“Lightning” was superior at home with 4:2 (1:0, 1:2, 2:0), winning the eighth success in a row.
Girgensons, who was recognized as the third star of the game, equalized 2:2 in the 38th minute of the match.
The Latvian striker spent 14 minutes and 40 seconds on the court, of which he played in the minority for one minute and 41 seconds, had one shot on goal, used two power plays, won one of two shots and earned a positive efficiency coefficient of +1.
This season, in 35 games, Girgensons excelled with six accurate shots and two assists.
In the last seconds of the first period, Jake Guentzel put the Lightning in the lead, but in the first half of the second period, Parker Kelly and Brock Nelson made it 2-1 for the Avalanche.
By the second break, Girgensons equalized the score, but Brandon Hagel scored in the 49th minute of the game to make it 3:2 for the home team. The last goal for the winners was scored by Anthony Cirelli in the 59th minute, when the opponent’s goalkeeper had been replaced by the sixth player.
“Lightning” with 55 points in 42 games are the leaders of the Eastern Conference, while “Avalanche” with 69 points are in first place in the Western Conference and in the entire league.
The team represented by Girgensons will play the next match on Sunday night Latvian time, when they will meet the Philadelphia “Flyers” team represented by the Latvian striker Rodrigo Ābola.
