NHL | St. Louis – Colorado 2: 5, Colorado won the wild game in the NHL playoffs. The Frenchman did not catch

But the match did not start ideally for Colorado. After four minutes, Parayko leaned on the blue line and goalkeeper Kuemper was not entitled. Complications for St. Louis arrived three minutes later when goalkeeper Binnington was injured. One of the main architects of the team’s triumph in the Stanley Cup in 2019 was knocked hard on the ice after a collision between his teammate Calle Rosena and Nazo Kadri, who made it to the finish line.

“I saw a free puck and I wanted to get it. I got into a collision with their player and we ended up in the goal area. But I don’t think I hit him at all, rather his defender,” Kadri described the situation. “Look at Kadri’s reputation. That’s all I can say about it,” said coach St. Louis Craig Berube. He added that the examinations are still ongoing and that he does not have more detailed information about the health condition of his goalkeeper number one.

“Binner is the heart and soul of our team. He catches incredibly and his loss knocked us down. We fell out of rhythm and it took us too long to start again. But such things happen. We have a quality team and we should have adapted better to the situation, O’Reilly commented on Binnignton’s injury.

Husso wasn’t in a hurry to leave the field as he was substituted for Logan O´Connor after 11 minutes. From that moment on, Colorado did not let the opponent into the lead, while in the middle twenty minutes, the guests ripped the net twice. First, Kadri made a clever run and then secured Avalanche’s lead from the area of ​​Lehkonen’s left circle. Shortly before the second break, O’Reilly drew hope from the point of view of the home team.

Thanks to Kuemper’s great interventions, however, Colorado did not allow any complications. The guests, on the other hand, managed to seal the triumph with two goals at the end of the match. Langeskog first established himself and sealed the score with his second goal in the Lehkonen match.

“I liked the way we played. We played duels, we did a lot of things right. There were passages where we didn’t get the puck deep into their zone, but overall we worked well. With the deployment, we had a chance. We just need to improve the ending. But the boys gave a solid performance, “said Berube.

By the way, Colorado was also injured in the match. Defender Samuel Girard managed only one substitution and was taken to the hospital after the intervention of Ivan Barbašev, who hit him hard on the guardrail.

“He caught him in the wrong position. He turned awkwardly and hit his head on the guardrail after the impact. It was tough and unfortunate, but within the rules,” Colorado coach Jared Bednar acknowledged.

For the first time in the series, his charges defeated St. Louis in regular time. They won the first match in overtime, in the second their opponents lost 1: 4. “At first we were a little nervous, but we knocked. Darcy also held us a lot, because we had several outages, especially at the end of the second period,” Bednar said of the match.