Three games were played in the NHL. Montreal, Ottawa and Vancouver achieved victories.
Joel Armian the dry early season continues. The Montreal Canadiens forward still didn’t open his goal account this season as Montreal suffered a 2-3 loss to the Ottawa Senators.
However, you could get close to Armi. In the third set, the Ässät-bred misled himself into a pass, but Ottawa’s goalkeeper Cam Talbot took longer. Armia has now played his 18th match of the season without a goal. He has two input points.
Ottawa decided the match in the second period, where they scored all three of their goals, two of them on the power play. In the third period, the Canadiens wrote By Kirby Dach and Christian Dvorak too with hits on the goal.
– Our discipline slipped in the second set. The most even game was under control. Of course, I take responsibility for the punishments of the evening. The timing was not the best possible, said Dach, who took three penalties in the second period.
Ottawa extended its winning streak to three games. The team is third in the central division. Detroit, on the other hand, is fourth in the Atlantic Division.
Zuccarello was hit even when he fell
The Minnesota Wild beat the Detroit Red Wings 4–1 at home. Frederick Gaudreau struck out Minnesota’s first and last hit.
Elmer Söderblom put Detroit within a goal late in the second period, but Minnesota responded almost immediately. Norwegian striker Mats Zuccarello shot the puck into Detroit’s goal from his knees.
– It was just luck. Glad to see it went in. It was an important goal, because we went into the second period with a two-goal lead, Zuccarello, who scored his tenth goal of the season, said on the NHL website.
Ville Husso was not responsible for blocking in Detroit’s goal. The Swede who played in goal Magnus Hellberg blocked 18 shots.
Hellberg regretted Zuccarello’s goal.
– I would like to cancel such a goal. Everyone froze a little at that. I need to be faster in countering that, especially at such a crucial moment when we had just narrowed. Zuccarello’s goal took away the momentum from us.
Defender Olli Määttä was not in Detroit’s lineup due to illness.
The win was Minnesota’s third in a row. Detroit, on the other hand, is on a four game losing streak.
In the third match, the Vancouver Canucks and the Calgary Flames, who are in the 5th and 6th places of the Pacific Division, met. Vancouver was better after the winning shootout 4–3. He scored the decisive and only hit in the match for the winning goal Andrei Kuzmenko.
Ottawa–Montreal 3–2 Minnesota–Detroit 4–1
Calgary–Vancouver 3–4 yrs.