Top Cheddar 2026-27

Thursday, January 8, 2026 · Ball Arena

Senators 2 at Avalanche 8

Final

Three Stars

D 77OVR Josh Manson Avalanche First Star 2G · 2A · 5 SOG C 99OVR Nathan MacKinnon Avalanche Second Star 1G · 3A · 5 SOG C 91OVR Brock Nelson Avalanche Third Star 2G · 1A · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 10:11 Josh Manson (3) Ross Colton (12), Brock Nelson (16) · Wrist OTT 0 – 1 COL
  2. 17:14 Nathan MacKinnon (36) Martin Necas (35), Sam Malinski (20) · Wrist OTT 0 – 2 COL

2nd Period

  1. 2:35 Cale Makar (13) Nathan MacKinnon (40), Josh Manson (14) · Wrist OTT 0 – 3 COL
  2. 5:08 Shane Pinto (13) Claude Giroux (21), Jake Sanderson (24) · Wrist OTT 1 – 3 COL
  3. 11:46 Martin Necas (20) PPG Nathan MacKinnon (41), Cale Makar (37) · Slap OTT 1 – 4 COL
  4. 12:03 Brent Burns (6) Josh Manson (15), Ross Colton (13) · Wrist OTT 1 – 5 COL
  5. 14:23 Brock Nelson (20) PPG Nathan MacKinnon (42), Cale Makar (38) · Slap OTT 1 – 6 COL
  6. 16:48 Josh Manson (4) Jack Drury (7), Zakhar Bardakov (6) · Slap OTT 1 – 7 COL
  7. 18:04 Brock Nelson (21) Ilya Solovyov (2), Ross Colton (14) · Slap OTT 1 – 8 COL

3rd Period

  1. 7:03 Brady Tkachuk (8) SHG Tyler Kleven (6) · Snap OTT 2 – 8 COL

Ottawa Senators

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Brady Tkachuk L 1 0 7 5 0 -1 15:04 0.98
Tyler Kleven D 0 1 1 5 3 +1 19:01 0.73
Claude Giroux R 0 1 1 1 0 -1 17:26 0.55
Jake Sanderson D 0 1 2 3 2 -2 20:29 0.53
Shane Pinto C 1 0 3 0 0 -1 18:10 0.43
Nikolas Matinpalo D 0 0 0 2 1 +1 19:40 0.25
Drake Batherson R 0 0 3 0 0 -1 15:15 0.07
Dylan Cozens C 0 0 3 4 0 -1 14:02 0.07
Jordan Spence D 0 0 4 1 1 -2 17:20 0.05
David Perron L 0 0 1 3 1 -1 13:41 -0.02
Lars Eller C 0 0 1 1 1 -1 11:10 -0.02
Fabian Zetterlund L 0 0 1 5 0 -1 12:46 -0.08
Michael Amadio R 0 0 0 1 1 -1 13:54 -0.25
Thomas Chabot D 0 0 2 2 1 -3 19:47 -0.25
Artem Zub D 0 0 0 0 2 -3 18:30 -0.40
Ridly Greig C 0 0 2 2 0 0 16:30 -0.70
Tim Stützle C 0 0 0 1 0 -2 17:07 -0.78
Nick Cousins C 0 0 0 2 1 -2 10:44 -1.15
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Leevi Meriläinen L 18 15 3 .833 42:35 -0.75
Mads Sogaard — 16 11 5 .688 17:25 -2.65

Colorado Avalanche

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Josh Manson D 2 2 5 3 4 +5 19:25 3.65
Nathan MacKinnon C 1 3 5 0 1 0 17:14 3.00
Ross Colton C 0 3 4 2 0 +3 15:14 2.58
Brock Nelson C 2 1 2 0 0 +1 16:09 2.43
Cale Makar D 1 2 1 1 1 0 19:50 2.08
Martin Necas C 1 1 2 1 0 +2 18:33 1.78
Brent Burns D 1 0 5 1 3 +2 20:23 1.58
Jack Drury C 0 1 2 0 2 +1 16:16 1.03
Ilya Solovyov D 0 1 0 2 1 +2 17:49 0.98
Zakhar Bardakov C 0 1 0 1 2 +1 11:43 0.83
Sam Malinski D 0 1 1 0 0 0 16:19 0.70
Valeri Nichushkin R 0 0 1 0 1 +2 15:03 0.43
Parker Kelly C 0 0 2 1 2 0 17:06 0.25
Artturi Lehkonen L 0 0 4 0 0 -1 17:14 0.15
Ivan Ivan C 0 0 0 0 0 +1 9:37 0.15
Gavin Brindley C 0 0 0 0 1 0 13:53 0.05
Victor Olofsson L 0 0 0 0 0 0 14:03 -0.10
Samuel Girard D 0 0 0 0 3 +1 18:09 -0.37
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Scott Wedgewood W 31 29 2 .935 60:00 1.40