Erik Černák assisted in the success of the Tampa Bay Lightning hockey players in the third game of the NHL playoff semifinals. Defenders of the Stanley Cup won the ice on the New York Islanders 2: 1 and took the lead in the series by the same ratio.
The Slovak defender played for almost 20 minutes and scored the pass in Yanni Gourde’s opening goal in the middle of the first period, in addition to sending two shots on goal.
Goalkeeper Andrej Vasilevskij caught 27 shots. After a compensatory hit by the home team’s Cala Clutterbuck, he decided on Tampa’s victory twenty seconds before the end of the second act of Brayden Point, who scored in the sixth game in a row.
NHL Playoff Semifinals:
New York Islanders – Tampa Bay Lightning 1:2 (0:1, 1:1, 0:0)