Tampa Bay Lightning win 3-2 over Colorado Avalanche in Game 5 of Stanley Cup final
Preserve the champagne chilled. It’s again to the slushy ice of Amalie Enviornment for the Colorado Avalanche after they failed to shut out the Tampa Bay Lightning within the Stanley Cup Closing.
The Lightning overpowered Colorado with more durable physicality, clogged the impartial zone and as soon as once more relied on goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy’s firebolt reflexes to counter Colorado’s superior pace in a 3-2 victory in Sport 5 on Friday evening at Ball Enviornment.
Coach Jon Cooper discovered a method for the Lightning to lastly bottle up Colorado captain Gabriel Landeskog and Mikko Rantanen to ship the sequence again to Tampa with an opportunity to tie it up in Sport 6 on Sunday evening.
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Ondrej Palat despatched the puck by means of Darcy Kuemper’s legs with 6:22 remaining within the third interval to interrupt a 2-2 tie and Colorado was whistled for too many males on the ice with 2:38 remaining as they had been attempting for the equalizer.
Tampa Bay Lightning left wing Ondrej Palat (18) celebrates a objective in opposition to the Colorado Avalanche with Mikhail Sergachev (98) and Steven Stamkos (91) throughout the third interval in Sport 5 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Closing, Friday, June 24, 2022, in Denver.
(AP Picture/Jack Dempsey)
Cooper had complained 48 hours earlier that Colorado’s game-winner in extra time got here with too many males on the ice, however the Avs didn’t get away with it this time.
The whistles and the breaks simply didn’t go Colorado’s method in Sport 5. Neither did the calls because the Lightning knocked the Avalanche round, with or with out the puck on their sticks.
Tampa Bay went with 4 forwards when Avalanche star Cale Makar was whistled for tripping within the second interval throughout a 4-on-4 skate. Nikita Kucherov capitalized moments later by scoring simply the second objective in 17 energy play possibilities by the Lighting within the closing.
Makar atoned with a objective early within the third interval that tied it at 2.
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The Lightning at the moment are in place to knot up the sequence this weekend again in Florida, the place Avalanche centre Nazim Kadri complained in regards to the dangerous ice earlier than scoring the game-winner in Sport 4.
Makar mentioned after that thriller that the Avalanche nonetheless weren’t exhaling, insisting a fourth win over the back-to-back champs would show the toughest to come back by.
Enjoying of their 67th playoff sport for the reason that first spherical of the 2020 playoffs, the Lightning stored alive their hopes of turning into the primary staff to win three consecutive Stanley Cups within the wage cap period.
To try this, they’ll additionally need to turn out to be the primary staff for the reason that 1942 Toronto Maple Leafs to bounce again from a 3-1 deficit to win the Cup.
One down, two to go.
