In the ice hockey NHL, a big bunch of matches were played already at 10 pm Finnish time on Friday evening.
On the Friday after Thanksgiving, no fewer than ten NHL games were played in Finnish prime time in North America.
In the earliest of them, the Philadelphia Flyers took a tough 3–1 home victory over the New York Rangers and rose to ninth place in the Eastern Conference’s flat middle class, the same number of points as the Rangers. However, the Rangers have played two games less.
Flyers Finnish pack Rasmus Ristolainen got an assist Travis Konecny to the 2–1 winning goal, which was already created in the opening set in 4:24. Konecny scored his second goal in the end. Rangers Kaapo Kako missed points (-1) and got 14:30 playing time.
Florida took the top game in the East
The conference leader Carolina Hurricanes and the reigning champion Florida Panthers met in the East’s top fight.
After the opening set, Florida led 3–1. From Florida Anton Lundell initially Jesper Boqvist The 1–0 goal stopped Carolina’s demolition attempt.
Alexander Barkov in turn bait by Sam Reinhart 2–1 goal. Again, Florida, this time with its Finnish captain, stopped Carolina’s takedown attempt on the wing before the blue line.
Between Sebastian Aho bait by Seth Jarvis By virtue of a 1–1 draw. Aho retrieved the puck from behind his own goal and gave a long through pass while the Florida four were sleeping.
In the second and third period, only Aho reached the statistics from Carolina’s Finns, with two goals. After the second set, the situation was 3-3, when Carolina had scored Sean Walker and Eric Robinson.
Instead, Florida’s Finns were on display in the triple set. In the end, the team roared to a 6–3 victory. Anton Lundell finished the counterattack 5–3, Eetu Luostarinen from the rebound of the shot.
In the Eastern Conference, the New Jersey Devils rose to the top by beating Detroit 5–4. The Devils have 34 surfaces, Carolina and Washington have 33, and Florida has 29, but the number of games played varies.
A wild goal celebration in the West
In the Western Conference, the San Jose Sharks and the Seattle Kraken, who belong to the bottom of the tail, ran wild.
After the opening set, Kraken led 3–2. of Seattle Eeli Tolvanen was by Oliver Björkstrand Pitcher of a 1-1 tie.
After the second set, San Jose led 6–5. A Finnish hero playing a top season in the miserable Sharks Mikael Granlund served at the beginning of the set of William Smith 3–3 hit and hit himself at the end of the set to make it 5–4.
Granlund’s hit was a handsome lift to the top shelf at the end of the Sharks’ counterattack.
Granlund has achieved 10+16=26 performances in 24 matches. On the Finnish stock exchange, he is second after Colorado’s Mikko Rantanen (14+18=32).
In the third set Ethan Cardwell and to an empty goal Jake Wallman forged the final numbers 8–5 in favor of San Jose.
All NHL results of the round can be found on teletext page 235, Finnish results on page 236 and Series table on page 237.