The whole NHL team except one will end the season on a bitter note, because there can only be one Stanley Cup champion. But on Saturday, we could have our very first elimination of the qualifiers for the 2025 playoffs.
THE Ottawa senators are on the edge of the edge of the match on Saturday. Despite taking the heavily favored Maple Leafs of Toronto For overtime twice in a row, the Champions of the Atlantic division marked the winner of the match each time in the additional session. Can senators win one in front of the crowd to extend the five-game series?
Elsewhere in the support of the Atlantic, the Florida panthers won the first two games of Tampa Bay Lightningbuilding. Will it be a shorter series than a lot planned? And in the west, the Minnesota Wild will seek to extend their shocking series advance on the Vegas Golden Knightsand the shock of Western Titans continues in the state of the centenary, like the Colorado Avalanche even look at things with the Dallas stars.
Read on Overview of the game with ESPN research statistical information, summarize of what happened in Friday matches, and the Three Friday evening stars d’Arda Öcal.
Match notes
Tampa Bay Lightning has Florida panthers
Game 3 (FLA leads 2-0) | 1 p.m. and | Tbs
Having served its suspension for substances improving performance, the defender of the Panthers Aaron Ekblad is eligible to come back for this game. The well -balanced Blueler patinated 11:30 p.m. per game in the regular season, scoring three goals and 30 assists in 56 games.
The Panthers have another defender who delivered this series of the playoffs; Nate Schmidt scored a goal in matches 1 and 2, becoming the first defender in the history of the franchise with two winning goals in a single qualifying series – and these are only two games!
All eyes will be on the status of Aleksander Barkovwhich was eliminated from match 2 via a stroke of Brandon Hagel; Hagel was assessed a major five -minute penalty for the game and suspended for match 3.
Tampa Bay needs his stars And Its score depth to roll to recharge this series, with only two goals in total in two games. Goalkeeper Andrei Vasilevskiy has not been up to its typical superhuman standards so far, granting seven goals to 39 shots (save percentage of 0.821).
In the history of the Stanley Cup qualifying series, the teams that start 2-0 in a series of seven best won 86% of the time; This number increases to 98% if a team starts 3-0.
Vegas Golden Knights has Minnesota Wild
Match 4 (min leads 2-1) | 4 p.m. and | Tbs
If nothing else, this series was unique from a perspective at the start of the start; Each of the first four games will have had a different start to start once the washer will be abandoned on Saturday – 10 p.m. HE for match 1, 11 p.m. HE for match 2, 9 p.m. HE for match 3 and 4 p.m. for this one.
Most observers did not think that the savages were going to win this series. Many also did not plan that Minnesota players would be everywhere in the score ranking in the middle of Tour 1. Kirill Kaprizov is tied for the head of the playoffs with Adrian Kempe And Cam Fowler (seven points), and is tied with his teammate Matt Boldy For the goal of the objectives, with four. The current leader in the playoffs? Wild Blueliner Jared Spurgeon.
It was an unusual opening lap to Adin hill. He granted 10 goals on 57 shots, generating a percentage of stops of .825 and an average of goals to 3.78 goals. These prices were respectively prices.
While “Playoff” Tomas Hertl showed this series – up to two goals and a decisive pass – some of the other attacking standby of the knights were silent. Jack Eichel,, Mark stone And Ivan Barbashev – which has combined for 212 points in the regular season – all have a goose egg so far.
Maple Leafs of Toronto has Ottawa senators
Game 4 (Tor leads 3-0) | 7 p.m. and | Tbs
The Maple Leafs were directed by a constantly strong performance of their nucleus four of Auston Matthews,, Mitch Marner,, William Nylander And John Tavares; The quartet leads Toronto by scoring three games. Perhaps a story is rewritten before our eyes, after years of disappointment of the playoffs for this group?
A specific area where Toronto has been dominant is the power game; Their conversion rate of 55.6% leads the league in this qualifying series (and is made up, a little, for a penalty which is only 77.8% efficient).
The senators had five different goals from this series, of which Brady Tkachukwho gave everything in his first experience in the playoffs. The Ottawa captain has two goals – and four minutes of penalty, because he kept himself in the mixture whenever the action became Rowdier.
