Three series of the first round of the playoffs of the Stanley Cup in the National Hockey League ended on Sunday overseas drama full of six games. As a result of these meetings, the fight for the trophy will continue to “Washington” Alexander Ovechkin and the “Islanders” Nicholas Kulemina
«New York Islanders” – “Florida Panthers” – 2:. 1 2 From (expense in the series – 4-2)
Two goals from captain “Islanders’ John Tavares led to a repetition of the events that he can hardly remember – the output of the New York team in the second round of the NHL playoffs.
The last time this happened 23 years ago, when the two-year future captain “of the islanders’ only mastered the basics of movement in space on two legs, not equipped with skates.
8000 381 days ago representatives of the Big apple won its last postseason series, and the count of their fans would continue and after Sunday’s match, if not Tavares, equalized in the final minute of the third period.
For a long time the only goal of the match remained forward Jonathan Huberdeau guests, held at the end of the first period. However, on 60 minutes, defender of “Islanders” Nick Leddy took the puck in its own zone, dragged her on the starboard side right up to the gate rivals. There ensued a battle, and if to throw Russian Nikolay Kulemina goalkeeper “Florida” Roberto Luongo managed, the close combat with Tavares him win already failed.
After 91 minutes, captain of the hosts of ice already played everything himself: first, he struck shot from the right circle face-off, then went to kill himself, but when he do not give , Tavares traveled Lyuongo gate and has delivered the puck into an empty corner of
«We will enjoy this moment, but want it to be continued, -. said the hero of the meeting. – We have a special team and we believe we can achieve something special. ”
New Yorkers the third of his four victories in the series with the “Panthers” won in extra time, and in the latter two cases, all decided already in the second overtime.
next opponent, “Islanders” in the playoffs will be the “Tampa»
«Minnesota Wild.” – “Dallas Stars” – 4: 5 (in the series – 2-4)
The audience in St. Paul saw a real thriller, but without a happy-end – their team was not able to eventually save the sixth game and “survive” in a series of . <-! place 8194745, /> sport / 2016/04/24 / a_8194745.shtml, article / incut, incut2_link ->
Guests led after two periods with a score of 4: 0, but the three goals, “savages”, abandoned for five minutes, returned to the intrigue of the match
Even after the defender of “stars” Alex Goligoski in the middle of the third period, scored the fifth goal of his. team, “Minnesota” found the strength to answer in the form of a washer Jason Pominville. It happened in less than five minutes before the final siren, and the hosts had time to do more.
And they’re almost done! After throwing Nino Niederreiter seemed that the puck has crossed the goal line before the visitors’ Kari Lehtonen reflected her guard. However, the moment of entertainment experience has shown that the goal of “Minnesota” literally centimeters separated: the washer is not completely crossed the line.
A Goligoski goal, which brought as a result of “Dallas” to win the match and the series turned out quite curious. Defender threw from a distance in the direction of the gate, and after a series of ricochets washer fell under the feet of the goalkeeper “savages” Devan Dubnyk. Seeing this, he sought out her eyes in the distance and as a result, when the bustle near the gate realized that it is necessary to take a position on the line, he pushed the puck behind the ridge line.
«Dallas» overcame the barrier of the first round of the playoffs to the Stanley Cup for the first time since 2008. The next opponent of the “stars” will be a “Chicago” or “St. Louis»
«Philadelphia Flyers” – “Washington Capitals” – 0:. 1 (in the series – 2-4 )
The only goal in the sixth meeting of rivals audience in Philadelphia saw in the middle of the second period, and, as it turned out, it was the puck crossed the hopes of their team to continue the fight for the Stanley Cup.
The author of a decisive thrust became Niklas Backstrom, who finished off a quick charge of the capital team, which participated Alexander Ovechkin and Marcus Johansson.
The Russian got the puck on the blue line, was able to keep it in the fight with a rival, forwarded to the center by the Swede Johansson, who – under the countryman throw. Backstrom snapped in touch of the right circle face-off, catching unawares not had time to move into the near corner Michal Neuwirth.
Guard Gate “pilots”, in spite of missing the washer and the fact that his team has to finish the season, is currently the best goalkeeper in the playoffs: the average per game, he missed a 0.67 goals, and its percentage of reflected throws crazy 98.1.
Before goals Bekstrema Neuwirth, after the third match of the series at the gate of the team replaced Steve Mason, did not pass for 106 minutes and 21 seconds <-.! place 8193275, /> sport / 2016/04/23 / a_8193275.shtml, article / incut, incut3_link ->
No luck “Philadelphia”, and that “Washington” on the last line there is a great player – the likely winner of the “Vezina” in this season Braden Holtby, who recorded on Sunday at his own expense a second “cracker” in this series.
In order to win back to zero and become the third star of the match (after Bekstrema and Neuwirth), Holtby took 26 shots reflect the owners of ice, including 11 in the third period, when they stormed the gates, “Capitals”.
«When you have such a goalkeeper, there is a chance to win in any match,” – praised the game goalkeeper head coach of the capital team Barry Trotts
.
«We were confident and calm, – commented on the meeting Ovechkin. – We knew that if we just play tight and with the opponents, we will score a goal or two. ”
In the second round of the playoffs, “Washington” will meet with “Pittsburgh” Evgeni Malkin.
Read the other news, materials and statistics you can on page of the National Hockey League, as well as the Group of the sports social networking Facebook and “VKontakte» .
See also:
<- the registration point in note to adfox -!> 
‘,’ comments_count_plural ‘: [' % s % s % s
No comments:
Post a Comment