The neck of Colorado Avalanche’s two wins narrowed as the NHL final series moved to Tampa Bay’s home trough. The home team Lightning flashed especially in the second round of the 3rd final and took the game 6-2. Colorado leads 2-1.
After the first two Stanley Cup finals, many NHL Followers were surprised at how much better the Colorado Avalanche, which had taken the first two finals, had been in the finals.
On Tuesday morning in Finnish time, Tampa Bay Lightning showed that it was not out of the jug hunt. The reigning champion was a rude host in his home trough and knocked out Colorado’s 6-2 reading. At the same time, it took its first win in the Stanley Cup final series.
Of the Finns, Colorado, who scored two goals, scored in the match Mikko Rantanen.
Tampa Bay entered the game strongly in his home trough as expected. The home team played more closely and actively in the top five than in previous games, putting strong pressure on Colorado’s defense from the start.
Loss of the puck, which proved to be a problem for Lightning, was again in the lead when the puck slipped to the finish line for the first time in the match. Tampa’s defense lost the puck near the blue line, Nathan MacKinnon turned the disc in the middle lane of Colorado and Valeri Nitshushkin shot it to the finish.
However, Tampa Bay was saved as head coach Jon Cooperin a challenge by the team revealed that the puck crossed the blue line a few cents before the goal.
In the video below, you can see how narrowly the puck crossed the blue line in a discarded hit in Colorado.
However, Colorado took the lead Gabriel Landeskogin with paint. The home team did not paralyze, but responded Anthony Cirellin leveling paint and eventually took the lead for the first time during the series Ondrej Palatin by hitting. Palat hit Tampa’s top players Nikita Kutsherov and Steven Stamkos also flashed their awakening after priming the goal.
Tampa’s stars woke up
In the second installment, Kutsherov and Stamkos showed that they were indeed awake. Kutsherov scored two goals in the second inning and Stamkos shot one goal as Tampa went ahead. The home team hit four goals in the second set and forced Colorado to change goals. Czech goalkeeper Pavel Francouz used to be at the finish line just over three minutes when he too had to surrender.
You can watch all of Tampa’s second batch of paints in the video below.
In the third set, Colorado clearly played more carefully at both ends of the field. However, the scoreboard showed no improvement when Tampa Bay’s goalkeeper played an excellent match Andrei Vasilevski reset the intentions of the Avalanche attackers time and time again. The home team’s meritorious blocking of shots also made Vasilevsky’s evening easier.
Vasilevsky’s pocket in particular was one of the Colorado players JT Compherwhich the Russian goalkeeper reset to three times.
You can watch the main picture of the story of Vasilevsky’s top defenses against Compher’s companies in the video.
The third batch was also colored by the melee units. Tampan Ross Colton and Coloradon Logan O’Connor fisted themselves into the shower at the end of the match.
The series continues on Thursday morning Finnish time in Tampa. will show all NHL finals live, with the broadcast of the final match of the final series starting at 3.00.