In the NHL playoffs, Carolina kept its chance to continue by defeating the Rangers with 4–3 goals.
The Carolina Hurricanes went into the fourth meeting of the playoff series against the New York Rangers with the mentality – lose to summer vacation, win to continue the season. The team managed to win in front of their home crowd in front of the Rangers with goals 4–3. This is how the games for Carolina will continue, at least for the time being, when the team travels to New York at the beginning of the week.
In the match played early Finnish time on Sunday morning, Carolina got off to a good start after being added to the team in March Yevgeny Kuznetsov scored his third goal of the playoffs.
A moment later Teuvo Teräväinen bait by Stefan Noesen completed the 2–0 hit.
However, the Rangers got into the game in the form of goals just less than two minutes after Carolina’s previous one, when to Will Cuy hit Kaapo Kako input. The Finn’s second power point of the playoffs (1+1).
Before the end of the first period Sebastian Aho still painted the numbers 3–1 in favor of Carolina. The goal was the third of the Finnish playoffs.
The Finnish forward became the 10th player in NHL history to score at least 10 points in six consecutive playoff seasons. Wayne Gretzky is number one in the statistics for 11 seasons.
In the second minute of the third period, Rangers tied the game at 3-3, having played excellent playoffs so far Alexis Lafreniere (4+6=10) hitting between the posts.
Gaining self-confidence from the goal, Kuznetsov also tried aerial tricks in the final set, but was unsuccessful. Rangers defender Adam Fox knocked the puck off Kuznetsov’s platform in the situation.
Carolina Brady Skjei got to shout at the home crowd only a good three minutes before the end of the actual game time, when the Yankee defender scored with an upper hand from Teräväinen’s pass.
The power play goal was Carolina’s first of the playoff series. The team had been dominant in the Rangers series before this 16 times.
– Of course, it was a really important goal. I was pretty excited, goal scorer Skjei said In an interview with NHL.com.
Carolina’s Commander-in-Chief Rod Brind’Amour said the game of the night was the team’s worst in the series so far.
– Out of our four games, this was the worst. Hockey is weird. We will fight again for victory.
Aho said after the match that his team was very aggressive in the first set.
– We played it very aggressively. We did what we had to do. We want to win again in game five.
Defender of the New Yorkers Jacob Trouba said after the match For The Atheletic that he is looking forward to returning in front of the home crowd.
– We will have a pretty raucous audience in New York, it will be a fun game.
The teams meet in the fifth match of the series early Tuesday morning Finnish time.
The Dallas Stars and the Colorado Avalanche met in the second game of the playoff round. Dallas celebrated the victory with a score of 4–1. The series is now 2–1 for the Stars.
NHL playoff results from page 235 of teletext.