Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen blocked 25 shots in Buffalo’s goal, but Toronto Maple Leafs’ Auston Matthews scored the winning goal behind the Finnish goalkeeper.
Colorado Avalanche’s Finnish pier Mikko Rantanen dished out four assists as the Avalanche defeated the Detroit Red Wings 7–2 in NHL hockey. All of Rantanen’s passes were number one passes.
Rantanen’s serving clinic started spinning at the end of the opening set, when Colorado was down 1-2, when he served a draw position with superior strength To Nathan MacKinnonwho was not mistaken.
In the second set, you could enjoy Rantanen’s playmaking Artturi Lehkonen, who slammed the puck sent by Rantanen from behind the Detroit goal into the roof of the goal and gave the team a 3–2 lead. The hit was Lehkonen’s tenth of the season.
Towards the end of the set, Rantanen shot and Cale Makar put the loose puck in. Moments later, the Finnish star gave the puck to the blue line with superior strength and Makar scored his third goal of the match.
Rantas, who was cool with an eight-game point streak, became the second Finnish player who has managed three consecutive 50-assist seasons. Jari Kurri hauled in nine straight 50+ assist seasons from 1981-1990.
Rantanen, who collected 31+52=83 points from 64 matches, rose from 15th place to eighth in the assist market. In yesterday’s NHL round Miro Heiskanen made four assists like Rantanen.
Colorado stars in tune
Avalanche defenseman Makar scored the first hat trick of his career and the 80th goal of his career in his 297th NHL game, winged by Rantanen. He became the fastest active player to score that number of goals in the NHL.
Makaria less matches to 80 goals has last used defenders Phil Housleywho reached the milestone in 1986 after playing 296 games.
Star striker MacKinnon, on the other hand, registered 1+3 performances, extending his streak of points in home games to 31 matches. He moved into a tie for fourth place on the all-time list by Brian Trottier (season 1981–1982) and by Mario Lemieux (1995–1996) with.
The NHL’s longest home point streak is Wayne Gretzky 40 matches.
Rantanen (0+4), MacKinnon (1+3) and Makar (3+1) all reached four power points in the match. Most recently, the same has been achieved from Colorado Peter Forsberg, Valery Kamensky and Claude Lemieux in November 1997.
Joel Kiviranta got an assist Jean-Luc Foundyn to make a 7–2 hit. Also Detroit Olli Määttä got an assist from the match.
Colorado is fourth in the Western Conference. Detroit is on a three-game losing streak and in sixth place in the Eastern Conference.
Matthews settled
The Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Buffalo Sabers in overtime at home with a score of 2–1.
The Finnish keeper was on duty at Buffalo’s goal Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen, who blocked a total of 25 shots. The Sabers pack Henri Jokiharju was on the ice for more than 23 minutes, but lacked power points.
Toronto opened the score of the match William Nylander at the beginning of the second period. The goal was the Swedish striker’s 34th of the season. by Victor Olofsson the equalizer came only four minutes after Nylander’s hit.
The victory was finally decided by a man familiar to Toronto, when Austin Matthews scored his eighth winning goal of the season. Extra time had been played for a good four minutes.
The goal was the star forward’s 54th of the season. He leads the league in scoring by nine shots over the Florida Panthers To Sam Reinhart.
Toronto is fourth in the Eastern Conference, Buffalo 13th.
In the third match of the round, the Anaheim Ducks beat the Ottawa Senators 2–1.
Toronto–Buffalo and. 2–1 (0–0, 1–1, 0–0, 1–0)
B: Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen 25/27 saves (63.52 playing time)
Colorado–Detroit 7–2 (2–2, 3–0, 2–0)
D: Olli Määtta 0+1
C: Arttu Lehkonen 1+0, Joel Kiviranta 0+1, Mikko Rantanen 0+4
Anaheim–Ottawa 2–1 (0–1, 1–0, 1–0)
NHL results and standings.