The New York Icelanders are probably playing their best hockey of the season since January and they continued on this momentum on Friday, beating the flyers of Philadelphia 3-1.
Patrick Roy’s troop has won his last three games, which equals his longest sequence of the season made earlier this month, and six of his last eight. The defensive performance of his team explains part of the recent successes, having given only one goal in each of the last three parts. The slope is still steep, at the penultimate rank in the East, but the results are positive recently.
This allows the CH to keep an advance of 2 points on the flyers in 5th row of the teams drafted in an extremely tight race in the east. Philly lost two games in 24 hours.
Anthony Duclair scored his first goal in 11 games and only his second point. After a scarcity of 17 games without scoring, Brock Nelson has now scored four goals to his last seven outings.
Bo Horvat was the other scorer in the victory, while he made Sorokin made 29 stops.
Tyson FOERSTER opened the brand at 14:14 of the first period, but the Islanders overthrew the steam at the end of the commitment.
Duclair created equality with 2:52 to do. Brock Nelson had an excellent vision of the game on this sequence by passing backwards in Duclair, completely free during a fast counterattack.
Only 55 seconds later, Bo Horvat doubled the put in a descent to two against one with Matthew Barzal, who gave him the disc for his 17th goal of the season. These were the two fastest goals of the Isles this year.
In the second, Matvei Mitchkov left for an escape when Alexander Romanov split the air in the blue line, but Isaiah George was very fast to go on his pursuit and harm his work so that goalkeeper Ilya Sorokin will make an easy stop.
Brock Nelson brought the score at 3-1 to 1:57 from the end of the median period with a perfect shot between the leg and the glove of Ivan Fedoto.
Kucherov still works at full speed
-Tampa Bay’s Lightning has overcome a deficit of two goals to win 4-3 in overtime in Chicago thanks to Nikita Kucherov.
The Bols had lost two games on the road after being beaten in Montreal three days ago and avoided extending this difficult trip. They thus surpassed Boston Bruins in the third place in the Atlantic division.
Nikita Kucherov chained an 11th match in a row with at least one point for the eighth time in her career. He raised two assistance mentions before scoring the winning goal in overtime.
In defeat, Colton Dach, brother of Kirby Dach of the Canadian, scored his first goal in the NHL. The recruits Frank Nazar and the Quebecer Louis Crevier obtained their first two -point matches, each obtaining a goal and a pass.
In digital advantage, Kucherov spotted Mitchell Chaffee in the enclave to extend his sequence and open the brand to the first third.
Dach created equality, then Connor Bedard took advantage of a turnaround to give Nazar, which marked a good wrist shot.
The Hawks led only 14 Jonas Johansson’s net throws this evening, but scored three times on their first 6 to take a 3-1 advance at the start of the second period.
Nick Paul reduced the gap with 8 seconds to sell it, then Jake Guentzel forced the extension at the end of a numerical superiority.
The indiscipline cost dear to the Hawks, who were saved more than once by their goalkeeper Arvid Soderblom (36 stops), while they only set out in the third period. Tampa started the extension at 4 against 3 because of a penalty at Teuvo Teravainen for hooking Nick Paul 4 seconds from the end of regulation time and Kucherov took advantage of it.
Blackhawks head coach Anders Sorensen announced that he was going to leave Taylor Hall aside just before the game. A little later, we learned that he was exchanged at the Hurricanes of Caroline. Sick, Seth Jones was also absent.
