defending champion Tampa Bay Lightning is in the North American Ice Hockey League NHL just one more win from returning to the Stanley Cup Finals away.
in the Madison Square Garden the guests got a 3:1 against the New York Rangers and took a 3-2 lead in the series in best-of-seven format.
A win at the home game on Sunday morning (06/12/2022, 02:00 a.m. CEST) is enough for Tampa to enter the final series. There it would be against them Colorado Avalanches to Augsburg’s Nico Sturm, who is in the finals of the Western Conference prevailed against the Edmonton Oilers.
Ondrej Palat makes the decision
New York had taken the lead and had numerous other chances to score, but conceded the equalizer and Ondrej Palat’s eighth playoff goal with less than two minutes to go to concede the decisive goal to make it 2-1.
When New York goalkeeper Igor Schesterkin took off the ice and tried to equalize with an additional field player, Brandon Hagel scored into the empty goal to make it 3-1.