(1) Montreal Canadiens 0-4 Toronto Maple Leafs (3)
Without a solution to continuity after Monday’s game, on Tuesday night the Habs and Leafs met again at the Center Bell, home of the tricolor who sought to equalize the tie. But Toronto had very different plans for that night, and specifically pulled “plan B” to be the ones who took over the game and put the tie to the point of candy to finish it off on their own ice next Thursday (early morning from Thursday to Friday in Spain).
And it is that in front of the Matthews or Marner, was the bottom six with Spezza and Thornton or Galchenyuk in the most prominent part, along with a Nylander who in the absence of John Tavares has looked like the player he is expected to be in these two games in Montreal, the ones who got the game back on track and with him, the tie.
The Canadiens pulled everything they had to put the game on their side, but the physical waste was not enough to beat a few Maple Leafs that at least yesterday they showed credentials to at least be the main candidates of the North Division to be in the final four of the league.
Special mention for Jack Campbell who scored his first bolt in playoff.
(3) Carolina Hurricanes 3-2 Nashville Predators OT
A tie that has taken a new course since the tie traveled to Nashville after two games in Raleigh that the Canes solved without difficulty, but now the story is very different and each point of the tie costs blood and sweat.
The match started with the expected script, Siege of Saros’s goal by the Canes and the Preds looking for their opportunity to do damage, and it was the seconds who successfully started their strategy since little after halfway through the period Yakov of the Train He deflected a shot from the blue line by Roman Josi, beating a surprised Nedeljkovic in an unusual way in the form of vaseline.
Far from being daunted, the locals continued to do their thing, and just three minutes later Martin Necas noted in power play to tie the game.
The second period began with swords raised, Colton Sissons stole a puck on his own ice and launched a counterattack in which Trenin received the final pass to overtake the team again. The game seemed crossed for Carolina, especially after canceling a goal to Jordan Staal due to interference with the goalkeeper, but they did not stop trying and just when it seemed that the locals would have to activate the emergency plan by taking Nedeljkovic out of the goal, the protagonist of the Dogs, again Martin Necas with a wrapping movement the tie was manufactured.
For the third consecutive time, extra time was reached, but fate owed him a goal and also just as ugly as the one who was previously annulled at the same Jordan Steel, Y the captain of the Canes with just two minutes of play in extra time managed to introduce a loose disc in front of Saros to give the victory to Carolina and put them within a single victory of the classification.
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