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(SportsNetwork.com) - The Colorado Avalanche slowly improved during the first month of the season and the Avs will try to record consecutive wins for the first time in 2014-15 when they visit the surging St. Louis Blues on Saturday. Colorado was shut out by Minnesota in its first two games of the season and had a 1-4-1 mark after six outings. It was a far cry from 2013-14 when rookie head coach Patrick Roy led the club to a 12-1-0 mark out of the gate en route to a surprise Central Division title. Although the Avalanche have only won twice over the last five games, they enter Saturday riding a point streak with a 2-0-3 mark to end October. Colorados best effort of the season likely came in its last game, as the Avs recorded a 5-0 win in Thursdays meeting with the visiting New York Islanders. Semyon Varlamov stopped all 40 shots he faced to record his first shutout of the season, and Nathan MacKinnon added a pair of second-period goals. Both players were big parts of last seasons run to the playoffs, with MacKinnon winning the Calder Trophy and Varlamov garnering a Vezina finalist spot. MacKinnon led all NHL rookies with 63 points last season and was tied for the lead with 24 goals. He scored his first two goals of 2014-15 on Thursday. Tonight was a huge win. And our goaltender was an MVP tonight, MacKinnon said. Erik Johnson, Marc-Andre Cliche and Cody McLeod also provided offense for the Avalanche. With Colorado also set to play Sundays home game versus Anaheim, Varlamov could get a rest this weekend from backup Reto Berra. The Blues, meanwhile, will go with Brian Elliott in net as the club tries to extend its season-high winning streak to four games. After picking up consecutive wins over Chicago and Dallas, the Blues kept their hot streak going with Thursdays 2-0 victory over visiting Anaheim. Jake Allen made 24 saves to record his second career shutout, while Alexander Steen and Ryan Reaves scored the games only goals. St. Louis has played its best hockey of the season of late despite dealing with injuries to key players as well as a bacterial infection that has spread throughout the team. Center Paul Stastny has missed the last five games with a sprained left shoulder, while fellow forwards David Backes and T.J. Oshie sat out Thursday and are both sidelined indefinitely with concussions. Blues center Joakim Lindstrom is questionable for Saturday after becoming the latest St. Louis player to catch an illness. Lindstrom sat out Thursdays win due to flu-like symptoms. Every team in the League is going to have losses (to injuries) all season long, and unfortunately we have them right now, Allen said after his teams win over the Ducks. Elliott is 3-2-1 with a 1.98 goals against average this season, and he has the same exact record and a 2.81 GAA in six career games against Colorado. St. Louis won three of four encounters against the Avs in 2013-14, but Colorado earned a 4-0 victory when the clubs last met on April 5. That win halted Colorados five-game road losing streak against the Blues, but St. Louis has claimed six of the last nine meetings overall Aaron Lynch Jersey . -- Justin Verlander took a no-hit bid into the sixth inning and won his fourth straight decision, leading Detroit over the Kansas City Royals 9-4 Sunday and extending the Tigers winning streak to a season-high five games. Joel Iyiegbuniwe Bears Jersey . The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists detailed in a report how Russian and international journalists have been harassed and prevented from covering sensitive stories in Sochi such as the abuse of migrant workers and environmental issues. http://www.probearsonline.com/.C. Now hes squarely in the U.S. capital and helping the Washington Wizards playoff drive. John Wall scored 33 points, Gooden got 11 of his 21 in the final quarter and the Wizards overcame a 10-point fourth-quarter deficit for a 101-94 win over the Brooklyn Nets on Saturday night. Anthony Miller Jersey . -- Novak Djokovic benefited from an erroneous call and claimed he didnt realize he had broken the rules. Taylor Gabriel Bears Jersey . Curtis Davies and Robert Koren secured the victory with goals inside 35 minutes of the fifth-round replay against the second-tier side.Beijing, China (SportsNetwork.com) - Former No. 1 Rafael Nadal and hot Andy Murray were among Thursdays second-round winners at the $2.5 million China Open. The second-seeded Nadal handled German qualifier Peter Gojowczyk 6-3, 6-4, while the sixth-seeded Murray mauled Uruguays Pablo Cuevas 6-2, 6-2 at Beijing Olympic Green Tennis Center. Nadal was the Beijing champ in 2005 and last years runner-up here to Novak Djokovic. The Spanish star also captured an Olympic gold medal in Beijing in 2008. Murray captured his first title in 15 months with a victory in Shenzhen, China, last week. Nadals quarterfinal opponent on Friday will be Slovak Martin Klizan, while Murray will take on fourth-seeded U.S. Open champ Marin Cilic. Nadal, playing his first tennis in three months after battling a right wrist injury, said he was happy to be in the quarterfinals in his comeback tournament, but added that there was still plenty of work to do. In general I needd to improve.dddddddddddd Its obvious. My serve worked well today. But in general I need more rhythm on the legs, more rhythm on the shots. I am playing okay, trying to not miss a lot, trying to play with not too many risks. Thats what I did today. Its the only way to have matches, only way to have rhythm. Third-seeded 2011 China Open titlist Tomas Berdych handled Serbian wild card Viktor Troicki 6-3, 6-4, while the two-time Beijing runner-up Cilic pasted Portuguese Joao Sousa 6-3, 6-3 and fifth-seeded Grigor Dimitrov grounded Spaniard Pablo Andujar 6-4, 6-4 on Day 4. An upset came when the qualifier Klizan cut down seventh-seeded Ernests Gulbis 6-2, 3-0, retired. Fridays other quarterfinals will pit the world No. 1 Djokovic against Dimitrov and Berdych versus eighth-seeded American John Isner. Djokovic is a four-time Beijing champion. He beat Nadal in last years final for a second straight title here. The 2014 Beijing champion will collect $604,000. 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