The Hurricanes were the only team to take a 2-0 lead, beating the Islanders 4-3 in overtime.
It was another entertaining night of playoff hockey, with an excellent overtime game, a couple blowouts from teams that needed to get back in their series’, and we – almost – got another comeback win for the Kings. Let’s dive into the action.The Carolina Hurricanes looked to be carrying the momentum from Game 1 early on, with Paul Stastny and Sebastian Aho giving the Canes a 2-0 lead by the midway point of the game.
However, the Isles stormed back with goals from Kyle Palmieri, Mat Barzal, and Brock Nelson, and took a 3-2 lead and with the way Ilya Sorokin was playing, it may have been the Isles chance to tie the series. But, the Canes struck back, with Jaccob Slavin scoring with less than 8 minutes to go to tie the game and send it to overtime, which needed all of five minutes before Jesper Fast secured the 4-3 win and the 2-0 series lead for the Canes.
It was back-and-forth in the second, but the Panthers always had the lead, and then four unanswered goals in the third put the game well out of reach. Brandon Montour continues his momentum from the regular season and put up two goals in the game, while Alex Lyon stopped 34 of 37 in the win, with one of those goals against coming in garbage time.
Perhaps the most interesting choice was the decision to start Marc-Andre Fleury for Game 2 after the performance of Filip Gustavsson in Game 1. Apparently it was to give Gustavsson some rest after the double overtime win, and while some respect is deserved for trying a tandem situation in the playoffs, Fleury could not replicate the performance of Gustavsson, allowing seven goals on 31 shots in the loss.It just about went bad to worse in Oil country.
Thankfully, Klim Kostin had other plans, as he scored just 2:20 into the third period to regain the lead for the Oilers, and this time they’d hang onto it. Stuart Skinner shut the door for the Oilers in the third, and Evander Kane sealed the deal with an empty net goal to give the Oilers the 4-2 win.
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