Tampa Bay, who won the previous two championships, made a successful raid on the Florida Panthers home cave.
18.5. 06:52 • Updated May 18th. 06:54
‘s next TV matches will be shown on Sunday 22.5. The fight between Tampa Bay and Florida will be shown on TV2 at 8.15pm. As soon as the game is over, we will move on to the New York Rangers-Carolina match.
In the NHL hockey, regular season winner Florida Panthers bowed to the reigning Stanley Cup champion Tampa Bay Lightning in their opening round of the second playoff round. Tampa took a 4-1 match between two Florida teams.
Alexander Barkovin skipped by Florida led after the opening round Anthony Duclairin but Tampa made it to the second round with a hit by Corey Perry (1 + 1) and went Pierre-Edouard Bellemaren, Nikita Kutsherov (1 + 1) and Ross Colton with paints. Three of the away team’s four goals were born out of superiority. Only Bellemare’s 2-1 win at the start of the third set was the most even.
Florida made a 2-2 draw in the third set, but Duclair’s second hit of the night was dismissed after a video check, as the puck hit the net behind the goal a moment earlier, bouncing back into the game.
– The coaching team immediately told us that the goal would not be accepted, Duclair explained.
Click on the main picture of the match to see all the goals in the match and the abandoned hit in Florida.
Tampa’s goal was chosen as the best player of the match 33/34 times Andrei Vasilevski. With Florida paint Sergei Bobrovski stretched in front of the disc 32/36 times.
– We really needed Vasilevsky’s repression. Good goalkeepers give the team a chance to win, Lightning head coach Jon Cooper praised.
Kutsherov also praised Vasilevsky.
– He is our leader and our best player, Kutsherov, who was chosen as the second star of the match, burned.
Florida strikers Barkov, Eetu Luostarinen and Anton Lundell were left without power points in the match.
Four wins are required for the sequel. The next match in the series will be played early Friday in front of the Panthers home crowd. In last year’s playoffs, Tampa won their first two away games against a Florida guest.
– Tampa has a good and experienced team. They will not open the door for us. Yes, we had a place. Now we focus on the next game, the Florida coach Andrew Brunette sums.
In the 2nd round of the playoffs (4 wins):
Florida – Tampa Bay 1-4
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