TORONTO (AP) — The Colorado Avalanche caught the Toronto Maple Leafs in a lull and took full advantage.Carl Soderberg had his first career hat trick and the Avalanche defeated the Maple Leafs 6-3 on Monday night.Gabriel Landeskog Timothy Liljegren Jersey Womens , Mikko Rantanen and Matt Calvert also scored for Colorado, which had lost nine of its last 10 games overall (1-7-2), and seven straight in regulation on the road.Semyon Varlamov stopped 17 shots for the Avalanche.“We were going tonight,” Soderberg said. “I’m glad we could get a win.”Igor Ozhiganov, Kasperi Kapanen and Mitch Marner scored for Toronto. Frederik Andersen made 32 saves in his return to the starting lineup after missing eight games with a groin injury. Auston Matthews added two assists.Toronto, which entered play two points up on the Boston Bruins for second in the Atlantic Division, has lost five of its last seven games and four of five at home.“We just didn’t win enough races, enough puck battles,” Leafs center John Tavares said. “It starts with guys like myself, we have to do a better job consistently.”The Maple Leafs talked ahead of Monday’s game about how matching a reeling opponent’s desperation level would be crucial. They didn’t come close.“We’ve only got ourselves to blame,” Leafs head coach Mike Babcock said. “This is not good enough.”Soderberg scored his second goal of the game with 8:15 left in the third period and added an empty net goal.Soderberg broke a 3-3 tie midway through the third when he snapped his 14th goal of the season past Andersen off a pass from J.T. Compher after Colin Wilson won a battle behind Toronto’s net.Toronto Antoine Roussel Jersey Womens , which went 4-4-0 without Andersen, pulled its goalie with just under three minutes to go, but Calvert beat Matthews to a loose puck in the Colorado zone and banked a shot off the boards for his seventh of the season with 2:51 left.Soderberg completed the hat trick by scoring into an empty net at 18:12.“Everyone is getting better and we’ve hit a lull,” Babcock said. “We’ve got to get turned.”With some of the fans at Scotiabank Arena booing Leafs defenseman Jake Gardiner every time he touched the puck after a soft play led directly to Soderberg’s short-handed score in the second period to make it 3-2 for the visitors, Marner tied the game six minutes into the third.The winger took a pass from Travis Dermott and ripped his 18th goal of the season and third in as many games past Varlamov’s glove.After a scoreless first, the middle period featured five goals, and another that was disallowed.Ozhiganov scored his third at 2:14 with a shot from the point through a screen fooled Varlamov.Leafs winger Par Lindholm appeared to score at 3:32, but the goal was called back after Colorado challenged for offside.Toronto went right back to work and scored 11 seconds after play resumed — four seconds in game time before the puck entered the net on Lindholm’s effort — when Kapanen snapped a seven-game drought with his 15th.Landeskog tipped home his 28th at 6:33 off a point shot from Tyson Barrie.Andersen did well to stop MacKinnon on a partial breakaway and Wilson’s quick backhand, but could do nothing when Rantanen stripped Nazem Kadri in the Toronto zone and scored his 21st at 9:56.Soderberg then made it 3-2 on his 13th with 5:31 left in the second when he outmuscled Gardiner for the puck late in a Toronto power play before chipping a shot past Andersen’s blocker.With their No. 1 goalie back in the crease, the Leafs played their best lineup — except for injured fourth-line winger Tyler Ennis (broken ankle) — for just the fifth time this season.After Andersen had to be sharp on a couple Colorado chances as Toronto barely touched the puck in the game’s first two minutes, the Leafs had great looks on a power play.NOTES: Andersen had originally targeted Saturday’s home game against Boston Tim Schaller Jersey Womens , only to be cut down by a flu bug. … Leafs backup Garret Sparks, meanwhile, was back on the bench following five games out with a concussion. … Michael Hutchinson, who started the last five outings for Toronto on an emergency basis with both Andersen and Sparks sidelined, was loaned to the AHL Marlies. … Colorado’s top line of Rantanen, Landeskog and Nathan MacKinnon came in with 185 points on the season. Rantanen and MacKinnon ranked second and fifth in league scoring, respectively, while Landeskog was 19th.UP NEXTAvalanche: Wraps up a five-game trip through Canada in Ottawa on Wednesday.Maple Leafs: Visit Tampa Bay Lightning on Thursday. