Greatest Moments of NHL Season ... So Far: first round, matchup 1

The 2019-20 NHL season had many incredible moments before it paused March 12 because of concerns surrounding the coronavirus, and now fans can decide which one was the best.

The Greatest Moments of the NHL Season … So Far
have been placed into a bracket of 64 entries, and fans will vote on one matchup per day, ultimately deciding the greatest moment up until this point.
Fans can vote on

and Instagram each day from noon until 10 a.m. ET the next day. Each day, a winner of that matchup will be revealed, and a new set of moments will go head-to-head.
Though fans will have the ultimate say, two NHL.com staff members will weigh in on the matchup each day to give his or her opinion on which one should advance to the next round.
The matchup Monday pits Anaheim Ducks goalie Ryan Miller
trading a puck for some Girl Scout Cookies
on Feb. 13 against the Colorado Avalanche
scoring six goals in eight minutes
against the Nashville Predators
on Nov. 7
.

David Satriano, staff writer

I'll take Ryan Miller and the Girl Scout Cookies, in this case a box of Thin Mints. We've seen fans get pucks for creative signs and even get puppies when a certain player has scored, but this took it to a new level. When has a player ever received a snack for giving a puck to a kid? Miller was taking warmups and luckily spotted the sign before any of his teammates, so he got the advantage of trading a puck for a box of Thin Mints, arguably the best of the Girl Scout Cookies (we'll save that debate for another day). Miller was the backup for that game against the Calgary Flames, so he could have eaten the Thin Mints on the bench while watching his team, but he put them in a freezer at Honda Center to save them for a future pregame snack, and that could've given him an advantage in a future game. Not to downplay what the Avalanche did, six goals in eight minutes is impressive, but I'd venture to guess it's been done before, probably even multiple times. I'll take the chocolatey goodness over a nice offensive output any day.

Pete Jensen, senior fantasy editor

Everyone loves some player-fan interaction, but Colorado's offensive display against Nashville on Nov. 7 was as dominant a performance as we would see from any team all season. The Avalanche became the first of three different NHL teams in 2019-20 (Tampa Bay Lightning twice, Vancouver Canucks once) to score nine goals in one game, and six of their goals came in an exhilarating eight-minute span of the second period. The secondary scorers finished their chances to flip the script from a 3-2 Nashville lead to an 8-3 Colorado advantage in what seemed like a blink of an eye. Forward Joonas Donskoi, who scored twice in the eight minutes, had his first NHL hat trick and was one of eight Avalanche players with multiple points. Center Nathan MacKinnon, who did not play in the third period as a precaution after sustaining an upper-body injury, still had four points (one goal, three assists) in 14:28. And the fact that the Avalanche scored nine goals without two of their three best offensive players, injured wings Mikko Rantanen and Gabriel Landeskog, in the lineup made this my pick out of these two moments.