SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- This time, the Colorado Avalanche got the better of rookie goaltender Evgeni Nabokov.

	Colorado's Jon Klemm, right, helps goalie Patrick Roy by clearing San Jose's Mike Ricci, center, from in front of the crease.

Chris Drury scored the go-ahead goal with 13:57 remaining and then assisted on a power-play score as the Avalanche beat the San Jose Sharks 4-3 Tuesday night.

Nabokov, who had a 39-save shutout during a scoreless tie in his first NHL start at Colorado on Jan. 19, couldn't duplicate the effort in the rematch. He had 20 saves while facing 24 shots.

"In the first game, he was unbelievable," said Milan Hejduk, who scored Colorado's last goal off a picture-perfect pass from Drury. "We couldn't score, but he had a little luck, too. It's tough to play two games in a row against us like that. Today, we had some pretty good shots and he couldn't catch it."

Owen Nolan, who had two goals for San Jose in boosting his season total to a team-record 32, said Nabokov didn't play badly.

"If you look at the goals, you can see he didn't have much of a chance," Nolan said. "If he has a chance, he'll make a save."

Colorado goaltender Patrick Roy, who registered his 47th career shutout in his last game against the Sharks, had 25 saves to remain unbeaten in his last nine starts (6-0-3). Two of the stops came in the final 45 seconds after the Sharks pulled their goaltender in favor of an extra attacker.

"We took it to them the first 10 or 15 minutes in the third period and they took it to us in the last five," Drury said. "Patrick came up with a couple of big saves. We got the breaks and bounces. My shot hit a stick and went in. They hit the post a couple times. But we'll definitely take it and keep shooting."

Nolan scored his second goal of the game and 32nd of the season on a slap shot at the end of a breakaway with 4:04 remaining for a new franchise record. He eclipsed teammate Jeff Friesen's 31, which was set during the 1997-98 season.

Drury snapped a tie with his 14th goal, driving the puck into net with a slap shot from between the faceoff circles.

A little more than three minutes later, Drury sent a pass across the crease and streaking Hejduk pulled up in front of the net to knock the puck past Nabokov for what proved to be the game-winner. It was Colorado's first win in the past four games.

Colorado took a 2-1 lead on a tremendous effort by Peter Forsberg. Taking a lead pass at the red line from Joe Sakic, Forsberg sped down the ice ahead of San Jose's defenders and circled behind the net, beating Nabokov with a wraparound shot at 8:09 of the second.

But San Jose tied it at 2 on Nolan's 31st goal of the season. He sent a forehand shot past Roy from the top of the right faceoff circle after Vincent Damphousse banged the puck out from a scramble along the boards.

San Jose caught Roy away from the net but lost a chance to take the lead late in the second period when Ron Sutter was called for goaltender interference, negating Tony Granato's shot into an empty net.

The teams traded goals in the first period. San Jose opened the scoring 15:51 into the game when Stephane Matteau, off a centering pass from Jeff Norton, hit a backhand shot from the slot past Roy.

Less than two minutes later, the Avalanche evened the score as Alexei Gusarov broke through for his second goal of the season, knocking the puck into the net after getting a nifty one-handed feed from Forsberg.