Mikko Rantanen fell into a fatal freeze – Sidney Crosby joined Selänte in the all-time scoring list

Aleksander Barkov, Mikko Rantanen, Jesperi Kotkaniemi and Sebastian Aho managed to score in the NHL round of the night. Patrik Laine collected two assist points.

Finland’s star players Alexander Barkov and Mikko Rantanen met in the NHL, when the Florida Panthers and the Colorado Avalance measured each other. In the end, Florida defeated the reigning champion 5–4.

Barkov scored the opening goal of the match and his tenth goal of the season by Anton Lundell from preliminary work in the first installment. Brandon Montour and Sam Bennett already increased Florida’s lead to 3–0 in the opening set. After two sets, the readings were 4–1 for Florida.

However, Colorado rallied in the third period to tie things up in about six minutes. Mikko Rantanen reduced to 2–4 in the third set and served by Nathan MacKinnon 3–4 goals. JT Compher hit the game-tying hit.

Rantanen, who collected the power 1+1, took the fatal ice in a tied situation. The Finn started to sit after a two-minute block, with about five minutes left in the game.

Florida capitalized on the superiority and Matthew Tkachuk scored a 5–4 winning goal.

Colorado is ranked 11th in the Western Conference. Florida is in the same position in the Eastern Conference.

The underpowered goals of the Finns were not enough

In the NHL round, among the Finns, Carolina also managed to score Jesperi Kotkaniemi mixed Sebastian Aho. Both scored underpowered goals against New Jersey. Kotkaniemi scored the opening goal of the match and Aho increased the numbers to 3–1.

However, New Jersey rose to a 5–3 victory with a strong finish. Devils Dawson Mercer finished the powers 2+1.

Carolina, which achieved a historic 11-game winning streak at the end of the year, is now on a four-match losing streak. The team leads the Metropolitan Division by two points ahead of New Jersey.

– Both are good teams. They use their strong moments to good advantage. I think we dominated the game until they got their second and third goals. We should have reacted better in the third period, Aho said on the NHL website.

Patrik Laine ended his five-game scoreless streak when he went 0+2 against Tampa Bay. However, Laine’s passes were a small consolation for Columbus, who lost the match 3–6.

Tampa’s Nikita Kutserov was the power man of the match, scoring twice and collecting two assists.

Columbus continues in the jumbo place of the Eastern Conference, Tampa is seventh.

Crosby back to chest

The Pittsburgh Penguins made a huge comeback against the Vancouver Canucks. Conor Garland, Brock Boeser and Quinn Hughes took Vancouver to a 3–0 lead in the first period. Evgeni Malkin, Sidney Crosby and Jason Tucker however, brought Pittsburgh to the level in the opening set. Malkin and Richard Rakell continued Pittsburgh’s scoring in the second period, after which the score was 5-3 for the Penguins.

of Vancouver Travis Dermott narrowed it down to 5–4, but the team couldn’t get any closer.

Malkin scored 2+2 for the match. With his 21st goal of the season, Crosby moved into a tie for 17th place in the NHL’s all-time scoring record Teemu Selänten with. Both have scored 1,457 points. Crosby in 1,148 matches, power 538+919, Selänne in 1,451 matches, points 684+773.

Men are ranked 17th on the all-time list.

Detroit’s goal Ville Husso made 32 saves in a 7–5 win over Winnipeg.

San Jose goalkeeper Kaapo Kähkönen drove the puck 27 times in a 4–2 win over Arizona.