Korpisalo’s poor performance at the goal makes Merzlikin enter – the Latvian repels 100% of the throw

Elvis Merzļikins | Foto: Russell LaBounty-USA TODAY Sports

Last night in the National Hockey League (NHL) at the time of the game was Elvis Merzlikins, whose represented the Columbia “Blue Jackets” with a score of 3: 6 in the Dallas “Stars”. Merzlikins came on, Jonas Korpisalo had to leave the fray.

Korpisalo started the game at the Blue Jackets goal, but he conceded five puck in 33 minutes and 44 seconds. Soms repelled 18 of 23 opponents’ shots (78.3%), but the coaches were forced to replace him due to such performance.

Merzlikkin went into the goal, playing for 24 minutes and 37 seconds, during which time he repelled all nine opponents’ shots. Elvis were substituted for the sixth player of the game in the last minutes, the Dalasai throwing the puck into the empty goal.

Patrick Laine, who remained, made his debut in the Blue Jackets dry, but the home scores were scored by Seth Jones, Mikhail Grigorenko and Dean Cookan, while Joe Pavelsky, who had four performance points, shone in the Stars. Pavelskis scored two goals, but him with goliem supplemented by Jamie Ben, Denis Gurianov, Radek Fax and Alexander Radulov.

This game has undermined Korpisalo’s seasonal averages. He repelled 91.8% of throws in six games, while Merzlikin has 91.3% of reps. If at the beginning of the season Korpisalo’s individual statistics were much better, now the situation has leveled off.

“Blue Jackets” suffered two failures in a row, but already on February 5 at 2:00 Columbus will have the opportunity to revenge against the Stars by meeting again.

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