2023 Stanley Cup Playoffs Results: April 19th

Welcome to Full Press Hockey‘s 2023 NHL Stanley Cup playoffs coverage. Each day during this first round we give you results of playoff games, along with an analysis. The playoffs start on Monday April 17th. Be sure to stay current with all the action right here.

2023 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs Results

NHL Playoff Schedule For April 19, 2023:

MATCHUP		TIME	TV
New York East 1st Round – Game 2, CAR leads series 1-0	@  Carolina	4:00 PM
Florida East 1st Round – Game 2, BOS leads series 1-0	@  Boston	4:30 PM
Minnesota West 1st Round – Game 2, MIN leads series 1-0	@  Dallas	6:30 PM
Los Angeles West 1st Round – Game 2, LA leads series 1-0	@  Edmonton	7:00 PM

NHL Playoffs Scores for April 19, 2023:

HURRICANES LEAD SERIES 2-0

SERIES TIED 1-1

SERIES TIED 1-1

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New York Islanders vs Carolina Hurricanes

The Carolina Hurricanes had gone from leading by two goals to trailing midway through the final period, suddenly facing the prospect of losing their home-ice advantage against the New York Islanders.

Jaccob Slavin, Jesper Fast and the rest of the Hurricanes turned in a steady response befitting a team in the playoffs for the fifth straight season.

Fast took a cross-ice pass from Jordan Staal and buried it past Ilya Sorokin at 5:03 of overtime to lift the Hurricanes past the Islanders 4-3 on Wednesday night, taking a 2-0 lead in their first-round playoff series.

Florida Panthers vs Boston Bruins

Brandon Montour scored twice and the Florida Panthers had four third-period goals to beat the Presidents’ Trophy-winning Bruins 6-3 on Wednesday night and send Boston to its first loss in 10 games.

The Panthers – the NHL’s top regular-season team last season – tied the best-of-seven series and head home for Games 3 and 4 on Friday and Sunday. There will be a Game 5 back in Boston on Wednesday.

Montour scored 22 seconds into the third period to break a 2-2 tie, Carter Verhaeghe added an insurance goal, then Montour scored again for Florida and Eetu Luostarinen added an empty netter with 2:25 to play to make it 6-2.

Alex Lyon stopped 34 shots, and Sam Bennett and Eric Staal also scored for the Panthers, who seemed overmatched by the NHL-best Bruins in a 3-1 series-opening loss.

Minnesota Wild vs Dallas Stars

Roope Hintz scored a short-hander on Dallas’ first shot and added two more goals after that, Evgenii Dadonov scored twice and the Stars beat the Minnesota Wild 7-3 on Wednesday night to even the first-round series at a game each.

Dadonov and Hintz each scored their second goals of the game in a 48-second span late in the second period for a 6-3 lead. That was the last of three pairs of quick-scoring goals in that middle period – two by the Stars that sandwiched an even-quicker scoring duo by the Wild.

Hintz, who also had an assist, secured his first career hat trick with a power-play goal with just under eight minutes left, when Miro Heiskanen got his fourth assist of the game. Hintz is the first player with a short-handed, power-play and even-strength goal in a playoff game since Tyler Johnson did it for Tampa Bay against the New York Rangers in 2015.

Los Angeles Kings vs Edmonton Oilers