At Madison Square Garden, the visitors overcame the New York Rangers 3-1 to take a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven series.
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 the Colorado Avalanche for the Augsburg Nico Sturm, who had prevailed in the finals of the Western Conference 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.