NHL | St. Louis – Colorado 2: 3, Colorado advanced to the conference finals after twenty years

Colorado was more active in the match from the beginning and overshot the opponent 39:20, but still lost after the first period. Justin Faulk opened the scoring with a shot from the ring. In the 26th minute, JT Compher called from the finish line, but a moment later he struck out of the renumbering two to one Jordan Kyra. The Avalanche turned the match around in the last ten minutes. Compher used a power play from the right circle to the closer post, and Helm decided from the opposite side.

“We were unlucky to lose,” Colorado coach Jared Bednar said. “I really liked the way we played. But they were well caught by the goalkeeper (Ville Husso) and we had a hard time making it to the finish line. It was also uncomfortable when they led again after our leveling. The boys cheered on the switch, the right words fell and they did what they had to do on the ice, and they were rewarded for it, “said the coach.

St. Louis almost had in the previous match, in which he turned the score from 0: 3, equalized in the last minute in the game without a goalkeeper and won in overtime. “It’s hard how they ended the series. But the boys fought all the time,” said Blues coach Craig Berube, who led the team three years ago to win the Stanley Cup. “We all feel that we have a good team and that we let the series run,” added striker Brayden Schenn, who remembers the team’s triumph in 2019.

St. Louis had to deal with the absence of goalkeeper number one Bin Binnington, who was injured at the beginning of the third match. And it didn’t help the home environment, where she lost all three matches to Colorado.

“We had a chance today to force a seventh duel. The whole match was held by Huus (Husso), he pulled some great hits. But it hurt us that we started sleepily. We had a problem with the whole series at home. We didn’t play from the beginning how “It was a real disappointment that we lost all the matches at home,” said Blues captain Ryan O’Reilly.

In Colorado, they were relieved to finally go through the second round, in which they finished every time of the last three years.

“We have advanced to the top four teams and it means a lot to us. Our work is not over yet, but it’s great where we’ve gotten to,” said striker Nathan MacKinnon. “We had weaker moments in the series, but we played great for sixty minutes today. Kemps (Darcy Kuemper) performed key interventions, Comph and Helmer scored important goals. We played them most of the time in the series, certainly today, and we deserved “One good reflection in the end,” he added.