Varlamov won his 108th game with the Avalanche and moved past Dan Bouchard into second place on the franchise wins list. Jarome Iginla had two assists to move past Phil Housley (1,232) into sole possession of 38th place with 1,233 points in his career.

Tampa Bay, coming off a 1-1-2 road trip, got a goal from Alex Killorn.

Tanguay opened the scoring during a goal-mouth scramble with 4 minutes, 3 seconds left in the first. A no-goal call on the ice was overturned after a video review.

The Avalanche made it 2-0 with 6:56 left in the second after Iginla sent a pass from behind net off goalie Ben Bishop that MacKinnon put into the net from in-close.

MacKinnon has five goals and 10 points in five games against the Lightning.

Killorn got the Lightning within 2-1 during a power play with 4:14 left in the second. It ended a scoreless stretch of 156 minutes, 3 seconds for Tampa Bay, which had consecutive road shutout losses at Chicago and St. Louis.

Varlamov stopped a short-handed breakaway shot late in the first by Valtteri Filppula. The goalie also made a save on Ondrej Palat’s breakaway early in the third.

Avalanche slide

Colorado head coach Patrick Roy is 1-1-1 in road games at Tampa Bay. He never won a road game as a goalie against the Lightning during his Hall of Fame playing career, going 0-7-1. … Lightning LW Jonathan Drouin was a late scratch with a lower-body injury. … Tampa Bay C Cedric Paquette missed his second consecutive game because of an ankle injury. … Lightning C Brian Boyle returned after missing three games with an undisclosed injury.