In the ice hockey NHL, the round of all 32 teams was played for the last time this season and several Finns accumulated points in their accounts.
Playing a great season in the ranks of the Carolina Hurricanes Sebastian Aho fattened his point pot by scoring his team’s first goal. Before tonight’s match, Aho had scored 1+7 in the last five matches. During the entire season, Aho had managed to score 15+32 points before the end of the evening. Teuvo Teräväinen on the other hand, managed to score the team’s winning goal in overtime. In the end, Carolina beat the Pittsburgh Penguins in a tight match with goals 3–2.
Carolina’s victory was guaranteed by Antti Raanta, who saved 38/40 times. You can see a sample of Raanta’s skills by clicking on the main picture of the story. Raanta fights back in the situation Sidney Crosby I draw with my flipper.
Haula put the ball in
of the San Jose Sharks Mikael Granlund scored an assist when the team lost to the Ottawa Senators with a score of 4–5. Ottawa Senators goaltender Joonas Korpisalo made 14/18 saves as Ottawa snapped its losing streak of the last few games. Both teams are plowing the tails of their divisions.
Erik Haula succeeded for the New Jersey Devils against the Florida Panthers, as he accounted for his team’s 3–0 goal. New Jersey won the match 4–1. Haula, chosen as the second star of the match, scored his tenth goal of the season past the Florida keeper Sergei Bobrovsky in between the legs.
Rantanen’s pace does not slow down
NHL’s top name on the Finnish stock exchange Mikko Rantanen scored a goal and had an assist as Colorado rallied from a three-goal deficit to a commanding 5-3 road win against the Toronto Maple Leafs. Joel Kiviranta assisted on the Avalanche’s final goal.
Rantanen, who is ninth in the points market, has scored 22+33=55 points in 43 matches. Nousialainen has scored power points in seven consecutive matches.
Rantanen made a 2-3 narrowing shot by Samuel Girard bet on the return puck.
Rantanen got his pass point by Nathan MacKinnon from the winning hit.
Colorado is strongly on its way to the playoffs, as it is in second place in the Central Division with 59 points.
Eeli Tolvanen and the Seattle Kraken were on fire
Eeli Tolvanen represented by the newest member of the club, Seattle Kraken, set a handsome club record, when the team won its ninth consecutive victory at the expense of the Columbus Blue Jackets. Seattle, who visited Ohio, defeated Columbus 7–4 in the goal celebration, and Tolvanen had the honor of finishing the Final Readings with an empty net.
Tolvanen, 24, has gotten into a great mood like his team, as the Finnish winger got into the points statistics against Columbus already in his fifth consecutive match. Tolvanen, who is playing the best season of his NHL career, has scored 11+17=28 power points in 42 games.
Seattle was down 2–3 against Columbus in the second period, but at the beginning of the third period, the West Coasters had already stormed to a 6–3 lead. Quad chain Jared McCann (2+1) and Tolvanen’s Danish chain friend Oliver Bjorkstrand (1+2) were Kraken’s most powerful players.
– It’s good to note that even if we don’t play well, we’re able to switch gears during the match, as it were. It’s positive that we found a way to win, Bjorkstrand summarized on the NHL’s website.
The American playing in goal for Seattle Joey Daccord is making his breakthrough into the NHL’s goaltending elite at the age of 27. Daccord has already saved eight wins during Seattle’s winning streak, but before this season the goalkeeper had only 19 NHL games under his belt.
– Our defense has worked brilliantly, and Joey has been phenomenal. As a team, we are pulling together, but we owe him a lot, McCann said.
Saros is the number one star
of the Nashville Predators Juuso Pärssinen scored his team’s last goal in a victorious game against the NY Islanders. Nashville beat the New Yorkers 3–1. Pärssinen, who succeeded in scoring in the second consecutive match, scored his eighth goal of the season into an empty net one second before the end of regular time.
The Predators keeper was chosen as the best player of the match Juuso Saros, who recorded 24-of-25 saves. The win was Saros’ 16th of the season.
of the St. Louis Blues Kasperi Kapanen also got a mark on his belt when Kapanen made his team’s first assist for a goal. However, it was not enough, as the Boston Bruins won 4–3 in overtime.
Buffalo Sabres’ Finnish guard Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen played a good 58 minutes in goal and saved 22/23 times. Buffalo lost to the Vancouver Canucks in a low-scoring match 0–1.
The results of the NHL round:
Washington–NY Rangers 3–2
Buffalo–Vancouver 0–1
BUF: Luukkonen 22/23 defense.
Ottawa–San Jose 5 to 4
OTT: Korpisalo 14/18 torj.
SJS: Granlund 0+1
Florida–New Jersey 1–4
NJD: Haula 1+0
Winnipeg to Philadelphia 0–2
Toronto–Colorado 3–5
COL: Rantanen 1+1, Kiviranta 0+1
Montreal–Edmonton and 1–2
Carolina–Pittsburgh and 3–2
CAR: Aho 0+1, Teräväinen 0+1, Raanta 38/40 save.
Columbus–Seattle 4–7
SEA: Tolvanen 1+0
Detroit–Los Angeles 5 to 3
Tampa Bay–Anaheim 5 to 1
Chicago–Dallas 1–3
DAL: Hintz 0+2
Minnesota–Arizona 0 to 6
Nashville–NY Islanders 3 to 1
NSH: Pärssinen 1+0, Saros 24/25 saves.
St. Louis–Boston and 3–4
STL: Kapanen 0+1
Vegas–Calgary 1–3