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Stastny Sets NHL Record
Scores At Least A Point In 18 Straight Games
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From: Denver Post
by Terry Frei

(left) The Avs' Paul Stastny etched his name in NHL history Sunday when he recorded a point in his 18th consecutive game, a rookie record

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St. Paul, Minn. - Paul Stastny's smile was a tight one, the sort tempered by a bit of disappointment.

"It's good to get it over with," the Avalanche center said Sunday in the visitors dressing room at the Xcel Energy Center. "Now I don't have to talk about it so much."

The Avalanche had to settle for one point and one record in a matinee against the Minnesota Wild.

Stastny took sole possession of the NHL point-streak record for rookies with a first-period assist on Milan Hejduk's goal, but Colorado suffered a setback in its longshot quest for a playoff spot when Brent Burns' goal at 4:41 of overtime lifted the Wild to a 3-2 victory.

On an Avalanche power play, Stastny's pass set up Andrew Brunette for a shot against Minnesota goalie Niklas Backstrom, who made the save before Hejduk lifted in the rebound to make it 1-1 at 16:16 of the first period. And with that, Stastny passed Teemu Selanne, who finished off his remarkable 76-goal rookie season with Winnipeg in 1992-93 with a 17-game point streak.

"We've done that so many times, I knew it was going to turn out to be my assist," Stastny said.