The first team of NHL skates on thin ice (video)
Hockey players St. Louis Blues defeated Winnipeg Jets in the sixth first round of the North American NHL playoffs on home ice. The outcome in the four -win series is now settled at 3: 3.
Winnipeg, winner of the central group and in the regular work also the most successful league team, had a 2-0 lead after the opening two games of the first round of the playoffs. St. Louis returned and equalized to 2: 2, and the Canadian band then took advantage of the home field for 3: 2, but St. Louis extended the series to the seventh game.
St. Louis secured a little less than five and a half minutes in the second third in front of the home fans, when Winnipeg poured as many as four goals and escaped to 5: 1.
Visiting goalkeeper Connor Hellebuyck was still in the third game in St. Louis replaced after receiving five goals from 23 shots. In the end of the final third he replaced him Eric Comie.
Phil Broberg and Alexei Toropchenko they scored after a goal and Jordan Binnington collected 21 defense for St. Louis. He celebrated the 15th consecutive home match, a string that has been dragging on since 23. February. Cole Perfetti and Nino Niederreiter They hit the Canadian team.
The seventh game will be a decisive game from Sunday to Monday after Slovenian time in Winnipeg. The winner of the series will play in the conference semi -finals in the west against the winner of the only remaining series, which has delayed seven matches between Dallas and Colorado.