DENVER — Welcome to our live update thread for the evening!
Tyler Kleven crushed Ivan Ivan into the boards and Josh Manson took exception to it. Kleven got absolutely obliterated by a clean series of right hands. Five-minute majors issued to both men.
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Josh Manson is having a night of all sorts in the first period. He’s beaten a guy and up and now he scores! He fires a wrister that slips through traffic and by Leevi Meriläinen to make it 1-0 Colorado.
Martin Necas gathered up a loose puck, found Nathan MacKinnon in the slot and he ripped one by Meriläinen. It’s 2-0 with 2:46 left in the first period.
Colorado will enter the second period on the penalty kill if they can hold on for the rest of the frame as Sam Girard just went to the box for tripping.
Brady Tkachuk drew an interference penalty nearly 20 seconds into the period. That allowed the Senators to go on a 5-on-3 power play for a brief moment until Girard exited the box. However, that also meant the Avs had to kill a second penalty.
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Right after killing off both penalties, MacKinnon left the puck for Makar at the top of the zone before Makar ripped a wrist shot top shelf to make it 3-0. Senators head coach Travis Green subsequently pulled Meriläinen from the net for Mads Sogaard.
5:08 into the second period, Shane Pinto beats Wedgewood with a wrister that got lodged in the back of the net. That was an odd sequence as it took a while for people to realize that a goal had just been scored. Wedgewood will definitely want that one back.
Lars Eller found the back of the net soon after that on another weird play. Claude Giroux attempted a wraparound that ended up with the puck getting stopped by the post, but after a failed clear, Eller got his hands on the loose puck and shot it by Wedgewood. However, Colorado successfully challenged for offsides on the play and the goal was reversed.