Last night there were 24 teams in action.
A big night of hockey, then.
Here are the results and highlights:
1. The magic number is now only 24
The Capitals hosted the Wild last night.
And you know what a Capitals game means: one more opportunity for Alex Ovechkin to get closer to Wayne Gretzky’s record.
Yesterday he scored. He is now only 24 goals away from surpassing 99.
Washington, however, lost and ironically, Marc-André Fleury stopped Ovi in a shootout.
Final score: 4-3.
2. Jonathan Quick plays on his head
Things are going badly in New York and the fact that Igor Shesterkin has been placed on the injured list is a sign that everything is going badly in the Big Apple.
Fortunately, the Rangers have a second quality goalie in Jonathan Quick. Yesterday, he played on his head and stopped 32 of the 33 shots aimed at him.
2-1 victory for his team.
He made several good saves.
Here they are:
Mika Zibanejad scored the first goal of the match.
It was his 700th career point.
3. A crazy game in Colorado
In Colorado, the Sabers blew a two-goal lead in the final minutes. #ClassicSabers
The Avalanche finally won by a score of 6-5 in overtime. What a disaster!
On his return to Denver, Bowen Byram scored.
Still on the visitors’ side, Jason Zucker scored a hat trick and Zach Benson scored a rather controversial goal.
The goal was indeed awarded, but that didn’t stop the Avalanche from winning.
4. Hockey players: strange men
The Maple Leafs were visiting New York and with a 2-1 Leafs victory, New York is 2-6-0 in their last eight games.
Patrick Roy will have to find a solution and quickly.
What I noticed from this meeting is the players are hilarious.
First there is Oliver Ekman-Larsson who hears voices.
And there’s Casey Cizikas at the bottom of the punishments making fun of I’m not sure who.
It’s quite comical.
It was Bobby McMann who really hurt the Islanders at the end of the match by scoring the winning goal.
He has both goals of his own.
5. Victor Hedman receives a puck to the head
At the end of the evening, the Lightning visited the San Jose Sharks.
San Jose helped CH in its playoff race by defeating Tampa in regulation time. 2-1 victory and we can say thank you to Yaroslav Askarov.
The Russian ultimately finished the match with 24 saves.
Tyler Toffoli scored a superb goal, and on net, Marc-Édouard Vlasic collected an assist in his first game since April 18.
As for the visitors, in addition to the defeat, they lost their number one defender.
Indeed, Victor Hedman received a puck directly to the head and had to leave the game.
Prolongation
– Another strong match for Nathan MacKinnon.
– Detroit escaped with victory.
– Another great stop.
– Jason Zucker leads the charge.
– The Canadian and nine other teams in action this evening.
