NHL playoffs: Grubauer forces seventh game with Seattle

Status: 05/14/2023 08:23 a.m

The Seattle Kraken to the German ice hockey goalkeeper Philipp Grubauer have in the NHL forced a crucial seventh playoff game.

Seattle won 6:3 (2:1, 2:1, 2:1) against the Dallas Stars, thus preventing a premature end to the season in the North American professional league and equalizing the best-of-seven series to 3: 3 after victories. The decisive seventh game will take place in Dallas on Monday.

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Grubauer shines in the second third

Grubauer parried 20 of the 23 shots on his goal, especially in the second period the native of Rosenheim shone: Grubauer fended off a shot on his box eleven times in that round, only outnumbered he had to reach behind him when Dallas made it 4-2.

With two early goals in the middle third, the hosts had pulled away to 4:1. Jordan Eberle, Seattle’s top scorer in the playoffs, scored twice and set up another goal. A minute before the end of the game, he made the decision with a goal into the empty goal.

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