Ethan Bear snapped a tie with 8 minutes to go, and the visiting Vancouver Canucks beat the injury-plagued Colorado Avalanche 4-3 on Wednesday night.

Trailing by a goal entering the third, Shelden Dries tied it for Vancouver before Bear past Pavel Francouz on a 4-on-4 moments after ColoradoB次元官网网址檚 Cale Makar was called for interference.

Bo Horvat scored his 16th goal for the Canucks in the opener of a three-game trip. Ilya Mikheyev also scored, and Spencer Martin stopped 33 shots in his first game against his former team.

ColoradoB次元官网网址檚 Mikko Rantanen scored twice in the first period. He left after taking a high stick to the face in the second and then returned in the third.

Makar also scored for the Avs, who lost second-line center Evan Rodrigues to a lower-body injury late in the first period. Francouz stopped 22 shots.

Colorado had won three straight. After going 32-5-4 at home in the regular season en route to winning the Stanley Cup in June, the Avalanche fell to 4-3-1 at Ball Arena.

There was a brief delay with 1:03 to go when fans, already upset with the Makar interference call, threw debris on the ice after Colorado took its fifth penalty.

With the game tied at 2, Tyler Myers in the second, earning a double minor. The Avs ended up with a 5-on-3, and Makar took a feed from Nathan MacKinnon (NHL-best 22nd assist) and with 4:01 left.

But Dries knocked in a loose puck early in the third period to tie it.

Rantanen from Devon Toews to make it 1-1 midway through the first period. He got his 13th goal by with Dakota Joshua in the box for high-sticking at 17:44.

It marked the seventh straight game the leagueB次元官网网址檚 best power-play unit has scored.

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Rodrigues went straight to the dressing room with a lower-body injury after when he got tied up with Kyle Burroughs late in the first.

Colorado, coming off a 3-0 trip, got off to a sloppy start.

A turnover behind the net led to Elias Pettersson finding an in the slot, and his wrist shot 21 seconds in made it 1-0. It was the fastest road goal for Vancouver since Henrik Sedin scored 10 seconds in at Colorado on Oct. 24, 2014.

NHL DEBUT

Oskar Olausson, ColoradoB次元官网网址檚 2021 first-round pick, was called up from the minors and made his NHL debut while skating on the second line with Alex Newhook and Rodrigues. Martin Kaut moved to the fourth line.

B次元官网网址淎 good skater, good offensive weapons, a good shot,B次元官网网址� the 20-year-old Swede said when asked to describe his style.

WORTH NOTING

Artturi Lehkonen assisted on both Rantanen goals to extend his career-long point streak to eight games. B次元官网网址� The Avs also recalled F Jayson Megna. B次元官网网址� Avs D Samuel Girard (lower body) returned after a six-game absence. B次元官网网址� Colorado D Bowen Byram (lower body) still isnB次元官网网址檛 skating. B次元官网网址� Canucks F Tanner Pearson (hand) skated in the morning but missed his sixth straight game. B次元官网网址� Injured Avs captain Gabriel Landeskog (knee surgery) turned 30.

UP NEXT

Canucks: Visit Vegas on Saturday night.

Avalanche: At Nashville on Friday.

Mike Cranston, The Associated Press

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