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Colton Sissons had scored one point in his last 16 games for the Nashville Predators before he picked up a goal and an assist in a 2:27 span against the Kings.The Predators expect they’ll need secondary scoring to make a long run in the Stanley Cup playoffs, and Sissons is just one complementary player providing a boost down the stretch.Viktor Arvidsson and Craig Smith also scored, Pekka Rinne made 25 saves and Nashville kept pace in the Central Division race with a 3-1 victory over Los Angeles on Thursday night.Led by Sissons’ first multipoint game since Jan. 7, the Predators snapped a two-game skid with a rejuvenating win over the last-place Kings. Nashville has taken points at Staples Center in nine consecutive visits Jay Beagle Jersey Womens , and the Kings never looked likely to end that streak.“It’s probably the best game we’ve played in recent weeks,” Sissons said. “It feels good to put a complete effort in from start to finish and to just have everybody step up and play their best game.”Heading toward a showdown Saturday with Western Conference-leading San Jose, the Predators responded well after falling behind early in a loss at 14th-place Anaheim on Tuesday night to open this three-game California road trip. They started solidly, weathered a rough patch and took control during a two-goal second period before finishing strong.“We’ve taken ownership in our game from what happened in Anaheim,” Smith said. “That’s what this team does.”Nashville (40-27-5) remained one point behind Central-leading Winnipeg (41-25-4). The defending division champion Predators also increased their lead over third-place St. Louis and Dallas to six points, although the Jets, Blues and Stars all have two games in hand on Nashville.Austin Wagner scored and Jonathan Quick stopped 31 shots as Los Angeles opened a five-game homestand by losing for the 14th time in 16 games.“We didn’t work hard enough, obviously,” Wagner said. “That first period wasn’t good enough.”Los Angeles had three days off following a victory at Anaheim, but failed in its attempt to win back-to-back games for the first time since Feb. 5-7. The Kings are guaranteed to finish with their worst point total in a full season since the 2008-09 campaign.“I didn’t think we had a great start in the game, which we control Curtis McKenzie Jersey Womens ,” Kings coach Willie Desjardins said. “We had a couple of opportunities in the first period (on) power plays that we just didn’t generate enough. I don’t think we were hungry enough in the first. I thought the second (period) we came with more energy. I thought the third (period) we were trying to play with energy, but they’re a pretty good team and they’re hard to handle.”Arvidsson put the Predators ahead late in the first period with his 29th goal moments after a stunning save on the other end by Rinne, who has a long history of jaw-dropping play against Southern California’s NHL teams.Wagner tied it early in the second with the 10th goal of his promising rookie season during his first game back from a four-game injury absence. Rookie defenseman Matt Roy picked up his first NHL point on the play.Smith put the Predators back ahead late in the second when he batted Quick’s generous rebound of Sissons’ shot out of midair for his 19th goal. Sissons then scored an unassisted goal after intercepting Alec Martinez’s pass and beating Quick with a stoppable shot.Quick has played some of his worst hockey when he faces the Predators, posting the worst save percentage and goals-against average of the Conn Smythe Trophy winner’s long career against any opponent.NOTES: Kyle Turris was a healthy scratch for Nashville. The veteran had played in 16 consecutive games since returning from injury, but has only one goal and three assists during that stretch. “I made a lineup decision,” Nashville coach Peter Laviolette said. … Kings LW Jonny Brodzinski was scratched with Wagner’s return to the lineup. D Kurtis MacDermid also was scratched in favor of D Sean Walker. … Nashville avoided its first three-game losing streak since Feb. 9-12. … Nashville has won 40 games for the fifth consecutive season.UP NEXTPredators: At the San Jose Sharks on Saturday.Kings: Host the Florida Panthers on Saturday.