Bishop stopped all 28 shots in a 4-0, suffocating the New York Islanders in their five-game NHL Series and sending Tampa Bay to its second straight Eastern Conference finals.
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The opening goal, and eventual game victor came at 13:49 when Hedman scored his first of two goals, unassisted but aided by Tyler Johnson screening Islanders goalie Thomas Greiss.
The fantastic thing about Hedman’s numbers is that he did it, while also seeing the bulk of his ice time come against New York’s top two forward lines.
Hedman controls the series as Lightning oust the Islanders; Bishop, Johnson, Drouin and more in Scott Cullen’s Statistically Speaking.
Tampa Bay will move on to face the victor of the series between the Pittsburgh Penguins and Washington Capitals, which is now in progress. The Penguins now hold a 3-2 series lead with Game 6 on Tuesday night in Pittsburgh.
Neither Kyle Okposo (two goals, eight points) nor Frans Nielsen (three goals, six points) produced enough, but they are two of the club’s most important forwards and they will be hard to re-sign heading toward unrestricted free agency and both looking for substantial raises from their below-$3 million annual cap hits.
At least it didn’t happen on home ice. He’s thrown four shutouts in the five games, and he’s allowed one goal in 134 shots. In Game 5, he played 27:43 and scored two goals for the first multigoal performance in an National Hockey League playoff game in his career. He’s going to get even better the next however many years he plays. “We gotta find a way to win the game”. You gotta have believability and trust and hope with one another that you just continue to play within the framework that you want to play with and get the results that you get.
In Nashville, the Predators will have home-ice advantage for Game 6 of its series with the San Jose Sharks. “We just got to come out and play the way we did (Tuesday) and give ourselves a chance to win”. But this year, he’s on another level, putting his name in the running for this year’s edition of the Claude Giroux Memorial Best Player In The World (In A Given Postseason) Trophy. For Kucherov, it was his 9th goal of the postseason in the last 10 games.
Sharks goalie Martin Jones has been what the Sharks have been looking for in goal for years.
While Pekka Rinne has performed exceptionally well for the Predators all playoff long, Nashville’s defense needs to tighten up their play and help out their netminder. Yeah, good times for everyone.
Hedman plucks the puck away from Kyle Okposo, and in one single move, spins and scores. However, Tampa found a way to win both games on the road in overtime.
The 44-year-old Boucher replaces Dave Cameron, who was sacked on April 12.
SENATORS: Guy Boucher was hired as the team’s new head coach on Sunday.
But if the fact that he has been held without a point in the previous three games of the Eastern Conference semi-final is bugging the Oakville native, he isn’t letting on.
Boucher has spent parts of the past three seasons with SC Bern in Switzerland, posting a 44-29-5 record.
In Minnesota, the Wild made a decision to move on from interim head coach John Torchetti after he led his squad to a 15-11-1 record down the final stretch of the season.
WILD: Bruce Boudreau agreed to a four-year deal Saturday night to coach the Wild, giving Minnesota the most-sought candidate on the market.
Garrison’s game-winner capped a chaotic sequence that included Islanders defenseman Calvin De Haan losing his stick. “And Hedman was a monster in pretty much all of the [games]”.
So this explains how the Islanders could sweep a four-game regular season series with the Rangers and still finish behind them in the standings.
This past season, Boudreau led the Ducks to a terrible 12-15-6 record heading into the Christmas break.
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) – The Tampa Bay Lightning proving their deep playoff run of a year ago wasn’t happenstance. But advancing in 10 games is impressive, especially under the circumstances. While Stralman and Stamkos remain questionable for the start of the next round, Tampa has a decent shot of beating either Pittsburgh or Washington for a return trip to the final. To no surprise, the Islanders haven’t won any of those games.
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You would think a team who has struggled so greatly in the first period like the Lightning have over the course of the last few games would be satisfied with merely keeping the Islanders off the board for the remainder of the period.
