Eeli Tolvanen and Eetu Luostarinen were the most effective Finnish players in the night’s NHL round.
Joel Sippola,
STT Sports
Traded from Nashville to Seattle Kraken in December Eeli Tolvanen has played a good season in a new environment. There have been successes and responsibilities.
In the round of the night, Tolvanen set his one-game points record in a Kraken shirt, when he collected three assist points. The Kraken defeated St. Louis 5–3.
Tolvanen got the second assist for Kraken’s second and fourth goals. He started too Brandon Tanev hit an empty target.
Tolvanen has scored 22 points in 39 games this season. Traded from Pittsburgh to St. Louis Kasperi Kapanen played for the first time in the ranks of sheet music. He got a good 19 minutes of ice time.
of Florida Eetu Luostarinen is one of the biggest Finnish success stories of the current NHL season. Luostarinen, who already broke his single-season point and goal record, collected 1+1 performances, when the panther pack fighting for a playoff spot defeated perennially successful Tampa Bay 4–1.
Luostarinen has scored 14 goals and 33 points this season. In the Finns’ internal points exchange, he is ninth.
In Florida’s victory, he also managed to score Anton Lundell, for whom the hit was the ninth of the season. He has scored 28 points this season.
Florida entered the match without their captain Alexander Barkov, who was sidelined due to injury. Florida has not explained in more detail the reason for Barkov’s absence. The striker was now absent for the second match in a row
The top scorer of the night was the Los Angeles Kings star player Anze Kopitar. The Slovenian striker scored no less than four goals for the Kings, when the away team beat Winnipeg in the goal race at the end of the winning goal race 6–5.
The hat trick was the 35-year-old player’s sixth in his career. Kopitar, who won two Stanley Cups with the Kings, has scored 1,120 points during his NHL career.
The Columbus Blue Jackets, who are playing through the season, got a surprise hero against Buffalo when the 27-year-old Eric Robinson scored three goals. The hat trick was the first of his career.
Robinson has scored 27 points in his best NHL season.
The results of the NHL round
Tampa Bay – Florida 1-4
Monastic 1+1
Lundell 1+0 Ottawa – Detroit 6–1
Soil 0+1 Buffalo – Columbus 3–5
Wave 0+1 St. Louis – Seattle 3–5
Tolvanen 0+3 Nashville – Pittsburgh 1–3
Minnesota NY Islanders vl 2–1
Koivula 0+1 Winnipeg – Los Angeles 5–6
Arizona – Chicago 4-1
Maccelli 0+1 Calgary – Boston and 3–4
San Jose Montreal 1-3
Ylönen 0+1