The Avalanche registered the game's first seven shots and led 2-0 before Ottawa recorded its first shot almost eight minutes into the game. Makar opened the scoring at 2:35 with a wrist shot from the top of the faceoff dot, and then Nichushkin made it 2-0 on a power play at the five-minute mark. "The first goal is the biggest goal, for me, " Avalanche coach Jared Bednar said. Ottawa did have 12 of the final 15 shots of the period and were rewarded with a power-play goal as Batherson redirected a slap pass from Stützle with 27 seconds remaining in the opening frame. "We left it all out there.
Mikko Rantanen had a goal and two assists and Lars Eller scored a bizarre winner as the Avalanche won their fourth straight game with a 5-4 victory over the Sens. "As a whole probably 95 per cent of the time if your team plays that hard you're going to win. That wasn't the case today, " said Senators coach DJ Smith, whose team has lost four straight games. BOXSCORE: Avalanche 5, Senators 4Colorado defenceman Cale Makar had a goal and an assist while Valeri Nichushkin and Evan Rodrigues chipped in with a goal apiece.
On what the Senators appeared to think was an icing against the Avalanche, the puck bounced off the end boards and was in the corner of the crease by Sogaard's pad. With Senators' defenceman Jake Sanderson standing next to his netminder, no whistle came to end the play. After a couple of seconds, Eller skated in and jammed the puck past a confused group of Senators at 18:09. After a lengthy review on a goaltender interference challenge from Senators coach, the goal stood. "They said it wasn't icing it wasn't icing and they didn't blow the whistle. Then our [video] guy in the back said [Eller] pushed his pad in.
They reviewed it and that's not what they got, " Smith said. "Disappointing for our guys. I thought we worked extremely hard and got a result we didn't deserve. We came to play today, and we probably still be playing, but things happen and you can't control them. "Draisaitl pots 2 goals, reaches 100 points as Oilers down SenatorsHamonic scored at 2:52 of the third period and then Tkachuk scored on the power play at 13:18 to pull the Senators to within a goal at 5-4, but they got no closer — thanks to a game-saving acrobatic stop by Johansson with five seconds to play.
Nathan MacKinnon notched three assists for the Avalanche (39-22-6) and goaltender Jonas Johansson stopped 31 shots. Drake Batherson, Shane Pinto, Travis Hamonic and Brady Tkachuk scored for the Senators (33-31-4), who dropped their fourth straight. Tim Stützle had three assists and Mads Sogaard made 25 saves in the Sens net. WATCH | Eller scores weird winner against Senators:Controversial goal gives Avalanche win over SenatorsLars Eller's strange second period goal proved to be the winner as Colorado defeated Ottawa 5-4. The Senators, who were coming of a long western road trip, came out sluggish.
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