Vegas Golden Knights

change of scenery for the first round of playoff 2023, an opportunity to confirm for some, to recover for others, Saturday night gave away extra hockey minutes to fans on this weekend day. Matches on the edge of the knife in which the local factor has not finished being decisive.

Madness Match at the Canada Life Center Winnipeg to open Saturday’s day. The Golden Knights, far from feeling inhibited by the great atmosphere of the stadium in Manitoba, imposed their game and they planted at the end of the third period with a 4-1 which seemed to leave the certified match.

But we are talking about hockey and not even such a substantial advantage is definitive, the Swiss Nino Niederreiter, one of those players who usually appears when needed reduced it to two as soon as the final period began and He turbocharged the Jets’ reaction.

Even so, The Canadians could not break their former teammate Laurent Brossoit and the seconds were consumed without result for the locals, until six minutes from the end, by means of a power play Mark Scheifele put the disadvantage in a single goal. The pressure continued and finally with Hellebuyck on the bench to make room for a sixth skater, Lowry turned his fans upside down and took the game to overtime.

extra time spent their first twenty minutes with the teams swimming and putting away the clothesbut in the second, the Golden Knights came out determined to close the game already at 3:40 Michael Amadio fished a well-earned discus in the forecheck by Barbashev and claimed for those of Nevada, the victory and the leadership of the series.

Los Toronto Maple Leafs they continue burning stages in overcoming the ghosts of the playoffs past, who after the first game of the series still seemed to be present. The victory in the second game already seemed to indicate that they were in the process of exorcism, but this third game seems to confirm it.

Why Those from Ontario have been able to solve a tight match and that even thanks to Darren Raddysh’s goal for Tampa Bay, they had lost up to 45 seconds from the end in which Ryan O’Reilly asserted the desperate siege on Vasilevskiy’s goal that left a gap between his body and the post that proved fatal to the interests of his team.

With the constellation of scorers on the ice, it was to be expected that he would only do extra time to settle the game, but the minutes passed without the winning goal coming for either team. The script ended up being fulfilled, but Morgan Rielly changed his facet from assistant to scorer and left the Matthews, Marner, O’Reilly, Nylander or Tavares as spectators before the winning goal.

Until last season it was unusual to see the Bolts lose two straight games in playoff, but the crossroads that signal the rise of the Leafs and the decline of the Bolts may be taking place.

(2) New York Rangers 1-2(OT) New Jersey Devils (1)

The Devils have made the possibilities of sweep disappear in the only tie left with the possibility of it. A game played from power to power and in which the two teams went all outthe locals to play in front of their fans and be able to put the tie on the verge of victory and the visitors to get into it and continue to have chances of going to the second round.

In a stalemate in front of goal, it’s clear that The goal man of this series had to appear, Chris Kreider He arrived at the beginning of the second period to score his fifth goal of the series and put those from Madison ahead.

The Devils did not lose face to the gamebut they still couldn’t hurt Shesterkin in the five on five and they had to take advantage of a situation where he is a little more vulnerable As the power playfor what Jack Hughes would bring the tie to the scoreboard.

The third period, seen what has been seen, was already played as an overtimeseeing that any goal was not definitive, but almost and the teams were very careful not to complicate their lives. but when overtime came he changed the script because this time, the goal that was scored would not have the capacity to respond and Dougie Hamilton A great transition from the bottom of the Devils’ defensive zone culminated so that the game went to Newark and kept the tie alive.

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Only game of the night that ended after the statutory 60 minutesand not because it did not have phases of equality or alternating dominance, but because at the decisive moment, the survivors of the magical triplet of Colorado, Nathan MacKinnon y Mikko Rantanen they ended up putting the goats in the corral to those of the emerald city.

Seattle debuted as a local in playoffand the team went all out to give their fans their first victory as spectators and with the goal at 6:08 of Jaden Schwartz seemed to put that goal on track. But from there the defending champions began little by little to incline the party towards their interests and a goal from J.T. Compher in a brilliant exit defending a numerical inferiority, began to twist the night in Seattle, which became darker with the first goal of the series of Nathan MacKinnon to leave the score in the visitor’s lead before the first step of the zamboni.

To top it off, another goalscorer who was waiting appeared, Cale Makar after hooking the disc won in the neutral kick by Newhook put land in the middle. But Seattle is facing this postseason with enthusiasm and a spirit of enjoyment, and decided to accept the challenge instead, and two goals in less than 20 seconds from Oleksiak and Beniers they dissolved the visiting advantage to arrive tied in the final period.

Illusion moves mountains, but talent moves entire continents, and Rantanen and MacKinnon nipped in the bud at the start of the third period any chance for Seattle and finally put the avalanche in the lead of the series.