![]() ![]() He split up MacKinnon and his other superstar forward Mikko Rantanen, placing them on separate lines to fatten his forward group. This is pretty close to as dominant a performance as an individual hockey player can put together.īednar’s search for answers after his club’s Game 1 loss has yielded results. With about 5 minutes to play Nathan MacKinnon has 2 goals, 2 absolutely viral dekes, 5 shots on goal, 6 scoring chances and 13 shot attempts in Game 3. Since then, it’s been the MacKinnon show. Then Seattle jumped out to a 2-0 lead in Game 2 … ![]() Seattle rolled a balanced lineup and played a compact, disciplined game despite their defenders’ aggressiveness taking fourth-man’s ice.īy the end of Game 1, Seattle had made enough of an impression that they forced Avalanche head coach Jared Bednar to stare at the whiteboard, searching for answers and rethinking his lineup. They played shutdown defense, flummoxing the Avalanche’s heavy artillery with a quick, aggressive, structured game plan. Last week, in the Kraken’s first playoff appearance in franchise history, the second-year expansion club dominated the opening game. If MacKinnon taking over this series now feels inevitable, it certainly didn’t five periods ago when the Kraken had the Avalanche reeling. This sequence by MacKinnon was genuinely hilarious /ydSOMsambU He’s left a trail of broken ankles in his wake, the way he did in Game 3, with a two-goal effort punctuated by one of the sickest individual shifts you’ll ever see in the Stanley Cup playoffs: ![]()
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