Jose in the first round of the playoffs.
A loss by Los Angeles and Anaheim could win the division by earning a point in Washington on Sunday in a game scheduled for Jan. 22 but postponed because of to a snowstorm.
Jarome Iginla scored his 611th career goal to move into 16th all-time, 14 behind Colorado vice president Joe Sakic for 15th. Zach Redmond and Nick Holden also scored and Semyon Varlamov stopped 26 shots for the Avalanche.
Colorado (39-39-4) lost its last five home games and six overall to finish out of the playoffs for the second straight year.
Sakic called it "unacceptable" in a pregame press conference but said despite the disappointing finish coach Patrick Roy will return for a fourth season.
The Avalanche were in seventh in the Western Conference after going 6-2 in the first three weeks of March, but then dropped eight of their last nine games.
Colorado had a chance to end with a victory but Getzlaf and Silfverberg scored 1:37 apart in the third to break open a one-goal game.
Redmond scored a power-play goal with 1:17 left for Colorado, which finished 17-20-4 at Pepsi Center.
Avalanche left winger Andres Martinsen received a game misconduct for his blind-side hit on Garbutt at 11:42 of the first period. Josh Manson got a minor for roughing in retaliation and the teams skated four-on-four for two minutes.
After Manson's penalty expired, Fowler scored a power-play goal to give Anaheim the lead.
Silfverberg made it 2-0 late in the first with his 19th goal of the season.
The lead was 3-0 after Garbutt scored at 9:37 of the second period, but Holden scored 17 seconds later and then Iginla's 22nd goal only 32 seconds after that made it 3-2 heading into the third period.
NOTES: D Kevin Bieksa, C Shawn Horcoff, LW David Perron, C Rickard Rakell and D Sami Vatanen were among the scratches for the Ducks. ... Avalanche C Nathan MacKinnon missed the last 10 games of the season because of a knee injury. MacKinnon, who was the team's second leading scorer when he was hurt, had played in every game before going down. ... Anaheim coach Bruce Boudreau said Frederik Anderson might get the start in goal for Sunday's makeup game at Washington. He will make the decision after he knows his team's fate at the end of play Saturday. ... Colorado C Matt Duchene, who scored his 30th goal of the season on April 3, is the first Avalanche player to reach that level since Joe Sakic had 36 in 2006-07.