Jonathan Drouin completes incredible comeback with overtime goal

If there’s one group we do not need to fret about in between now and completion of the season, it’s the Colorado Avalanche.

They are presently in a heated fight for top place in the NHL, with an excellent record of 46-20-5, which put them 3rd in the whole league before Sunday’s video games.

On Sunday afternoon, they dealt with the lowly Pittsburgh Penguins, who remained in 24th location in general before today’s video games.

A group they had little to fear.

On the other hand, the Penguins came extremely near disturbing the Avalanche, scoring the very first 4 objectives of the video game.

With simply over 4 minutes staying in the 2nd duration, following Pittsburgh’s 4th objective, the Avalanche’s possibilities of winning were slim.

That’s when an unbelievable resurgence started.

Colorado’s latest acquisition, Sean Walker, scored his 9th objective of the season to make it 4-1.

Right before completion of the 2nd duration, Yakov Trenin, another current acquisition, cut the deficit to 2 objectives.

To begin the 3rd duration on the best foot, Quebec’s Jonathan Drouin chose to take the return to heart.

He scored a gorgeous objective on the rebound to make it 4-3 in favor of the Pens

Nathan MacKinnon and Devon Toews were credited with helps on Drouin’s 14th objective of the season:

Jonathan Drouin is on After signing up 2 helps last video game, he ratings an appeal on a rocket one-timer. What a blast! @jodrouin27@OctagonHockey pic.twitter.com/PFOIPVjxKC

— Allan Walsh (@walsha) March 24, 2024

About 10 minutes later on, with less than 5 minutes left in the video game, none besides Nathan MacKinon finished the return to require overtime in this video game.

Drouin and MacKinnon have actually plainly discovered the chemistry they had with the Halifax Mooseheads

MacKinnon’s Drouin-prepared catch-and-shoot objective was a carbon copy of Drouin’s MacKinnon-prepared objective.

I’m pleased for Drouin, who lastly appears to have actually discovered his location in Colorado with his buddy, MacKinnon.

And you thought it: it was Jonathan Drouin who offered his group success in overtime with a splendid objective.

Drouin and MacKinnon each had 3 points in the win.

This return shares numerous resemblances with the Montreal Canadiens’ historical resurgence versus the New York Rangers.

MacKinnon extended his streak of home video games with at least one point to 34– every video game at home.

He’s getting alarmingly near the record held by Wayne Gretzky, who scored a point in every 40 home video games, although they were just 80-game seasons.

He might therefore end up being the very first gamer in history to keep that streak at 41 successive home video games in a single season.

The success puts the Avalanche in top place in the NHL (99 points), ahead of the Vancouver Canucks (98 points) and Rangers (98 points).

The Rangers and Canucks did not use Sunday. This combines top place for Colorado for today.

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— Evander Kane will not participate in tonight’s video game.

— An essential date for the brand-new age of hockey.

It’s the anniversary of the very first Michigan objective!

Let’s travel down memory lane and see every Michigan objective scored in the NHL … pic.twitter.com/wp8w0XpOKB

— NHL (@NHL) March 24, 2024