With his 4–3 winning goal, Kaapo Kakko ended the New York Rangers’ five-game losing streak in NHL hockey.
The New York Rangers didn’t really excel in hockey in the NHL, but with an effective overpowering game, they dug out an easy 4-3 home win over the Montreal Canadiens.
The worst team in the East has yet to get a player who has recovered from a knee injury Patrik Lainetawho has already returned to Canadiens practice.
On Saturday night, in the match played Finnish time, Montreal fell into an ice avalanche, from which the Rangers scored three overtime goals.
Kaapo Kako nailed the winner from the corner of the goal in 59:36, while Montreal’s Kirby Dach reconciled the ice he got from the high club.
A few seconds before Kako’s hit, he offered the goal pass to the Finn to Will Cuy played underpowered Joel Armian near the edge, but for some reason the referees didn’t whistle for it.
From the situation that followed, the Manhattan hockey club scored the winning goal of the match. Naturally, this situation upset the Canadiens camp a lot.
For Kako, the perfect hit was the fourth of the season and the winning goal the first. In total, the man from Turku has scored 60 goals in the NHL, nine of which were game-winning goals.
Follow-up of the night’s NHL round (teletext) here, tables here.