Columbus lost a five-goal lead in the final period, but still won in Toronto in overtime. Patrik Laine’s game ended in the second set with an upper body injury.
The season of the Columbus Blue Jackets, who belong to the bottom of the NHL, has been miserable again, but the night before Friday brought a 6-5 away win over Toronto. The match was quite strange, as the Blue Jackets already led 5–0 after two sets, but the home team managed to level the game and go to overtime.
The last two goals were scored without a goalkeeper, and Austin Matthews finished Kirin in 59.15.
Had the first three-point night of his career Kent Johnson decided the victory for Columbus in overtime. Patrick Laine scored his sixth goal of the season in the opening set from Johnson’s clever pass, but the game was interrupted early in the second set due to an upper body injury.
Laine struggled near the edge of William Lagesson with, and the Finn’s left shoulder hit the wing painfully.
Laine, who collected 6+3 points in 18 matches, has had a broken season again, because in the early season he was sidelined from games against Calgary by Rasmus Andersson grossly tackled a Finn worthy of a four-game suspension.
With its victory, Columbus also made history, because before no team has had a five-goal lead in the final set, but still won the match in the end.
– We had chances to score in the first two periods as well, but we defended a little lazily. We knew we could score five goals and we’re happy we fought our way back into the game and into the points, finishing off Toronto’s opening goal William Nylander said.
A special match was also seen in Edmonton, where the Oilers’ eight-game winning streak was snapped by Tampa Bay. The Oilers led 3-2 going into the final set, but the Lightning came away with four goals By Steven Stamkos leading to a 7–4 victory. For the best scorer in club history, the four-goal night was the first of his career.
Tampa Bay, who leads the league in points Nikita Kucherov fattened up his score bag with powers of 1+2. One of the star goalkeepers of the series Andrei Vasilevskiy had to really fumble in front of the puck no less than 53 times.
Among the Finns, Seattle was also successful in scoring Eeli Tolvanen, which put the Kraken up 5–1 at home against Chicago. The goal was Tolvane’s eighth of the season. Seattle won as much as 7–1.
Ville Husso blocked 37 pucks with Detroit’s goal, but Carolina managed to pull off a 2–1 away win. Ottawa also had to experience the loss between the posts Joonas Korpisalowhose 26 saves were scant consolation in a 2-4 loss at St. Louis. Kasperi Kapanen assisted the Blues’ third goal.
The game was St. Louis’ first Craig Beruben to replace the one named as temporary coach by Drew Bannister under.
In Vancouver, the Canucks won a clear 4–0 victory over Florida. The Panthers beat the Canucks keeper all night Thatcher to Demkowho made 36 saves in his clean sheet.
The results of the NHL round:
Toronto–Columbus 5–6 and.
C: Wave 1+0, 7.41, +2
Philadelphia–Washington 4–3 yr.
P: Ristolainen 0+0, 21.43, +1
Detroit-Carolina 1-2
D: Husso 37/39 save, Määttä 0+0, 12.41
C: Aho 0+0, 19.20, Kotkaniemi 0+0, 14.05, -1, Teräväinen 0+0, 18.20, -1
St. Louis–Ottawa 4–2
S: Kapanen 0+1, 14.47
O: Korpisalo 26/30 torj.
Edmonton-Tampa Bay 4-7
Minnesota–Calgary 3–2 vl.
Vancouver-Florida 4-0
F: Barkov 0+0, 19.43, Luostarinen 0+0, 13.56, -2
Seattle-Chicago 7-1
S: Tolvanen 1+0, 15.40, +1