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The five-minute overtime period lasted precisely five minutes. No whistles. No stoppages. Just one faceoff to commence play and five minutes of back-and-forth hockey between both clubs. The Preds had a 5-4 shot advantage, but neither team was able to score.<\/p>\n
Started at 11:28, ended at 11:33. No breaks. pic.twitter.com\/gmB6hRvLJl<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Corey Masisak (@cmasisak22) December 10, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n 1. How about this for weird: Cale Makar scored a power-play goal. The gifted Avalanche defenseman got his 10th goal of the year in just 30 games, but only his first on the PP. In fact, he hasn\u2019t scored a power-play goal since April 3. That includes going score-less in the final weeks of last year\u2019s regular season and the seven-game playoff series against Dallas.<\/p>\n 2.\u00a0Makar couldn\u2019t have timed his goal more perfectly. Not only did he tally the game-tying goal late in regulation to secure one point for the Avs and force OT, but the goal, which came on a 6-on-4 attack with the goalie pulled, was scored by No. 8 with precisely 8.0 seconds left.<\/p>\n 3.\u00a0There were three other late game-tying goals around the league on Tuesday. Pavel Dorofeyev tied the game for Vegas with 14 seconds left before they lost in a shootout. Connor McDavid scored for Edmonton with two seconds left to force OT, before Edmonton eventually lost. And in Pittsburgh, Anaheim\u2019s Beckett Sennecke got the game-tying goal with literally 0.1 seconds remaining in regulation. Anaheim went on to win in a shootout.<\/p>\n 4. This is the first time in NHL history that four games have had a game-tying goal with less than 15 seconds left on the same day.<\/p>\n 5. Two more assists for Nathan MacKinnon. His first, which came on an Artturi Lehkonen goal in the first period, got him to 50 points in 30 games. He became the second-fastest player in franchise history to reach the 50-point, being narrowly beat by Peter Forsberg in the innaugural 1995-96 Avalanche season.<\/p>\n Forsberg reached the mark in 29 games that year.<\/p>\n 6. Both goals from Brock Nelson and Lehkonen in the first period were great individual efforts. MacKinnon played a part in the turnover that led to his linemate\u2019s game-tying tally, but it was still impressive by No. 62.<\/p>\n Nelson made a sweet toe-drag move on Roman Josi, and Lehkonen completely outmuscled the bigger defender in front to find the loose rebound.<\/p>\n 7. The power play saved the day late. But the first three chances Colorado had were bad. Very bad.<\/p>\n The Avs were on the man advantage for 4:18 of the final 4:55 of the second period, and they carried 1:38 of PP time into the third and didn\u2019t score then either.<\/p>\n 8.\u00a0Nelson has 20 points in 30 games. It\u2019s not a crazy pace, but it\u2019s still solid for a No. 2 center. And it\u2019s even more impressive given that he needed 15 points in the last 14 games to reach 20 in 30 after the slow start he had.<\/p>\n 9.\u00a0I\u2019m not entirely sure how Wedgewood is doing after that collision, but that looked terrible. Let\u2019s hope, when the Avs take the ice on Thursday for morning skate, that he\u2019s out there with them.<\/p>\n 10. Samuel Girard deserves praise for an excellent defensive play on Ryan O\u2019Reilly late in the third period. O\u2019Reilly had a wide-open backdoor play to give the Preds the lead, but Girard tied his stick up and did not allow him to get the shot off.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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