The Colorado Avalanche bring an eight-game winning streak and an NHL-best 35 points into Sunday's visit to the Chicago Blackhawks.

Colorado also boasts a league-leading five goals in the first minute of a game, tallying its latest ultra-quick strike on Saturday.

Brent Burns scored just 15 seconds into an eventual 3-0 victory at Nashville, providing early backing to Mackenzie Blackwood's 35-save shutout.

While the Avalanche were choppy in extended spurts the rest of the way, only padding the lead with a pair of empty-netters over the game's last 1:35, Burns has a pulse on how to regroup.

"Just supporting each other, I think, talking," he said. "If we get the puck out of our zone, we're usually pretty good."

Colorado is on its longest winning streak since a nine-game tear from March 4-2

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