Oilers' Connor McDavid part of hockey history never done before in NHL

Billy Heyen

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The NHL has never had a night quite like Tuesday.

Everywhere you looked, a last-second goal was saving the day, highlighted by Connor McDavid's goal with 1.0 second left to force overtime for the Edmonton Oilers against the Buffalo Sabres.

It marked the first night in NHL history with four game-tying goals in the final 15 seconds of regulation, according to Puck Report

McDavid's came from the biggest name, and it completed an Oilers comeback from down 3-0 to get three goals in the third period (two by McDavid). Unfortunately for Edmonton, it then lost in overtime to Buffalo.

Anaheim got an even later goal, coming from Beckett Sennecke with less than a second on the clock. The Ducks went on to beat the Penguins in a shootout.

Cale Makar scored for the Colorado Avalanche with eight seconds left in regulation. They pulled the same trick as the Oilers, though, and lost in a shootout to the Predators.

Paval Dorofeyev made it relatively easy on himself here, scoring with 14 seconds to play for the Vegas Golden Knights. They, too, went on to lose in a shootout, their defeat coming to the Islanders.

So apparently there isn't quite the momentum boost you'd expect from such a late goal, given three of these turned into losses, although yes, it's a small-sample size.

But what a night for drama. Hopefully you didn't turn these games off early, because you would've missed the last-second history being made across the league.

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