1st Period: What a fun twenty minutes! Things started off with a literal BANG when Nathan MacKinnon absolutely rifled a wrist shot past Cam Talbot thanks in part to a beautiful pass Mikko Rantanen fed him just before getting whacked into the boards. Patrick Wiercioch also assisted on the goal. That lead would only last for three minutes, however, after Nikita Zadorov passed a puck to Francois Beauchemin that for whatever reason the alternate captain was unable to handle. The puck went straight to the blade of Connor McDavid's teammate, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, who then tied the game at 1.