Colorado Avalanche center Nathan MacKinnon scored a lot of pretty goals. Here are five of the most stunning examples.
Colorado Avalanche star center Nathan MacKinnon scored a lot of goals last season — 39 in the regular season and three in the playoffs, to be exact. And, of course, they were all beautiful goals because they were Colorado Avalanche goals.
In fact, 42 goals is a lot to choose from. And, spoiler alert, MacKinnon actually doesn’t score a ton of ugly goals. Pretty much the majority of his tallies are skill goals.
Therefore, I had to narrow down the list a little. So, I took out all the game-winners because we already saw them in this post:
I also omitted the goal against the Minnesota Wild featured in this post:
Likewise, half of the goals in this post were by MacKinnon:
That still left a fair amount of goals for me to sift through. So, as a general rule, I didn’t consider any power play goals — there were some pretty ones, but Nate showcases elite skill at even strength. He doesn’t need the man-advantage.
I also didn’t consider any goals from games in which the Avalanche ultimately lost. Again, that was just a little arbitrary so I could narrow down the list.
There were still plenty of stunning goals to sift through from last season. So, I added one more constraint — the goal needed to make me chortle in glee when I watched it. With that final parameter in place, here are the five amazing Nathan MacKinnon goals I came up with.