The game started on a sad note as both Mike Green and Connor McDavid were dressed for puck drop. Both teams spent the first quarter of the period rifling the puck around the boards and grinding to kick the puck out front of each others’ nets. If you’re the type of hockey fan who says “perimeter play really gets my motor going,” then this was the start you’d been waiting for all year.
At 13:40, Edmonton took a too many men penalty, which ended up being one of those power plays that’s really run and gun in both directions, exactly the way nobody practices.