Avs win, Nate scores first playoff goal

Congratulations to former Halifax Moosehead Nathan MacKinnon who has scored his first career playoff goal in the National Hockey League. The rookie scored at 6:20 of the first period to tie the game at ones after another former Q player, Charlie Coyle scored his second playoff goal to give the Minnesota Wild a 1-0 lead. All I got to stay about Nate's goal is it was awesome!

In the second period MacKinnon kept being a big part of the Colorado Avalnche game this year, making two very nice plays to captain Gabriel Landskog who scored twice in the middle frame to make it a 3-1 game after 40 minutes. Both teams would go on to add another goal in the last two minutes of the game for a Game 2 final 4-2 Avalanche. Nate would add an assist to end the night with 4 points. 

He is now tied with Paul Statsny for playoff points lead with 7 points through two games and leads both the playoff assists and the plus/minus stats. He is plus-5 through two games.