The Finns scored five goals in the night hockey NHL round. Sebastian Aho, Juuso Pärssinen, Esa Lindell, Miro Heiskanen and Matias Maccelli scored.
Jonne Niemeläinen,
STT Sports
Finnish hockey players measured each other in the NHL when the Nashville Predators went on a raid in North Carolina. Nashville defeated the host team Carolina Hurricanes in a match that went into overtime with 6–5 goals.
The opening goal of the match was scored by Nashville with a wrist shot Juuso Pärssinen, after a good five minutes of the first period. Pärssinen also took an assist by Jeremy Lauzon about the success of the deciding set, which sent the match to overtime. Pärssinen has totaled 6+3=9 total performances this season.
Extra time didn’t last long, because the Swedish striker Filip Forsberg decided the match for Nashville after about half a minute.
Carolina was also credited with a Finnish goal from the match, because Sebastian Aho was responsible for the hosts’ 4–2 win. Aho scored a spectacular goal directly by Seth Jarvis input. The goal was Aho’s 11th of the season.
Antti Raanta was guarding Carolina’s goal, while one of Nashville’s Finnish veskars was on duty Kevin Lankinen. Raanta recorded 24/30 saves and Lankinen 26/31.
Dallas packs effective
In Texas, the Dallas Stars host the Ottawa Senators. The home team defeated the Canadian visitors with a score of 5–4.
The Dallas pack Esa Lindell narrowed the game to 2–3 in the opening set. The goal was Lindell’s third of the season.
Stars defender Miro Heiskanen it was the turn in the third period when he tied the game with a wrist shot to make it 4–4. The hit was Heiskanen’s fourth of the season.
Maccelli, who is in a power tube, scored the only goal of the match
Among the Finns, the Arizona Coyotes also got a taste of the goal Matias Maccelliwho scored the only goal of the contest as Arizona picked up a 1–0 home victory over the San Jose Sharks.
Maccelli, who was chosen as the second star of the match, scored his sixth goal of the season at the end of the second period with San Jose’s goal and guards Kaapo Kähkönen behind the back. The Finnish forward, who is on a five-game hitting streak, managed to score in the second consecutive game when he dunked in the puck from in front of the goal. Maccelli’s belt now has 6+16=22 powers from this season.
Kähkönen recorded 23/24 saves in the match.
The Sharks, who have been in a frenzy of power lately by Mikael Granlund the six-game hitting streak was broken in the struggle.
The results of the NHL round:
NY Rangers–Anaheim 5 to 1
Carolina–Nashville and 5–6
CAR: Aho 1+0, Raanta 24/30 save.
NSH: Pärssinen 1+1, Lankinen 26/31 saves.
NY Islanders–Boston hours 4–5
Dallas–Ottawa 5 to 4
DAL: Hintz 0+1, Lindell 1+0, Heiskanen 1+0
Arizona–San Jose 1–0
ARI: Maccelli 1+0
SJS: Kähkönen 23/24 defense.
Vegas–Buffalo 2–5