Avs get first win, beat Ducks in OT on Nathan MacKinnon’s goal – Field Level Media – Professional Sports Content Solutions

Nathan MacKinnon scored at 4:19 of overtime to give the Colorado Avalanche their first win of the season, a 4-3 victory over the Anaheim Ducks on Friday night in Denver.

MacKinnon had an assist and Ross Colton scored two goals in the third period, including a center goal. Casey Mittelstadt also scored a goal and an assist, Mikko Rantanen added three assists and Alexandar Georgiev stopped 17 shots for Colorado.

MacKinnon got the winning goal when he got through three Anaheim players and fired a shot to Lukas Dostal, who made the first save before the puck leaked out. It was MacKinnon’s second season and avoided the Avalanche’s first 0-5-0 start since moving to Denver in 1995.

Troy Terry, Leo Carlsson and Ryan Strome scored goals and Dostal made 45 saves for Anaheim.

Colton, who tied the game 35 seconds into the third period, gave Colorado the lead with his fourth goal of the season, a one-timer against Dostal at 11:42.

It’s the first time the Avalanche have led in the third period this season.

The Ducks had consecutive power play chances in the final 5:24 and pulled Dostal in the final minutes. They didn’t score on the power play, but Terry tied the game with his third goal of the season at 19:47.

Carlsson’s second goal of the season gave the Ducks a 1-0 lead after 6:05 minutes.

Anaheim scored again at 19:36 of the first when Colorado thought the game was dead after the puck hit the net behind the goal.

Samuel Girard gently sent the puck out of the zone, where it was picked up by Brian Dumoulin, who skated across the blue line and fired a shot from Georgiev. The rebound fell in front of Georgiev and Strome cleared the ball for the first time this season.

The Avalanche rallied 57 seconds into the middle period when Nikolai Kovalenko hit Mittelstadt with a pass in the neutral zone. Mittelstadt ran alone against Dostal and hit him with a backhand for the fourth time this season.

–Field level media