Stanley Cup Final: Kadri scores OT winner for Avs in Game 4
TAMPA, Fla. –
Nazem Kadri scored at 12:02 of extra time and the Colorado Avalanche beat Tampa Bay 3-2 on Wednesday night time in Sport 4 of the Stanley Cup Closing to maneuver inside a victory of dethroning the two-time defending champion Lightning.
Enjoying for the primary time since June 4 attributable to a thumb harm, Kadri skated in on Andrei Vasilevskiy and slipped a shot underneath the goaltender’s proper arm to offer Colorado a 3-1 collection lead.
The Avalanche outshot the Lightning 11-3 within the additional interval. Vasilevskiy stopped Logan O’Connor on a breakaway, and Colorado had a shot clang off the submit and one other hit the crossbar earlier than Kadri ended it.
Sport 5 is Friday night time in Denver, the place Colorado gained the primary two video games of the collection and are 7-2 this postseason.
Anthony Cirelli scored 36 seconds into the sport and Victor Hedman additionally scored in regulation for the Lightning. They took a 2-1 lead into the third interval.
Nathan MacKinnon scored on a second-period energy play for Colorado, and Andrew Cogliano tied it early within the third.
Darcy Kuemper, pulled from Sport 3 after giving up 5 targets in a 6-2 loss, stopped 37 pictures for the Avalanche.
Vasilevskiy completed with 35 saves. He has rebounded from permitting 11 targets in Video games 1 and a pair of to restrict the high-scoring Avalanche to 5 the previous two video games.
The Lightning try to develop into the primary crew to win at the least three straight Stanley Cup titles because the New York Islanders gained 4 in a row from 1980-83. The Avalanche final hoisted the Cup in 2001.
