It’s already been a good season for Nathan MacKinnon, and things are just getting started.
On Thursday night, he put up a pair of goals against the Buffalo Sabres, contributing heavily in the team’s 6-1 victory over Jack Eichel and company.
While a large part of that is his own offensive talent, though, every goal has two sides — the offensive skill and the defensive breakdown. Here, I’ve taken a look at what had to go wrong (and who did the right things on the scoring end) to make one of those goals by MacKinnon, the first of the two on the night, possible.