Now this is coming through in the nick of time.<\/p>\n
For the first time in NHL history, there were four contests that featured game-tying goals within the final 15 seconds of regulation on the same day.<\/p>\n
Cutting it even more close, two of the tying scores on Tuesday night came within the final 2 seconds, which marks just the second time that\u2019s happened on the same day (Oct. 8, 2009), according to NHL Stats<\/a>.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n There was plenty of late-night drama on the ice.<\/p>\n Pavel Dorofeyev<\/a> of Vegas tied his game against the New York Islanders with 14 seconds left, while Colorado’s Cale Makar came<\/a> through on a power-play goal with 8 seconds remaining at Nashville.<\/p>\n Connor McDavid<\/a> cut it a little closer by scoring the equalizer for Edmonton with 2 seconds on the clock versus Buffalo, and 19-year-old Beckett Sennecke of Anaheim<\/a> really had a flair for the dramatic, scoring with 1 second left in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Alas, not all the tying goals resulted in favorable endings.<\/p>\n Of the four late-scoring teams, only Anaheim prevailed \u2014 in a shootout, no less. Dorofeyev and the Golden Knights lost to the Islanders in a shootout. It was the same fate for Makar and the Avalanche, who lost in a shootout.<\/p>\n As for McDavid and the Oilers, they lost 33 seconds into OT when Buffalo’s Alex Tuch scored.<\/p>\n So far this season, the NHL has had 372 close contests, which is defined as a one-goal margin or two-plus with an empty-net goal. It’s the most at this stage of a season in league history (475 games played), according to NHL research<\/a>.<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n