The Finnish striker Avalanche said before the match that the illness suffered in the second final had been reversed. Ismo Lehkonen said that his son was most likely to have had food poisoning before the second final.
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The Colorado Avalanche suffered a return to ground early Tuesday morning after two NHL final wins. Tampa Bay won the third final of the Stanley Cup in their home scores with a score of 6-2.
The evening was also crowded for the Finnish players of the visiting team. Played in one of Colorado’s second teams Mikko Rantanen and Artturi Lehkonen were clearly left on the frosty side in Tampa’s hot air. Rantanen, who gave two goal passes with force, added to the plus-minus statistic -2 and Lehkonen to -3.
– Today they were both really hard. Their chain didn’t get a lot of mistakes in terms of quantity, but their chain made two bad defensive game mistakes in the match and both became a goal, Sports Expert Ismo Lehkonen tells by phone about Florida. Ismo Lehkonen is the father of Artturi Lehkonen.
– It was very unfortunate in itself, because these goals attracted these big boys from Tampa Bay, the star players (Nikita) Kutsherov(Steven) Stamkosin and (Ondrej) Palatinate.
Lehkonen is also looking at the finals coming on Thursday here. According to him, the most important thing about the finals for Colorado is whether the Lightning power chain has now fully awakened to the final series.
– It can cause them a lot of problems in the future, he says.
Ismo Lehkonen said that his son had previously suffered from stomach upset in the second final in Denver. Artturi Lehkonen told Urheilu before the 3rd final in Finnish time on Tuesday that the nausea had subsided before the match in Tampa.
– It was okay to play in the last game then. Everything is fine now, he acknowledged briefly.
According to Ismo’s father, the cause was most likely food poisoning.
– He went vomiting a couple of times during the game and once after the game. Now he’s been full of power. The reason was not that there was frost in the game today, Lehkonen says and laughs.
– Even though he had a hard night tonight, I think he’ll bounce back. Pretty determined, he left the hall earlier here.
Appreciation for Tampa’s delay tactics
Rantanen deserves praise from expert Lehkonen for his performance despite the loss.
– He already broke the final record records here and will continue to score, Lehkonen piled up Rantanen’s reliability.
Equally, when he gave the crab to his son and Rantanen’s chain, he gives it to the entire Colorado team. The third match was a clear dive from Avalanche compared to the previous two games.
– Colorado even had overconfidence in the third game. They should have smelled this situation that came to light and completely destroyed Tampa’s opportunities. They showed that little slip in their defense, so yes Tampa Bay from such a place will decide immediately, he says.
According to him, the game was especially about patience and lack of it. Tampa Bay head coach Jon Cooperin game plan Puri for the latter for Colorado players.
– He had made it clear to his players that the team should try to delay the game in many ways and break the fast pace of Colorado already in the opening round. The players pulled the exchanges for a long time with their home exchange advantage, caused market meetings and the coaching management asked the referees to discuss it with them, Lehkonen opens.
– This was definitely the longest possible of the opening lots I saw on the spot. It took about 45 minutes. Tampa made excellent use of his position and was able to break the rotation of Colorado’s four chains. The guests could not use their speed, and some of the players began to cool down on the bench.
The slowness of the first batch was left on the Colorado skates. Tampa fired four goals in the second set and settled the match.
Watch all of Tampa Bay’s fourth installment hits in the video below.
The Stanley Cup finals will continue on Thursday morning Finnish time. Ismo Lehkonen sees that the “counter-guarantee” given by Lightning in his home trough in the series has not yet stopped Colorado’s search time to take the series to a break.
– Among the Colorado players, the interview points saw that the annoyance was really strong on the surface. However, it was possible to conclude from their words that they have strong faith in their game of momentum. If they can put pressure on the defenders of Tampa Bay, open the game effectively, and pass their game on a substitution like in Denver, then they think that should be enough to win the next game.