The Dallas Stars broke their four-match losing streak when they beat the Carolina Hurricanes 2–1 in the Finnish team match.
Finnish forward of NHL team Colorado Avalanche Mikko Rantanen scored his 30th goal of the season when the Avalanche lost to the wild Toronto Maple Leafs 3–4.
Rantanen, who ended his streak of four goalless games, scored in the third period with an accurate wrist shot from the blue line to make the game 3–3 after patiently waiting for the perfect shooting position.
– Mikko Rantanen! Patience is a virtue!, the NHL commentators enthused.
The hit was Rantanen’s 250th in the NHL. At the same time, the Finnish star became the first player in Avalanche history to score more than 30 goals in four consecutive seasons.
Rantanen, who also collected an assist point from the match, now has a total of five seasons with more than 30 goals. The same has only been achieved in the history of Avalance/Nordiques Joe Sakic (through nine), Peter Statsny (8), Michek Goulet (8), Nathan MacKinnon (6) and Milan Hejduk (5).
From Colorado, he also steered in the opening goal with superiority Artturi Lehkonen head to the points. He played the 500th NHL game of his career.
However, the performances of the Finns were not enough to win, but Toronto increased its winning streak to seven matches birthday hero by Tyler Bertuzzi winged by a hat trick.
– I think I’ve been trying to eat too much lately. Today I tried to attack and move forward more. I would have hoped that we would still get a goal, but I can’t help it. Rantanen said on the NHL website.
Colorado is fourth in the Western Conference, Toronto in the same position in the Eastern Conference.
The Finnish stars met
The Dallas Stars broke their four-match losing streak when they beat the Carolina Hurricanes 2–1 in the Finnish team match. Sebastian Aho was, like the previous Carolina match, the only scorer of his team.
Aho made a passing run in the second set and certainly finished it 1–1. The hit was Aho’s 22nd of the season.
Dallas’ game-winning shot Miro Heiskanen from the launched counterattack Wyatt Johnston. Heiskanen also scored by Jason Robertson scored the opening goal.
Heiskanen was chosen as the second star of the match after Johnston. Aho was chosen as a three-star.
Dallas is second in the Western Conference, Carolina fifth in the Eastern Conference.
Florida Panthers also scored a goal in the round of the night To Aleksander Barkov, who tied his team 2–2 with a power play in the third period against the Washington Capitals. A solution was sought in overtime, and Florida scored the winning goal Gustav Forsling.
of the San Jose Sharks Mikael Granlund completed his seventh hit of the season from the front corner past the goalkeeper of the Nashville Predators Juuse Saros. Granlund reduced the score to 2–1 with his goal, but Nashville won the match 4–2. Saros blocked 23 shots in the match.
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