Watch Roope Hintz’s stunning strike put a last-minute winner past Juuse Saros – Carolina’s record streak continued

Ice hockey’s NHL returned from a few days’ Christmas break with 11 games. The match between Buffalo and Columbus had been postponed due to the winter storms ravaging the United States.

The Finnish hero of the round was once again playing a brilliant season Roope Hintzas the Dallas Stars defeated the Nashville Predators 3–2.

Dallas’ experienced power forward hit in the opening set Jamie Bennand at the beginning of the second period, Nashville Filip Forsberg. Hintz took his team to a 2–1 lead with superiority after 2:15 of the second period had been played. Hintz guided the goal from the front by Jason Robertson pass by the Nashville guard Juuse Saros. Also Miro Heiskanen got an assist for this.

Jakov Trenin equalized in the second set. The third period went scoreless until the last minute, until Hintz scored the winning goal in 59:07. He did a great job for the winning goal Joe Pavelskiwho forced the puck from the corner into the goal.

– I was waiting for a suitable bouncer. When it came, I just tried to get the bet as high as possible, Hintz summed up his winning hit, according to the AP news agency.

Dallas has won 21 of its 36 matches and continues to be the top team in the Central Division and second in the Western Conference after Vegas.

Hintz has now scored 18+22=40 in 35 matches. With a scoring average, Hintz is on his way to a season of over 91 points. The 26-year-old center’s NHL point record is 37+35=72 from the previous season. Hintz has five hits in the last three games.

Swedish forward from Dallas Frederik Olofsson made his NHL debut at the age of 26 and garnered praise from the head coach From Peter DeBoer. Nashville Matthew Duchene instead was on the sidelines due to a family addition.

For Nashville, which is struggling for the last playoff spots in the Central Division, the second consecutive loss was stinging.

– Defeat always stings, but it stings more when it comes like this in the final moments of the match. It’s disappointing to lose points in a match like this, lamented the Nashville pilot John Hynes.

Carolina’s record streak continues

The top hit of the Carolina Hurricanes continues. Carolina beat Chicago Blackhawks 3–0. by Martin Necas and Jesper Fastin after the successes of the first batch, the final readings are sealed Jordan Martinook at the beginning of the final round.

Carolina’s Finnish players were left without power, but with a goal Antti Raanta stopped 24 pucks and had his first shutout of the season. In total, the shutout was Raanna’s 16th in his NHL career, which began in Chicago in 2013.

Carolina shot at the goal no less than 49 times.

The victory was Carolina’s ninth in a row, and its streak stretched to 15 games. The streak is the longest in club history, as the team already broke its previous record last week by beating the Philadelphia Flyers.

Carolina shares the title of the longest point streak of the current season with the Toronto Maple Leafs. However, Toronto’s pipeline has already been broken.

Carolina has won 13 of its previous 15 matches and lost two outside regular time. Carolina continues to lead the Metropolitan Division and second in the Eastern Conference behind the Boston Bruins.

Raanta has saved eight wins out of 13 matches. Piotr Koshetkov has played 15 matches and Frederik Andersen eight.

– It is clear that this year there have been games where it has felt like you haven’t been able to make key saves. There has been too much thinking and too much worrying, Raanta criticize yourself (you switch to another service) after a draw.

Raanta stated that now he could only focus on the moment and the next situation throughout the match.

The nine-match winning streak shares Carolina’s club record, which the team was last able to achieve in the fall of 2021. The longest winning streak of this NHL season is the New Jersey Devils’ 13 wins.

– It’s a good boost for self-confidence, but I think we don’t think too much about things like that, said Raanta about the winning streak.

Rantanen hit, but Arizona nudged the reigning champion

The Arizona Coyotes stunned the Colorado Avalanche 6-3, snapping the reigning champion’s four-game winning streak.

Coyotes’ Finnish pack Juuso Välimäki got an assist by Janis Moser to the winning goal, collected a plus-minus balance of +2 and a playing time of 17.28.

of Colorado Mikko Rantanen guided his team’s 3–5 win in the third set. Rantanen stirs in front of the goal, and by Erik Johnson the shot bounced off his body and into the net.

Rantä now has 24+19=43 performances from 32 games.

The top of the spot exchange Connor McDavid extended his scoring streak to 16 games with the goal in Edmonton’s 2–1 win over the Calgary Flames.

in Ottawa’s goal Cam Talbot stretched the path of the puck no less than 49 times, and 26 times in the third period, when the Senators defeated the entire NHL’s top team, Boston, 3–2 in a game that stretched to a winning goal contest.

The Washington Capitals are in a tough spot. It now beat the New York Rangers 4–0. The Capitals have won ten of their previous 11 games. To Darcy Kuemper the match was the third goalless game of the season.

NHL results with goal scorers from page 235 of Teksti-tv and league tables from page 237.