By The Related Press
SUNRISE, Fla. (AP) — Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 23 pictures for his fifth profession playoff shutout, Carter Verhaeghe and Sam Bennett scored and the Florida Panthers beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 2-0 on Sunday night time in Sport 4 to even the Jap Convention semifinal collection.
Verhaeghe scored on an influence play within the first interval, Bennett added the insurance coverage rating with 7:50 left and Bobrovsky did the remainder. He’s the primary goalie with two shutouts this yr within the playoffs.
Joseph Woll stopped 35 pictures for the Maple Leafs, who took a 2-0 collection lead with a pair of residence wins and now return there for Sport 5 on Wednesday night time with the collection tied.
Verhaeghe’s aim got here on Florida’s fourth energy play of the primary interval. Matthew Tkachuk, alongside the left-wing boards, threaded a go by way of the slot and previous two defenders onto the ready stick of Verhaeghe — who slammed a one-timer previous Woll.
It was a part of a spree of pictures early for Florida. The Panthers took 21 of the sport’s first 26 pictures on internet, merely controlling play for lengthy stretches and protecting all of the motion in entrance of Woll. He held agency, repeatedly, protecting Toronto in it.
STARS 5, JETS 2
DALLAS (AP) — Mikko Rantanen had a aim and two assists, together with on the tiebreaking aim by Alexander Petrovic that was lastly confirmed after a prolonged assessment as Dallas beat Winnipeg to take lead within the second-round Western Convention collection.
Officers reviewed Petrovic’s aim for properly over 5 minutes and whereas figuring out there was a kicking movement, the aim was good after the puck went off goalie Connor Hellebuyck’s stick and into the web with 16:09 left. That each one got here off the rebound of the preliminary a shot by Rantanen, who 49 seconds after play resumed scored his ninth aim of the playoffs — all coming within the final six video games.
Sport 4 is Tuesday night time in Dallas.
Roope Hintz had a aim and an help for the Stars, and Wyatt Johnston added a late aim. Sam Metal and Mikael Granlund every had two assists.
Rantanen, who has 18 factors this postseason, had the first help on a power-play aim by Hintz solely 2:27 in for a 1-0 lead. When Dallas scored once more late within the first interval for a 2-1 lead, Rantanen was on the ice for defenseman Thomas Harley’s aim, however the assists went to Granlund and Metal.
That ended Rantanen’s NHL playoffs-record streak of consecutive objectives concerned in at 13 in a row for the Stars since Sport 5 of their first-round collection towards Colorado.
Stars goalie Jake Oettinger stopped 23 pictures. Hellebuyck, the odds-on favourite to win his third Vezina Trophy because the league’s greatest goalie, and in addition amongst three finalists for the Hart Trophy that goes to the MVP of the NHL common season, dropped to 0-4 in street video games this postseason after giving up the 5 objectives on 26 pictures.
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