Ottawa at Colorado — NHL January 8, 2026

2 – 8

Final

Ball Arena, Denver, CO

	1	2	3	T
OTT	0	1	1	2
COL	2	6	0	8

OTT 31 shots on goal 34 COL

Recap

Three stars

1st star

J. Manson

2 goals

2 assists

+5 rating

2nd star

N. MacKinnon

1 goal

3 assists

3rd star

B. Nelson

2 goals

1 assist

+1 rating

Closing line

Scoring

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

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

	3rd Per	OTT	COL
7:03	Brady Tkachuk 9 (short-handed) (Assists: Tyler Kleven 6)	2	8

Penalties

1st Per

2nd Per

3rd Per

3:04 Samuel Girard (Roughing - 2 min) drawn by Claude Giroux served by Gavin Brindley
3:04 Samuel Girard (Fighting - 5 min) drawn by Tim Stutzle
3:04 Tim Stutzle (Fighting - 5 min) drawn by Samuel Girard
5:55 Shane Pinto (Roughing - 2 min) drawn by Scott Wedgewood
11:49 Nick Cousins (Roughing - 2 min) drawn by Samuel Girard served by David Perron
11:49 Nick Cousins (Misconduct - 10 min)
13:59 Ridly Greig (Slashing - 2 min) drawn by Martin Necas served by Drake Batherson
13:59 Ridly Greig (Misconduct - 10 min)