National Hockey Leagues (NHL) Joel Kiviranta, a player from Dallas “Stars”, scored three goals in Friday ‘s seventh duel in the Western Conference semifinals, including the last in extra time, helping his team advance to the conference finals.
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“Stars” won Colorado with 5: 4 (1: 2, 1: 1, 2: 1, 1: 0) overtime “Avalanche“and the series up to four wins was superior with 4-3.
The biggest character of the game became the debutant Kiviranta, who stood out in this match with a “hat-trick”.
“Stars” discovered the result of the game in the third minute, when in front of the goal in the numerical majority in the first goal hit the puck was Alexander Radulov. A minute later, Vladislav Namestnikov equalized the score, but in the half of the period Andre Burakovsky’s seventh goal “play-off” put the Colorado team in the lead.
In the second third, Kiviranta scored his first goal, but Nazem Kadri put Avalanche in the lead again in less than three minutes. In the final third of the 12th minute, Radulov realized the numerical majority again, but Namestnikov responded to his exact throw with the same.
Three and a half minutes before the end of the game, Kiviranta scored his second goal and managed to spend extra time in the game, in which he later became the hero of the series. In the eighth minute of the extra time, the Finnish hockey player got rid of the cover in front of the goal, got a pass from the shutter from Andreja Sekeras and sent the goal into the net with a quick throw.
Significantly, Kiviranta had not scored three goals in his career before, but stood out with his first “hat-trick” on Friday. Kiviranta’s place was earned only recently due to the injury of Andrew Kogliano.
Stars goalkeeper Anton Hudobin rebounded 40 of the 44 shots in the match, dealing 90.9% of the show, while Michael Hatchinson knocked out 30 of the 35 shots in the second half and handled 85.7% of the show.
“Stars” last played in the finals of the Western Conference in 2008.
Western Conference Final “Stars” Will Meet Vegas “Golden Knights“who won Vancouver with 3: 0 (0: 0, 0: 0, 3: 0)”Canucks“.
The Vegas team was 4-3 in the series with four wins.
The Golden Knights have won the last seven minutes of the game. Initially 1: 0 in the 14th minute of the third period, This Theodor, Alex Taks, stood out in the 18th minute, but Paul Styastny threw the third goal six seconds until the end of the match.
Styastney ended the duel 1 + 1, while Robin Lenner was forced to catch only 14 shots in the whole duel.
In the second half, debutant Tačer Demko repelled 33 of 34 shots, dealing with 97.1% of the show.
Toronto and Edmonton first hosted a 24-team elimination tournament, with the Stanley Cup continuing with 16 units. First, the teams qualified for the series up to three victories in the “play-off” round, but then switched to the traditional series format for up to four victories.
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