It’s a bit of a shame that such a spectacular scoring streak in the NHL Western Conference Finals ended so soon.
The Canadian club failed to win a single game, even though the Oilers were closest to victory last night. Even at the start of the third period they won 4:2.
Colorado turned everything upside down thanks to the efforts of their superstars – Landeskog, McInnon and Rantanen scored the puck in six minutes, and the hosts had to recover.
Zach Kassian moved the game to overtime, and there, at the end of the second minute, it was all over. Colorado defenseman Artturi Lehkonen snagged his stick on the puck flying towards the goal, which confused goaltender Smith and calmly hit an empty corner as the puck bounced off the goaltender.
The judges went to watch the video replay and did not see the match with a high stick.
Edmonton suffers a 5-6 loss, maybe the Oilers didn’t have suspended Evander Kane today. On the other hand, Colorado does not have Nazem Kadri, who was eliminated just because of Kane’s attack.
Colorado wins the series by shutout and advances to the Finals for the first time since 2011. I have to say that both of their Finals – in 1996 against Florida and in 2001 against New Jersey – the Denver club won. Let’s see how round three ends. In the Eastern series between the Rangers and Tampa, the outcome is still far away, so the Avalanche will have to wait for an opponent for five days or even a week.
Colorado’s Cale Makar broke the club record today with 5 (1 goals, 4 goals) in a Stanley Cup game. Previously, only Risto Siltanen (when the club played in Quebec) and Peter Forsberg did.
Overall, five points in a game for a defenseman is the second most points in NHL history. Only Paul Coffey scored one more point.
The goalscoring records of Edmonton super forwards Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl are broken this season. The Canadian stopped at 33, the German one point less. Only Evgeni Malkin (36 in 2009) and Nikita Kucherov (34 in 2020) scored more in the 21st century, but their teams went on to make the final.
Colorado’s lead in the Finals means we’ll have a Russian Stanley Cup winner again, as all three teams left in the game have our player. This series has been around since 2016.
NHL. Playoffs
Edmonton Oilers (Edmonton) – Colorado Avalanche (Denver) – 5:6 OT (0:1, 3:0, 2:4, 0:1)
Goals: Hymen, 27:39, 43:55. Nugent-Hopkins, 36:57. McDavid 38:54 (bol.). Cassian 56:38. —Makar, 3:46 (bol.). Taves, 40:31. Landeskog, 48:58. McKinnon, 53:30. Rantanen, 54:47 (bol.). Lehkonen, 61:19.
Score in the series – 0:4
Source : MatchTV
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