No first-round playoff series has yet decided hockey in the NHL. Toronto’s name-strong crew is just one loss away from the summer break.
Pertti Lappalainen,
STT Sports
Listen to the latest episode of the Ikan änäri podcast below or directly from Areena. The topic, among other things, is the physicality of the first playoff round.
History seems to repeat itself.
Toronto’s star-studded team lost to Boston 1-3 at home and is also losing the NHL first round playoff series.
The high-paid superstars have only won one playoff series in the last ten years or so. The team lost two consecutive first-round series to Boston in 2018 and 2019.
In last night’s game, Boston was again able to keep Toronto almost completely out of the best scoring positions. There was no information about the attacking game that excelled in the regular season. The number one star caused more gray hairs for the home team by Auston Matthews withdrawing from the match at the second break due to illness.
Konkar striker James Van Riemsdyk took Boston to a 1–0 lead at the end of the opening set. In the second period, the Boston stars showed their worth, when first Brad Marchand doubled the team’s lead with a victory. In the last minute of the set, his pass by the Czech player David Pastrnak finished beautifully to make it 3-0 at the end of a quick attack.
Toronto’s defense tore up the goal.
by Mitchell Marner a skillful 1–3 reduction was a thin consolation for Toronto in the final set.
During the game, we saw some telling pictures from the Toronto bench. The highest paid stars include Matthews, Marner and the Swedish talent William Nylander spoke loudly about things and seemed to hold back their frustration. Marner also threw his gloves with force on the bench floor.
– I don’t think we are at all frustrated. We are grown men. We talk about tactics and we don’t yell at each other because we would hate each other, Marner assured the Canadian media after the match According to Sportsnet.
The head coach also assured the same Sheldon Keefe and Nylander.
– I didn’t feel any frustration. The players push each other forward and want to win, the head coach said.
The match series continues on the night between Tuesday and Wednesday, Finnish time. At that time, the series is interrupted for Boston at home.
The Finnish teams lost
The Carolina Hurricanes and Florida Panthers, led by the Finnish stars, failed to break their streaks at the first attempt.
The New York Islanders beat Carolina 3–2 in a match that went into the second overtime. The Islanders narrowed the match wins to 1–3. Finns scored points Teuvo Teräväinen, who wonderfully assisted his team’s second goal, with which Carolina tied the game at 2–2 in the third period. Finished the goal Stefan Noesen.
The match was decided by the Islanders’ star forward Mathew Barzal, when a good minute of the second overtime had been played. The goal was Barzal’s second of the match. In the long match, Carolina shot no less than 44 times and the Islanders 35.
The teams will meet next on the night between Tuesday and Wednesday.
The Tampa Bay Lightning defeated the Florida Panthers on their home ice with a dull score of 6-3. The team already took a 3–0 lead in the first period By Steven Stamkos, by Brandon Hagel and of Brayden Point with goals. From Finns to Florida Anton Lundell was involved in making his team’s 1–3 reduction and the second one who got to the assist points was Eetu Luostarinenwhich in turn stirs in the background of the panthers’ 3-4 narrowing.
However, Kiri was not enough and Tampa scored two more goals on the Florida goalkeeper in the last period Sergei Bobrovsky behind. Tampa narrowed the wins in the series to 1–3.
The last match of the night between the Dallas Stars and the Vegas Golden Knights went to overtime in a 2-2 tie. Vegas has a chance to take a 3–0 series lead in their first home game.
Dallas already took a 2-0 lead in the match by Wyatt Johnston and Miro Heiskanen with goals. In his opening hit of the playoffs, Heiskanen showed his skills at both ends of the court. First he hung up by Brayden McNabb line shot, joined the counterattack with strong skating and ended it with a wrist shot that was accurate to the millimeter.
However, Vegas got even during the second period, when first McNabb narrowed it down and three minutes later Jack Eichel and William Karlsson ran away underpowered in a two-on-one attack. After his team’s poor field balance, Heiskanen was left with the role of extra when Eichel scored the equalizer in front of him.
Dallas fired a whopping 38 shots at the Vegas keeper in regulation time Logan Thompson.
At the end of the first extra period, Wyatt Johnston became the hero of Dallas, who shot the winning goal from a small angle just under four minutes before the end of the period.
Story updated at 9:20 a.m.: Dallas beat Vegas in the overtime.
NY Islanders–Carolina je. 3–2 (0–1, 1–0, 1–1, 1–0)
C: Teuvo Teräväinen 0+1. Islanders’ Mathew Barzal decided in 81:24.
Carolina leads 3–1.
Tampa Bay–Florida 6–3 (3–0, 1–3, 2–0)
F: Anton Lundell 0+1, Eetu Luostarinen 0+1.
Florida leads 3-1.
Toronto–Boston 1–3 (0–1, 0–2, 1–0)
Boston leads 3–1.
Las Vegas–Dallas ie. 2–3 (0–1, 2–1, 0–0, 0–1)
D: Miro Heiskanen 1+1. Dallas’ Wyatt Johnston decided in 76:23.
Las Vegas leads 2-1.