Dallas Stars number one center Roope Hintz the high energy shows no signs of abating. In the NHL round of the night, in honor of his 26th birthday, Hintz hit two shots in the Florida net.
Hintz (game time 18:31) opened the goal taps of the match in 4:58. The last pass was served Tyler Seguin after their pencils, Esa Lindell (game time 23.07) also got an assist. Lindell had a nice plus/minus +4 from the match.
The opening set was a joyous march for Dallas, ending with a score of 4–0. The Panthers did dominate the beginning of the match, but the sloppy puck play provided the visitors with counterattack opportunities, which the Stars unfortunately took advantage of.
At the beginning of the second period, Florida changed goalkeepers From Sergei Bobrovsky to Spencer Knight. Florida’s Finnish captain Alexander Barkov did not play due to illness. Barkov scored 1+2 against Washington on Tuesday, but hasn’t been part of the team’s strength on the ice since then. Anyway, Florida was in traffic with only three fielders.
Hintz scored his second goal of the match to make it 5–1 midway through the second period.
Eetu Luostarinen (game time 14:53) had been moved to Florida’s first court. He thanked the responsibility by narrowing the score to 2-5 shortly after Hintz’s goal. Luostarinen, who switched to a winger this season, has already scored five goals (17 matches, 5+4=9).
The match eventually became exciting when Florida Sam Reinhart and Matthew Tkachuk raised their team to the end of the goal. Dallas Ty Dellandrea beat Final readings 6–4 into an empty net in the final moments.
– It was a good game from us today. It was a little sloppy, but still a win is always a win. In this series, you have to win a little differently, it doesn’t always end 2–1. We scored well and played well at the end, Hintz talked to Urheilu after the match.
Hintz finished his goal in pretty much the same style from the front top corner.
– Gets close enough, and when the bag is down, tries to put it up. At least it worked today.
Hintz is on a ten-match scoring streak with 6+9=15. In total, Hintz ranks tenth in the NHL’s point exchange, and the second best Finn, with 8+14=22. of Colorado Mikko Rantanen is the fifth of the points exchange, 11+14=25. In the plus/minus statistic, Hintz ranks ninth, the best Finn, +12.
In the “Finnish match” between Dallas and Florida, Florida also played Anton Lundell (-2, game time 21:42) and Dallas Miro Heiskanen (-1, 24.24), Joel Kiviranta (+1, 13.31) and Jani Hakanpää (+3, 21.00).
Dallas is in third place in the Western Conference. There have been ten wins from 17 games. From their three-game away tour, Dallas now took 5/6 of the available points.
In the match between Dallas and the Panthers, there was a scary moment in the second period. Dallas goaltender Scott Wedgewood was left lying in pain and holding his back after explaining Lundell’s drive-through and the subsequent situation that followed. Wedgewood had to be taken from the rink on a stretcher.
NHL reporter Craig Morgan your tweet (you will go to another service), that it was just a bad back spasm. Dallas coach Peter DeBoer commented that there is no major emergency, but did not provide more detailed information about the knowledge of his goalkeeper.
Juuso Pärssisen’s great start in the NHL
of the Nashville Predators Juuso Pärssinen, 21, has entered the NHL rinks with braces around his neck. He previously opened his goal account against the New York Rangers in his NHL debut. Now in his third NHL game, he scored 2+1 against the New York Islanders.
The booking of the seventh round of 2019 has therefore been factored into three NHL matches with the power of 3+1. At the same time, Nashville is on a three-game winning streak.
Pärssinen played on the wings in Nashville’s first team Mikael Granlund and the Swedish star Filip Forsberg. Granlund got 0+1 and Forsberg 1+1. Nashville’s number one pack, the Swiss Roman Josi caught no less than four assist points (0+4).
Pärssinen scored both of his goals with strong goal passing play. He already took Nashville to a 4–1 lead in the second set. First he was steering from the dash, and then put Ilya Sorokin the loose puck from the save into the net.
The Islanders struggled until Pärssinen scored the winning goal, 5-3, in the middle of the third period with a dominant force. Granlund shot and the puck hit Pärssisen who was working in front of the goal on the way.
The match ended 5–4. Juuse Saros stopped Nashville on 29-of-33 shots.
– I have a lot of self-confidence now. I get to play a lot, I have very good teammates, a good chain – of course I have self-confidence, said Pärssinen, who was chosen as the number one star of the match, immediately after the match.
– It’s very fun, it’s so much fun to win!
Lehkonen decided in overtime
Finnish successes were seen in Raleigh, North Carolina, when the Carolina Hurricanes and the reigning league champion Coloardo Avalanche met. In actual game time, goals were scored in shifts.
Sebastian Aho equalized to 1–1 when the second set had been played on 7.14. Aho has 8+10=18 performances from 17 matches.
The match was decided by Colorado Artturi Lehkonen, when overtime was just under two minutes behind. Colorado won 3–2.
The league champions did not have an easy time in the match, as Carolina shot at the visitors’ goal up to 48 times. Colorado had only 15 shots. Carolina’s goal was guarded throughout the match Antti Raantawho made 12 saves.
Selänte and Numminen’s shirts to the ceiling in Winnipeg
In the match between Florida and Dallas, the person elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame was also honored on Monday Roberto Luongo. The two-time Olympic champion made 489 saves in his career in the NHL. Luongo’s number one game number is frozen on the ceiling of Florida’s home arena.
In Winnipeg, instead, there was respect Teppo Numminen and Teemu Selänten great NHL careers. The Jets put Selänte’s number 13 and Numminen’s number 27 on the roof of their hall. The numbers are not removed from use in the club, but the two were named to the club’s gallery of honor.
Selänne played in Winnipeg from 1992 to 1996. He set a rookie scoring record of 76 in his opening season, which has easily stood ever since. Selänne won the Stanley Cup in Anaheim, and the Ducks have frozen Selänne’s game number 8.
Numminen played in Winnipeg from 1988 to 1996, until the then Jets became the Phoenix Coyotes. In Arizona, Numminen 27 has been frozen.
All results and scorers of last night’s NHL round from this link, Finnish statistics here and standings here.