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Marco Rossi can strengthen Austria’s national team at the World Cup starting May 10th in Prague. The 22-year-old from Vorarlberg and his club Minnesota Wild were finally eliminated from the play-off race in the National Hockey League (NHL) on Tuesday, and their season in North America ends on April 18th.
10.04.2024 08.00
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Minnesota lost 2:5 to the Colorado Avalanche in Denver and thus lost their last, theoretical chance of promotion. The guests made up for an early 0-2 deficit with two power play goals from Kirill Kaprisow (11th) and Matt Boldy (20th), but fell decisively behind 2-5 in the middle third.
Nathan MacKinnon scored three goals and became the fourth player to surpass the 50-goal mark this season. Rossi remained without a scorer in 17:03 minutes of ice time.
Two new milestones
Two other scorers reached new milestones on Tuesday. Auston Matthews celebrated his 66th goal of the season in the Toronto Maple Leafs’ 5-2 win against the New Jersey Devils. The 26-year-old American is the first player since Mario Lemieux 28 years ago (69 goals in 1995/96) to score more than 65 goals in a season.
He also surpassed Alexander Ovechkin (65 in the 2007/08 season), who set an NHL record himself on Tuesday. The 38-year-old Russian scored in the Washington Capitals’ 2-1 away win against the Detroit Red Wings, reaching at least 30 goals for the 18th time in a season and setting himself apart from Mike Gartner, who had achieved this 17 times. Ovetschkin has a total of 852 NHL goals, he is still 42 short of Wayne Gretzky’s all-time record (894).
