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2023 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs Results
NHL Playoff Schedule For April 19, 2023:
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East 1st Round – Game 2, CAR leads series 1-0 |
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4:00 PM |
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East 1st Round – Game 2, BOS leads series 1-0 |
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4:30 PM |
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West 1st Round – Game 2, MIN leads series 1-0 |
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6:30 PM |
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West 1st Round – Game 2, LA leads series 1-0 |
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7:00 PM |
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NHL Playoffs Scores for April 19, 2023:
Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | OT | Tot |
NY Islanders | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
Carolina | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
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Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | Tot |
Florida | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
Boston | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
SERIES TIED 1-1
Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | Tot |
Minnesota | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
Dallas | 2 | 4 | 1 | 7 |
SERIES TIED 1-1
Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | Tot |
Los Angeles | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Edmonton | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
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
Leon Draisaitl had a goal and two assists, and the Edmonton Oilers defeated the Los Angeles Kings 4-2 in Game 2 of the Western Conference First Round at Rogers Place on Wednesday.
The best-of-7 series is tied 1-1. Game 3 will be in Los Angeles on Friday.
Derek Ryan and Klim Kostin scored, and Stuart Skinner made 23 saves for Edmonton, the No. 2 seed in the Pacific Division.
Phillip Danault and Gabriel Vilardi scored, and Joonas Korpisalo made 33 saves for the Kings, the No. 3 seed in the Pacific.
Kostin broke a 2-2 tie 2:20 into the third period with a snap shot from the left circle. It was his first Stanley Cup Playoff goal.
Vilardi tied it 2-2, tucking the puck past Skinner’s right skate with 44 seconds remaining in the second period. It was his first game back since missing Game 1 and the final nine games of the regular season because of an upper-body injury.