The Carolina Hurricanes grabbed the playoff spot. The Florida Panthers have miraculously evened the series against the Boston Bruins.
In the hockey NHL, the second runner-up from the 1st round of the playoffs has been decided. Earlier, Vegas secured their spot in the top eight at the expense of the Winnipeg Jets.
On the night between Friday and Saturday, Finnish time, the Carolina Hurricanes succeeded. Carolina won the match played in New York 2–1 in the first overtime.
Konkar striker Cal Clutterbuck, 35, led the Islanders in 9:20. After that, we had to wait for goals until the middle of the third period. Sebastian Aho equalized in 49:24. Aho was sharp at the goal post, caught the high bounce puck down with his hand and finished with skill.
Carolina’s experienced four chain attacker became Carolina’s hero Paul Stastny37, in the overtime period of 6.01. Derek Stephan first cut off the Islanders’ bad puck at the blue line and Stastny surprised the goalkeeper from a small angle Ilya Sorokin.
Aho’s equalizing goal and Stastny’s overtime decision with the video in place of the story’s main picture.
Carolina’s goal in all previous Islanders games in this series had a save Antti Raanta. However, Carolina had lost the previous match 2–3, and now made a save with a goal Frederik Andersen. The Dane survived his career perfectly, 35/36 saves.
Aho played as Carolina’s number one center for a good 21 minutes, shot Four times and had the most tackles in the match, five times. Aho’s performances in six Islanders games were 4+3=7. With 22 playoff goals in his career, he is the number one player in Carolina club history.
The center of the triple chain Jesperi Kotkaniemi too got more than 19 minutes of playing time. In the second set, Kotkaniemi had a great place to equalize, but the shot went over the bar. Jesse Puljujärvi attacked on the edge of the four chain, playing time 9.26. Teuvo Teräväinen is sidelined with a broken hand.
Carolina will face the New York Rangers or the New Jersey Devils next. Devils lead 3–2.
Florida has pulled off a wild trick
The match series between Boston and the Florida Panthers, who set the points record in the regular season, should have been applauded. Boston already led the series 3–1. At the latest, when Boston took the third tie with a dull 6-2 away win, Florida’s chances were thought to be dashed.
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After that, Florida claimed a dramatic overtime victory over Boston. Now Florida beat the Bruins in a 12-goal celebration on their home ice, 7–5. The series is suddenly tied at 3-3. The decisive stoppage game will be played Finnish time on Sunday evening.
Alexander Barkov served in the opening set Brandon Montour 1–0 goal and scored a 3–2 goal midway through the second period.
No less than seven goals were seen in the third period. Boston took a 4–3 lead by Tyler Bertuzzi and David Pastrnak too with goals. of Florida Zac Dalpe equalized in 47.21 Eetu Luostarinen and by Anton Lundell preliminary work.
Then Boston took the lead in 10:22 By Jake DeBrusk with an underpowered goal. However, Florida immediately followed with superiority, making it the clear number one team in the playoffs Matthew Tkachuk.
Eetu Luostarinen scored the winning goal in 54.22. At the end Sam Reinhart still scored into an empty net.
Tkachuk has collected 5+5=10 performances in the playoffs, he is fourth in the playoffs points market. In the game of six, he scored 2+1.
Among the Finns, Barkov scored 1+1, Luostarinen 1+1 and Lundell 0+2. Barkov finally got his goal faucet open, now 1+4 in the Boston series.
1st round of the playoffs, 6th matches (with four wins to continue):
NY Islanders–Carolina and. 1–2 (1–0, 0–0, 0–1, 0–1)
C: Sebastian Aho 1+0
Carolina won 4–2 to the second round.
Florida–Boston 7–5 (2–1, 1–1, 4–3)
F: Aleksander Barkov 1+1, Anton Lundell 0+2, Eetu Luostarinen 1+1
Match wins 3–3.
Minnesota–Dallas 1–4 (0–1, 0–2, 1–1)
D: Roope Hintz 1+0
Dallas won 4–2 to the second round.
Between Seattle and Colorado.