EDMONTON, Alberta — Artturi Lehkonen scored 1 minute 19 seconds into extra time, and the Colorado Avalanche rallied to beat the Edmonton Oilers, 6-5, Monday night time to finish a four-game sweep within the Western Convention finals and ship themselves to the Stanley Cup finals for the primary time since 2001.
Colorado will tackle both the Rangers or the Tampa Bay Lightning, who’ve received the previous two Stanley Cups. The Rangers lead the best-of-seven Japanese Convention finals collection two video games to 1. Sport 4 is Tuesday night time in Tampa, Fla.
Cale Makar, Devon Toews, Gabriel Landeskog, Nathan MacKinnon and Mikko Rantanen additionally scored for Colorado. Pavel Francouz stopped 30 of 35 pictures.
“Our foremost factor is simply attempting to be resilient, ensuring that each single night time we convey that very same recreation,” stated Makar, who additionally had 4 assists. “Typically it may not be fairly, however on the finish of the day we’re simply going to attempt to get the job accomplished.”
Zach Hyman scored twice for the Oilers. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Connor McDavid and Zack Kassian additionally scored for Edmonton. Leon Draisaitl had 4 assists and goalie Mike Smith completed with 36 saves on 42 pictures.
The groups mixed for six objectives within the third interval. Colorado, which began the interval trailing by 3-1 and later confronted a 4-2 deficit, scored 4 instances within the third regardless of being outshot 15-13.
“It was an awesome comeback win, for positive,” Lehkonen stated. “We have been speaking within the second intermission that we simply acquired to search out our recreation and we will pull by way of this.”
Rantanen appeared to finish Colorado’s comeback, scoring a power-play purpose with simply over 5 minutes remaining to provide the Avalanche a 5-4 edge.
However the Oilers stormed again and compelled extra time when Kassian scored at 16:38 and tied it at 5-5. Lehkonen scored early within the extra time interval. He deflected a shot from the purpose after which put the rebound previous Smith. The purpose stood after a evaluation for a excessive stick.
“Cale took the shot,” stated Lehkkonen, who scored the purpose to ship a group to the ultimate for a second consecutive yr after doing so in 2021 with Montreal. “I acquired a tip on it. It landed straight on my blade. I mainly had an empty-netter in entrance of me, so faucet it in.”
The Avalanche performed with out the injured ahead Nazem Kadri, who was harm on an unlawful hit by Edmonton’s Evander Kane in Sport 3. Kadri didn’t return after Kane despatched his left arm crashing into the boards on a success that was reviewed and known as a serious penalty. The N.H.L. suspended Kane for Sport 4. The Avalanche haven’t revealed what Kadri’s damage is or introduced how lengthy he will likely be out.
Since its begin within the N.H.L. because the Quebec Nordiques in 1979, the Avalanche franchise has received two Stanley Cups: a 1996 sweep of Florida and their 2001 victory in opposition to the Devils.
