Artemi Panarin scored a energy-play diagram 4: 46 into time past regulation and the Unusual York Rangers beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-3 on Sunday night to arrangement to the second spherical of the Stanley Cup playoffs.
“He’s the man,” Rangers coach Gerard Fearless acknowledged of Panarin, “when it was once heading into time past regulation, I acknowledged to myself, ‘I do know he’s going to rating if we rating. If we gain the a hit diagram, it’s going to be him.”
Mika Zibanejad had a diagram and two assists, and Chris Kreider and K’Andre Miller furthermore scored for Unusual York, who clinched their third straight comeback engage after trailing 3-1 in the series. Andrew Copp had two assists and Igor Shesterkin stopped 42 shots.
“It’s a enormous engage for the team, for the organization,” defenseman Jacob Trouba acknowledged. “A gutsy performance, coming relieve yet again. That complete ‘No Quit In Unusual York’ ingredient is aesthetic excellent with this team.”
The Rangers are the foremost team in NHL playoff history to memoir three consecutive comeback wins in elimination video games in the course of the the same series.
Unusual York will play Carolina next. Sport 1 is on Wednesday. The Hurricanes beat the Boston Bruins in Sport 7 on Saturday night.
Evan Rodrigues had a diagram and an relieve, and Jake Guentzel and Danton Heinen furthermore scored for the Penguins, who had been ousted in the foremost playoff series for the fourth straight Twelve months.
“Tonight, we’re on the inappropriate ends of some bounces,” Penguins captain Sidney Crosby acknowledged. “We performed a enormous sport tonight, we performed some upright hockey in the course of the series. We didn’t gain that next one tonight that was once potentially the adaptation but I mediate even when we had those leads we silent performed the coolest methodology. Tonight was once an instance of one sport, the leisure can happen.”
Calgary Flames 3-2 Dallas Stars (OT)
In Sunday’s a quantity of Sport 7, Johnny Gaudreau scored 15: 09 into time past regulation to get interaction Calgary past the Dallas, giving the Flames precise their second playoff series engage in the last 17 years.
“You dream about stuff treasure that,” Gaudreau acknowledged, “scoring in a Sport 7 in time past regulation.”
Gaudreau got a rebound and save a attractive-angled shot over Jake Oettinger, who made 64 saves for Dallas, a franchise memoir for basically the most stops in a Sport 7.
The Flames will face the Edmonton Oilers in the Western Convention’s semifinal in the foremost postseason Fight of Alberta since 1991. The series opens Wednesday in Calgary.
“I’ve been here for nine years and never had even a sniff of a likelihood to play them in playoffs, so it’s aesthetic particular,” Gaudreau acknowledged. “It’s going to be numerous enjoyable, upright for the province, going to be numerous enjoyable for them, for us. It’s going to be a aesthetic wintry series.”
Tyler Toffoli and Matthew Tkachuk scored their first dreams of the series for the Flames. Jacob Markstrom stopped 26 shots and had an relieve in the engage. Jamie Benn and Vladislav Namestnikov scored for the Stars.