Will Ottawa stay with Linus Ullmark for the purpose of match 4? The veteran has a percentage of stops of 0.815 in the first three games – and a brand of 0.874 in his career in the playoffs.
Dallas stars has Colorado Avalanche
Match 4 (Dal leads 2-1) | 9:30 p.m. HE | Tbs
Match 3 was all about the return of the avalanche captain Gabriel Landeskog After an absence of 1,032 days. Landeskog patinated at 1:16:16 pm in the match, but did not record a point or shooting.
While the other teams are Generate historical numbers on power play This playoff series, the AV had a hard time at a conversion rate of 15.4% (fourth worse). This contrasts strongly with the regular season, when the rate of 24.8% of AVS was eighth in the league.
Tyler SeguinThe goal in overtime sealed the agreement for Dallas in match 3. It was only the second winner of the OT match of his career, after a period of 13 years (April 22, 2012).
The other good news on the Dallas front is that Mikko Rantanen – The former BC, who was acquired on March 7 – finally took his first point in the series, a decisive pass on the winner of the OT match. Have the valves opened?
The three stars of Arda on Friday evening
1. The Oilers-Tings series
UP 2-1 | 30 goals in three games
The first three games were crazy. Match 1 almost had a fully lively return, then the Kings rocked Edmonton in match 2, while match 3 saw several head changes, consecutive consecutive goals, a challenge to the failed coaches of the goal of Edmonton – which led to a goal of the power of the oilers to take the lead. Just incredible.
Nemec scored the prolonger winner in Newark to win the game for the Devils on the Cannes – and avoid lowering 0-3 in the series. This came after stays in the AHL this season, and being a healthy scratch earlier in the series.
“Objectif” Caufield had a goal and a decisive pass in the emphatic victory of Montreal 6-3 against Washington in match 3.
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Cole Caufield obtains a single shooter for Montreal
Cole Caufield obtains only once to give Canadians advance at the end of the second period.
Friday scores
Montreal Canadians 6, Washington Capitals 3
WSH leads 2-1
The Bell Center was electric for the Canadiens’ first home game for some time – and the fans were sent home very happy on Friday evening after a wild match. The two teams exchanged goals during most of the first two periods before Cole Caufield Put Montreal at the end of the second – and a fight followed which spread in the Washington bench. Although Alex Ovechkin Marked 2:39 in the third to equalize the match 3-3, the clothes shed it later with three consecutive goals, sending the “Olé!” Sing at unforeseen decibels levels. To summarize.
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Christian Dvorak helps Canadians find their heads
Christian Dvorak finds the net in the third period to help Canadians regain their heads against capital.
Devils from New Jersey 3, Hurricanes de Caroline 2 (2ot)
The car leads 2-1
Lower 0-2 in the series, the Devils increased by 2-0 in their first game at home, on the goals of Nico Hischier And Dawson Mercer. But a pair of third -time and power game objectives – Seth Jarvis And Sebastian Aho – Taken things up and the game went to overtime. Aimlessly after an additional period, the game was finished by Simon NemecThe second overall choice of the 2022 draft, which had already been a healthy stripe in the series. To summarize.
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Wryter by Simon Nemec wins him in 2ot for Devils
Simon Nemec finds the winning goal while the Devils survive the Hurricanes in double extension.
Edmonton Oilers 7, Kings of Los Angeles 4
The lead 2-1
It takes a complete effort to get up from the proverbial canvas down 0-2 in a series, and that’s exactly what the Oilers obtained on Friday. Ten different ilers struck the match sheet in it, including superstars like Connor McDavid,, Leon Draisaitl And Evan Bouchardas well as players further in programming as Connor Brown And Evander Kane. The ilers have also made the change in order to Calvin Pickard For this game, and he responded with 24 stops on 28 shots. On the side of kings, Adrian Kempe Had his fourth goal and fifth assistance from the playoffs, putting him First in the points race And tied for the first time in the goal race. To summarize.
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Connor McDavid’s empty network secures Game 3 for Oilers
Connor McDavid obtains the empty network to guarantee a Match 3 victory for the Oilers.