Dallas (AP) – Miko Rantanin really took over the stars of Dallas when they needed him more against this previous team – in the third period of match 7.
Rantanen helped in the Wyatt Johnston goal, which tackles the power of power with 3:56, left before the completion of the third hats trick with empty networks, as the stars defeated two goals to beat Colorado Avando 4-2 on Saturday night to conclude the rising match of the Western session.
“We have just decided that we will not go home,” said Beit Debour, coach of the stars. “What I saw there was special.”
Rantanin, who was in the qualifiers with Avalanche in the past seven seasons and part of the 2022 Stanley Cup title, was a period of four points for the second consecutive match. He is only the second player in the history of NHL, which won four points in the third period of game 7.
“The series may have expected exactly,” said Rantanin. “I was expecting a series of seven games even before match 1. I think the belief was there with the group all the time.”
The stars are moving to the second round to confront Wenipeg or St. Louis, the first seeded, which plays 7 pm on Sunday evening. The planes will get home ice if they advance, while Dallas will start home if you face the blues.
Colorado made a score of 2-0 when Nathan McKinnon achieved a short shot only 31 seconds in the third period. This was the first goal he scored in five 7s game, but all these losses.
It was circulated twice in a period of six weeks earlier this season, first from Colorado to Carolina, then to Dallas in a deal that included an extension of $ 96 million, eight years, and Rantanin was five goals and seven assists in the series against his original team.
“A difficult year in person, mentally, difficult in general. To be traded twice, it is not interesting to circulate until once, but twice in one season,” said Rantanin, who said that the shaking line with his former teammates after the match was emotional for him.
“They are definitely my brothers. Most of them know them well and play with them for 10 years,” said Rantanin. “We are clearly enemies in this series on the ice, but I will always love them outside the ice. It is definitely emotional because everything happened quickly.”
Rantanin got the first goal of Dallas with 12:11 a shot from the middle of the circles. He linked the match in 2 in a strong play with 6:14 gone ski behind the net and took a lamptering shot that re -skiing on the defender of AVS Samuel Gerard behind goalkeeper McKinsey Blackwood. Then Rantanin closed the victory with an empty retina with 3 seconds, remaining to complete his first trick in a separate match.
“I have seen a change,” said Matt Doshene, who had two big passes.
Star goalkeeper Jake Utinger, who plays in the 7th -season game in a row, was saved. It is 3-1 in those games.
Blackwood 15 rounds stopped, including one in the second period to keep the game without goals with the right leg that fully extended to the post while Mikael Granlund tried a wide shot from the front of wrinkles.
Star coach Beit Debuer has become the first player or coach in the history of NHL to be part of nine wins 7 games. It is 9-0 in Game 7s, a record that accumulates with four different teams since 2012. The first of it came with New Jersey, and since then he has three with San Jose, Dallas and two with Vegas. The stars won a series of seven games in each of their first three seasons with them.
Avalanche has now lost seven games in a row since 2002, the last four with coach Jared Bednar. They are the only NBA or MLB team that loses seven consecutive game 7s, according to Optastats.
Bidnar said: “It is difficult because you put your heart and soul in the entire year, and the series, all, then in a good position and then slip on you.” “It is difficult because I know how difficult these men work and how bad they wanted it and this is all you really think at this stage.”
Dallas won all the four games he played against Colorado, and reached the Stanley Cup final after both the first three. They went to seven games in the final of the Western Conference in 1999 and 2000, and the stars won a series of seven games in the second round of the qualifiers raised by the 2020 epidemic inside the Canadian bubble.
Josh Manson put the AVS 1-0 team on a short goal in the middle of the second period when they got the last lucky back.
After two nights, Colorado avoided getting rid of the house when her usual goal came in match 6, she wore an audio game from a player in Dallas, Manson retreated from the list, then the back of the left Oettinger shoulder before flowing over the line.
Outinger and the stars killed a four -minute penalty during the first period when the captain Jimmy Ben got a double minor for a high stick on Valerie Nietzokin’s face in front of Colorado. Ice collapsed had three shots on the goal and missed four others.
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