Stanley Cup 202
2 has got its new champion!
A controversial episode occurred in NHL before the winning NHL goal, but no one will call the Avalanche’s final triumph undeserved. In Game 5 of the Finals, Tampa made an essential step towards a comeback in the series against Colorado.
The Avalanches gnawed out a victory in Denver and returned the confrontation to their native ice, where they expected to even the score in the series and transfer it to the decisive seventh game.
The start for Tampa was great. “Colorados” actively started, and already in the fourth minute, they opened the score with the efforts of their strike team.
The NHL game was played at high speeds and head-on, but the teams only had a few real chances to score. Colorado had one real equalization opportunity, but Kadri needed a patch to beat Vasilevsky.
Toward the end of the period, the guests successfully applied the imposition of shifts and locked Tampa in the zone, forcing it to drop several times in a row. Still, they could not extract any dividends from the “Avalanche”.
In the final segment of regular time, Tampa could not recover for a long time. During the first 10 minutes, “Colorado Avalanche” did not disturb Kemper at all, and the first accented throw from open ice was struck only in the 14th minute! Nikita Kucherov bitingly fired at the touch, but Kemper managed to move.
Only in the last five minutes the team started winning. They removed Vasilevsky and staged a semblance of a decisive assault, but the athletes no longer gave up on this victory, which had not been experienced in Denver’s NHL games for more than 20 years!