New York Rangers’ Kaapo Kakko recorded an assist point in front of a huge audience and Arizona’s Matias Maccelli scored two goals in Colorado’s net in the NHL round.
The NHL club Pittsburgh Penguins honored the ice hockey legend who played for the club for 11 years Jaromir Jagria By freezing his game number 68 early the night before Monday Finnish time.
Jagr, who served as the team’s captain in 1998-2001, said in his speech at the event that he has always considered Pittsburgh his home in the NHL.
– There is no question about that. When you ask anyone what they think of Jaromir Jagr, they say the Pittsburgh Penguins, Jagr sets the mood.
The Czech legend debuted in the NHL in the 1990-1991 season precisely in Pittsburgh and won the Stanley Cup with the club in his first season, as well as in the next. In 2001, he moved to the Washington Capitals and later also played for e.g. New York Rangers, New Jersey Devils and Florida Panthers.
Pittsburgh’s current star Sidney Crosby gave the Penguins a commanding lead in the opening set, but the Kings won the game Adrian Kempen with 2–1 hits in the third set. The winning goal came from an understrength. Fourth tackled Jesse Puljujärvi played six minutes in the Penguins’ three-point chain without any power points.
Jagr, who scored 1,921 power points in 1,733 NHL games, ended his career in 2018, but at the age of 52 he is still playing in the main league of TÅ¡ek.
– Jagr was already playing in the NHL when I was born. Once we played against each other in Calgary and I remember when he made a great pass to “Johnny Hockey†(Johnny Gaudreau)Puljujärvi said on Saturday.
– He is one of the best players of all time. He would still be one of the biggest and strongest players on our team. It’s really special that he can still play professional ice hockey. Playing at the age of 52 seems really far to me.
The Pittsburgh players celebrated Jagr before the game by wearing shirts with the Czech star’s game number and name and wigs matching his back hair.
Second and Maccelli for points
of the New York Rangers Kaapo Kako stretched his scoring streak to four games when the Rangers defeated their local opponent the Islanders in overtime 6–5 in an outdoor match played at the stadium of the New York NFL clubs Jets and Giants.
The match was witnessed by 79,690 spectators, which is the third largest attendance in league history.
Kakko passed the puck through the wing in the opening set To Erik Gustafsson, who scored the opening goal of the match on the fly. He scored the decisive goal of the match in overtime Artemi Panarin.
The victory was the seventh in a row for the Rangers, who are second in the Eastern Conference.
The Colorado Avalanche, who are third in the Western Conference, defeated the Arizona Coyotes 4–3. The Finns went to Arizona for points Matias Maccelliwho recorded two assists in the match.
Maccelli has collected 8+28=36 performances from 54 matches this season. of Colorado Nathan MacKinnon (1+1) stretched their streak of home matches this season to 26 matches already. This is the second-longest home streak in NHL history. There is only one more Wayne Gretzky 40 matches in a row.
Arizona is on a nine-game losing streak and has dropped to 13th in the Western Conference.