Florida has now won five straight playoff games, a new club record. In the second match of the round, the Dallas Stars tied the match wins at 1–1 against Seattle.
shows on Sunday 7.5. two NHL playoffs. First, starting at 22:15, New Jersey Devils–Carolina Hurricanes, and right after at 01:30, Florida Panthers–Toronto Maple Leafs.
The Florida Panthers rallied from a 0-2 deficit to a 3-2 win against the Toronto Maple Leafs in the second round of the NHL playoffs in Toronto to take a 2-0 lead in the series. The Finns were involved in all of Florida’s goals.
Home team Toronto started the match strongly and took a 2-0 lead in five minutes.
Anton Lundell however narrowed midway through the set when Eetu Luostarinen tackled Toronto by Timothy Liljegren off the puck at the end and by Sam Reinhart a knuckle pass sent backwards found the Finnish goal in front of the goal.
The goal was Lundell’s first in this year’s playoffs. Lundell was chosen as the second star of the match and he recorded the best power points of the match (1+1).
Panthers captain Alexander Barkov tied the match early in the second period with a wrist shot when Anthony Duclair grabbed the puck near the blue line and delivered it to the Finn. The hit was Barkov’s second in the playoffs.
After 47 seconds, Florida struck again when Luostarinen grabbed the puck from the superstar From Auston Matthewsfollowed by Matthew Tkachuk and Lundell passed the puck To Gustav Forslingwho hit Final Scores 3–2 to Florida.
– We needed a new start to the second set. We got a couple of quick goals that brought us back into the game, Barkov said (you will switch to another service).
In addition to the Finns, the Panthers’ victory is guaranteed by the goalkeeper chosen as the number one star of the match Sergei Bobrovskywho made 35 saves.
– We needed “Bob”. He kept us in the game today,” Lundell said.
Florida barely made it to the playoffs and was already in the first round with a 1-3 loss in the match series against Boston. Now, however, the team is on a five-game winning streak, which is the club’s new record in the playoffs.
– It feels like we proved that we are a good team in the previous match series. We have confidence and we know how to play the full 60 minutes. These are close games, and as we saw in the previous series, you have to play until the end, Lundell said.
Florida, which entered the match series as an underdog, has now come to the driver’s place. The team won both matches played in Toronto, and gets to play the next two matches at home. The teams next meet early on Monday.
– You couldn’t have hoped for a better start to the match series. There are still things we need to do better, we need to work even harder at home, Barkov said.
Dallas tied the wins
In the second match of the round, the Dallas Stars beat the Seattle Kraken 4–2 and tied the wins in the series to 1–1.
Returned to the rink in the previous match and scored four goals Joe Pavelski continued his scoring streak by scoring the game-winning hit in the second period. Roope Hintz got an assist Tyler Seguin 4–1 to the goal.
Hintz has a total of 5+8=13 from the spring playoffs, which equals his playoff points record from spring 2020. At that time, the Finnish forward played 25 playoff games, now he has eight.
Hintz is Edmonton’s third in points in the playoffs Leon Draisaitl and after Florida’s Matthew Tkachuk.
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