The only Finnish goal of the NHL round was scored by Mikael Granlund, who accurately shot San Jose’s 1–0 goal against Minnesota.
Edmonton Oilers Ryan McLeod ended his 16-game goalless streak in the NHL in style, when the Canadian center put the puck in the Pittsburgh Penguins’ goalie Alex Nedeljkovic through the helmet into the goal from zero angle.
– McLeod has taken a model From Connor McDavid, the NHL’s X account was hyped. Edmonton star McDavid had tried the same trick before.
The Oilers beat the Penguins as much as 6–1. The Edmontonians decided the match in the second period by running away to a 5–0 lead.
Oilers Canadian forward Zach Hyman scored twice and has scored 42 goals this season, which entitles the goal exchange to shared second place together with the Florida Panthers by Sam Reinhart with. Hyman has finished with ten hits in the last eight games.
Of Oilers stars Leon Draisaitl collected 0+3 and Connor McDavid 1+1. McDavid stretched his streak in home games to 25 games. Only 29 games home point streak with cool Colorado With Nathan MacKinnon is the longest quote from this season.
Valtteri Puustinen played 14 minutes for Pittsburgh. Jesse Puljujärvi was not in the lineup against his former club. The Penguins, who are on a three-game losing streak, are in 12th place in the Eastern Conference.
The victory was the third in a row for Edmonton, which is fifth in the Western Conference.
Granlund’s accurate shot
The Minnesota Wild took a home win over the San Jose Sharks with a score of 4–3. Sharks opened the match with a power play goal Mikael Granlund in the first minutes of the second period.
Starting from the beginning of his NHL career, Granlund played just under seven seasons in Minnesota. The goal was Granlund’s eighth of the season. The attacker has scored 8+28=36 power points in 47 matches.
The last period of the match was skated to a 2–2 draw, but the home team finally beat their guests when, having already scored one goal, Kirill Kaprizov fired two more hits. According to the NHL’s website, the hat trick was Kaprizov’s third of the season.
As many or more hat tricks this season, only the top name of the goal exchange has hit Austin Matthews (6), Brock Boesser (3) and Zach Hyman.
Sharks goalkeeper Kaapo Kähkönen saved a total of 28 times. The team at the bottom of the NHL is on a seven game losing streak. Minnesota snapped its three-game losing streak and is in 11th place in the Western Conference.
NHL round results and standings.