EDMONTON, Alberta — Artturi Lehkonen is sending a crew to the Stanley Cup Ultimate for the next straight season.
Lehkonen scored 1:19 into extra time, and Colorado rallied to defeat the Edmonton Oilers 6-5 Monday night, finishing a 4-match sweep in the Western Conference remaining and propelling the Avalanche into the Stanley Cup Closing for the to start with time considering that 2001.
Colorado will acquire on the winner of the Japanese Convention ultimate amongst the New York Rangers and two-time defending Stanley Cup winner Tampa Bay Lightning. The Rangers guide that best-of-7 collection 2-1. Recreation 4 is Tuesday at Tampa Bay.
Lehkonen repeated his feat of final year, when he scored in OT in Video game 6 to mail the Montreal Canadiens to the remaining from eventual repeat champion Tampa Bay. He results in being the next participant in NHL background, and initial in 83 a long time, to score an overtime aim to send out his club into the championship series a lot more than once in his vocation. Toronto’s Gordie Drillon accomplished the feat in 1938-39.
“Cale (Makar) took the shot,” Lehkonen claimed. “I bought a idea on it. It landed straight on my blade. I mainly had an empty netter in front of me, so faucet it in.”
Cale Makar, Devon Toews Gabriel Landeskog, Nathan MacKinnon and Mikko Rantanen also scored for Colorado. Pavel Francouz stopped 30 of 35 photographs.
“Our key issue is just making an attempt to be resilient, building confident that each solitary night we bring that similar game,” Makar explained. “Sometimes it could not be very, but at the finish of the day we’re just likely to check out to get the task done.”
Zach Hyman scored 2 times for the Oilers. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Connor McDavid and Zack Kassian also scored for Edmonton. Leon Draisaitl experienced four helps and goalie Mike Smith finished with 36 will save.
The teams combined for 6 plans in the 3rd period — four by Colorado, which rallied from a 4-2 deficit inspite of being outshot 15-13.
“It was a great comeback earn, for guaranteed,” Lehkonen said. “We were being conversing in the second intermission that we just bought to locate our video game and we can pull by means of this.”
Rantanen appeared to comprehensive Colorado’s comeback, scoring a power-enjoy objective with just over five minutes remaining to give the Avalanche a 5-4 edge.
But the Oilers stormed back again and compelled overtime when Kassian scored at 16:38 and tied it at 5-all. Lehkonen scored 1:19 into additional time, a target that stood up just after critique for a superior adhere.
The Avalanche improved to 11-2 in the playoffs, like a fantastic 7- on the highway. Only six other teams in NHL record have strung collectively at minimum seven consecutive highway victories in a publish-year.
Colorado opened the scoring at 3:46 on a energy engage in when Lehkonen stole the puck from Hyman and fed Makar just before firing a shot by targeted traffic and in off Smith’s remaining post for his fifth intention of the playoffs.
Trailing 1- after the to start with interval, the Oilers bought going at 7:39 of the second when Hyman took a go from Draisaitl off the hurry and beat Francouz with a backhand previous the glove for his 10th intention of the playoffs.
Nugent-Hopkins gave Edmonton its first direct at 16:57 when Toews and MacKinnon bought their alerts crossed. The Oilers center jumped on the turnover and defeat Francouz on yet another backhand move — this time to the blocker aspect — with his sixth as Draisaitl, taking part in with an injured leg, was getting treatment method after hobbling to the bench.
Colorado rookie Alex Newhook was whistled for delay of sport for capturing the puck more than the glass late in the interval, and Edmonton manufactured the visitors fork out when McDavid scored his 10th intention of the postseason, and 31st level, beating Francouz off a further Draisaitl feed for a 3-1 guide with 1:06 remaining in the period of time.
McDavid and Draisaitl are the eighth pair of teammates in NHL historical past to each record 30 factors in a playoff.
Colorado obtained one particular back again 31 seconds into the third when Toews’ shot strike Oilers defenseman Cody Ceci in entrance as he was battling with MacKinnon. It was Toews’ fifth.
Hyman scored his next of the evening and 11th in general on a 4-on-2 hurry, sending a knuckling shot off a Draisaitl established-up earlier Francouz at 3:55 for a 4-2 guide.
Landeskog obtained Colorado again inside one particular at 8:58 on a mad scramble in front following Smith turned the puck more than.
Edmonton received a power enjoy with below 9 minutes to go seeking to go back again up by two, but Draisaitl’s shot off the side of Francouz’s intention was as close as the Oilers would get.
MacKinnon tied it with his 11th on a superior shot Smith with 6:30 left in regulation, location the phase for Rantanen’s go-in advance aim, his fifth of the playoffs.
But Kassian scored his 2nd, firing home a puck in the crease right after Draisaitl’s preliminary shot with 3:22 left.
Colorado bought earlier the Oilers in 4 straight despite getting rid of No. 1 goalie Darcy Kuemper and winger Andre Burakovsky to harm in Video game 1, ahead of Kadri went down Saturday. Kuemper returned to serve as the Francouz’s backup Monday.
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