Dallas Stars and San Jose Sharks organized a goal celebration where the Finns excelled. Miro Heiskanen collected four assist points as Dallas won 7–6 in overtime.
Jaakko Servo,
Pertti Lappalainen
The Dallas Stars took Finnish time early in the morning with a 7-6 overtime victory over the San Jose Sharks in the hockey NHL
The Finns excelled in the match, because the Sharks Mikael Granlund hit power 1+1 and Dallas Roope Hintz decided the match in overtime.
Definitely the brightest Finnish star of the evening was Miro Heiskanen, who grabbed a whopping four assist points in the match. This is the record points scored by a Finnish defenseman in one game in the NHL. No less than three of the passes were so-called number one passes.
Heiskasen has 7+35 performances this season, and with 42 points is his team’s most effective defender.
Granlund gave San Jose a 6–3 lead in the final set. Granlund, who recently turned 32, also pitched by Anthony Duclair completed the Sharks’ 4–3 hit.
Dallas rallied behind three goals in the third period to tie the game. The team scored three goals in less than eight minutes after the half of the set. The most effective player in the match was the 20-year-old Wyatt Johnstonwho completed the hat trick and served up two assists.
He became the fourteenth player this season to reach five or more power points in a single game. At the same time, Dallas’ 2021 first-round pick became the youngest five-point scorer in Dallas club history.
Dallas head coach Peter DeBoer was not happy with his team’s performance in the six-rebound match.
– In a long series, you have to find different ways to win. The only silver lining today is that we got two really important points. We didn’t play the match we wanted to play, but we found a way and we will move forward, the experienced coach said.
In total, five players scored at least four power points in the match.
Heiskanen’s four points was the fifteenth time this season that a defender has scored four power points in the same match. of Vancouver Quinn Hughes is the only defender to pull off the feat twice in a season.
Hintz was responsible for the decisive goal of the match, who got the puck between the B points and shot it confidently past his compatriot Kaapo Kähkönen. The powder for the striker from Nokia was wet for a long time, when only one goal was scored during February. Now Hintz has already succeeded in scoring twice during March.
Dallas dominated the field events of the game. The team shot at Kähkö no less than 40 times. That was 20 shots more than San Jose.
Dallas is second in the Western Conference, two points behind Vancouver. San Jose, on the other hand, is in second last place in the conference before Chicago.