News – NHL: towards Tampa – Hurricanes play-off in the 1st round

NHL, 07 results.05.2021 :

Tampa Bay – Dallas :  2 – 5  (0-1 1-3 1-1)

Washington – Philadelphia :   2 – 4  (1-1 1-2 0-1)

Columbus – Detroit :  2 – 5  (1-0 1-3 0-2)

Minnesota – Anaheim: 4 – 3 ap (2-1 0-1 1-1)

Las Vegas – St.Louis :  4 – 3  ap  (1-1 1-2 1-0)

The Angels – Colorado :  2 – 3  (1-1 0-2 1-0)

Saint Joseph – Arizona :  2 – 5  (1-0 1-2 0-3)

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Four points, including two goals from Joe Pavelski, which allowed the Dallas Stars to dispose of Tampa Bay by 5 to 2. Due to this defeat, the Lightning leaves the 1st place in the Central section to the Carolina Hurricanes, who offer themselves such a title for the first time since 2006. Which means that Tampa Bay (2nd) will face the Florida Panthers (3rd) in the playoffs, who are their rivals from the State of Florida. For Dallas, victory puts them just two points behind Nashville (and Roman Josi) and it will be a hot-boiling final between these last two formations. In detail, Nashville will meet the Hurricanes 2x and Dallas will meet Chicago 2x in the coming days.

The loss of the Capitals by 4-2 against Philadelphia, which is also the 3rd in the last eight outings of the club, means that they remain two points behind Pittsburgh and 1st in the East section and have more than a two-point lead over Boston. It is the advantage of the ice that will be the stake of the last games.

The point obtained by St. Louis on the occasion of the game lost in overtime against Vegas officially allows them to win the last ticket for the PO in the West section.

Also in this Western section, the Minnesota Wild won their 5th victory in five clashes. To note that Kevin Fiala, who had been briefly injured in the lower body against Vegas, was back last night and was lined up normally (16’25 ”), especially in power-play. He finished with a record of -1.

San José lost 5-2 to the Coyotes despite a 2-0 lead to 25th and a goal of Timo Meier. But the Arizona franchise came back strong at the end and scored five straight unopposed goals. The two teams were playing a liquidation match, as they have been knocked out of the PO race for some time now.

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