Tampa Bay took the third win of their playoff series in Florida in the semifinals of the Stanley Cup. Carolina Hurricanes, on the other hand, bowed for the first time to the New York Rangers, who took the 3rd match of the playoff series at home.
The NHL Stanley Cup playoff series saw two very different matches in Tampa and New York on Sunday night Finnish time.
First, the Tampa Bay Lightning defeated the Florida Panthers for the third time in the 3rd semi-finals of the semi-finals, the clearest reading being 5-1. After that, Carolina Hurricanes and the New York Rangers twisted tightly, but the New Yorkers took their first win of the series at home with 3-1 goals.
Lightning was sovereign in the third game of his series. Tampa didn’t give his local rival seams to control the game and went into the second installment of his spending. The team was responsible for the goals Corey Perry, Erik Cernaktwo goals shot Steven Stamkos and hit an empty Florida goal Nikita Kutsherov.
Florida’s only shot Sam Reinhart. Of the Finns, captain Alexander Barkov scored.
Florida Eetu Luostarinen injured in the opening round of the match Tampan Brandon Hagelin beating him on the back with a transverse racket so that he collided with the ends of the trough at speed. After a judicial review, Hagel received a two-minute crossbar.
You can see the situation in the Monastery in the video below.
The match series will be interrupted with 3–0 match wins for Tampa Bay, who lead the series on Tuesday morning Finnish time.
The Battle of the Rangers carried the opening victory
The New York Rangers got to play their first match at their home pitch in Madison Square Garden against Carolina Hurricanes.
Rangers took the lead in the match Filip Chytilin and Chris Kreiderin with paints. Kreider’s paint in particular was beautiful to look at, with the Rangers striker snapping an accurate wrist shot Antti Raannan guarded to the top corner of the Carolina goal.
Carolina got into the game Nino Niederreiterin with paint. The big reason for the Swiss hit was the home goalkeeper’s number one goalkeeper Igor Shestjorkin, who let Niederreitter take a light shot from his armpit to the finish. The goal was exceptionally easy for the Russian guards.
Watch the paint released by Shestjorkin in the video below.
Carolina dominated the match especially in the second set and was close to rising to the levels in the match, but Shestjorkin took several important fights as a substitute for his hacking. Pressure also continued in the third installment, but the Rangers survived it, including Hurricanes ’superiority.
Eventually Tyler Motte sealed the Rangers victory by shooting the puck into the empty Hurricanes goal.