The Florida Panthers managed to defeat the Boston Bruins for the second time in a row in the second round of the NHL playoffs. Florida won the match played in Boston 6–2. The series is now 2–1.
In the first round, Boston’s cult striker Brad Marchand countered your fateful return to Florida’s lineup Sam Bennett. Marchand fell on the sideline and injured himself in the situation. However, the Canadian attacker continued to play in the first and second sets.
Boston’s head coach With Jim Montgomery there was no information About Marchand’s situation after the match.
– The team will know more on Saturday, the coach said.
The Panthers, who won the previous meeting on Thursday with a score of 6–1, started scoring in the evening’s match as well. 30 year old Evan Rodrigues shot the visiting team into a 1–0 lead after eight minutes of play.
During the second period, Florida already took a 3–0 lead Vladimir Tarasenko and Carter Verhaeghen with superiority goals. Captain Alexander Barkov recorded an assist on the latter hit.
There was exactly one minute between Tarasenko’s and Verhaeghe’s goals, which is the fifth fastest time between two goals in the playoffs in the team’s club history.
Tarasenko said in the interview after the match that these goals were the most important for the match.
– Big moment of the game. We talk a lot about building momentum. It is important to stay focused, It was reported in the Miami Herald.
At the beginning of the third period, Boston’s Czech striker Jakub Lauko got a questionable freeze by the Florida guard Sergei Bobrovsky blocking, which angered the home team’s supporters.
At TD Garden, they joined the shout.
– Judge, you are bad!
Things were also thrown onto the ice, for example water bottles were thrown onto the field by fans.
A minute from now and Brandon Montour moved the match to 4–0 with superiority Matthew Tkachuk and Barkov’s passes.
Florida’s Finnish captain is now on a four-game point streak. Barkov has captured power points 4+6=10 in them.
However, the home team Bruins got into the game and narrowed down first Lauko and then the Canadian By Jake DeBrusk by situation 2–4.
However, the letter from Boston fell short. The Panthers who broke the 50-goal mark in the regular season Sam Reinhart hit the empty Boston net just under a minute and a half after Debruski’s goal.
Rodrigues hit one more time to complete the Final Score 6-2 in favor of Florida. Finnish striker Eetu Luostarinen grabbed a layup. The goal was also Florida’s fourth power play goal of the match.
The team has previously struggled in the playoffs with the ineffectiveness of their possession game, but in the third match of the series, they succeeded in playing in special situations excellently.
Bennett was happy for his team’s superior play after the match.
– It was a huge opportunity for us. We knew that. In the playoffs, power play goals can sometimes be hard to come by.
Also the main pilot of the team Paul Maurice was satisfied.
– Our goal expectations in the possession game have been very, very high, so it has only been a matter of time (when the net swings). We’ll be fine if we do things right over and over again.
Like the previous match, Florida also defended strongly. Bobrovsky, who saved the Panthers’ goal, had only 14 saves in the match.
Boston head coach Montgomery cleaned himself after the game.
– We’ve had a couple of games where we’ve started slowly and haven’t had any attacks. I need to give the players a better game plan. Florida was significantly better than us.
Tkachuk’s three assists for Florida became the eighth-fastest American player ever to reach the 50-point mark in a career NHL playoff game. It took only 55 games for the Yankee forward to achieve this.
Florida and Boston meet again Finnish time on Monday morning.
Ian Cole as a warrior of misfortune
The second game of the night in the playoff round between the Vancouver Canucks and the Edmonton Oilers ended with a 4-3 overtime victory for Edmonton.
The Canucks, who won the first match of the series, started the match with the Swedish star Elias Petterson hitting between the posts.
A moment later, the Oilers’ German striker Leon Draisaitl shot to make the situation 1–1.
In the second set, the home team continued to score in turns by Brock Boeser making the score 2–1.
Oilers’ Swedish defenseman Mattias Ekholm hit a moment later, leveling the score at 2–2.
Nikita Zadorov hit yet another at the end of the second period from Vancouver. This was the situation at the start of the third set: Vancouver three, Edmonton two.
The final set saw one hit when the Oilers superstar Connor McDavid surprised the home team’s goal with his guards by Arturs Silovs.
The first overtime was played for just over five minutes and it was time for the Oilers to celebrate. 24-year-old Canuck defender Evan Bouchard managed to score when Draisaitl and McDavid started.
Vancouver defender Ian Cole was the unlucky warrior in the decisive goal, because the puck went from his platform into his own goal in the overtime.
Vancouver was the target of heavy fire in the match, as the team recorded a total of 19 blocked shots. Edmonton’s corresponding figure was seven.
The series of matches will next move to the oil city of Edmonton, as the teams face off early Monday morning Finnish time.
NHL playoff round results and Finnish successes from page 235 of teletext.
Story edited at 8:48 am. Vancouver and Edmonton game portion added.