Overview
- With 37 seconds left in the second period, officials gave Nathan MacKinnon a five-minute goalie-interference major with an automatic game misconduct and upheld it after video review.
- In the sequence, Darnell Nurse made contact with MacKinnon before he collided with goalie Connor Ingram, who left with a forehead cut and was held out by concussion protocol; Tristan Jarry relieved and stopped 11 of 12 for the win.
- Colorado killed the remaining 4:05 of the major to start the third, but Connor McDavid later netted the go-ahead power-play goal as Edmonton won 4-3; Ryan Nugent-Hopkins scored twice.
- Coach Jared Bednar, Nazem Kadri and Cale Makar disputed the ruling, arguing MacKinnon tried to avoid the crease and contact was induced by Nurse; officials told players Nurse’s push was insufficient, according to ESPN.
- Multiple outlets noted the rarity of a five-minute major for goalie interference; no supplemental discipline had been announced, and both benches were shortened by injuries to Ingram, Colorado’s Ross Colton, and two Oilers skaters.