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The first goal in the first round of the Stanley Cup was won by the Latvian goalkeeper tonight Elvja Merzlikina a Matīsa Kivlenieka Columbus’ Blue Jackets, who continued to defend the team’s goal for Jonas Korpisalo, who had played several great games recently, played Tampabeja’s Lightning 3: 1 in the second match of the series and reached 1-1 in the series.
In the third game in a row, Blue Jackets head coach John Tortorella entrusted goal security to Corpisalo and re-entered Matisse Kivleniek as a goalkeeper for the match, as he suffered an injury in the fourth game of the series against the Toronto Maple Leafs in the Stanley Cup. Elvis Merzļikins. It is not yet known when Merzlikkin will be able to return to the square. “Blue Jackets” spectator Jeff Svoboda wrote before tonight’s match that the Latvian goalkeeper is not yet in good enough shape to play.
Russian striker Nikita Kucherov, behind the scoring, fired from a very sharp angle in the sixth minute from Korpisalo’s guarded goal and put “Lightning” in the lead (1: 0), but in the first third, Columbus scored two goals and took the lead. In the 13th minute of the match, “Blue Jackets” defender Ryan Moore connected perfectly to the attack and achieved a 1 – 1 equalization. Less than a minute and a half before the end of the first period, the Danish striker Oliver Bjorkstrand realized a numerical majority and put Columbus in the lead (2: 1), taking a throw from the right throw-in without stopping the puck.
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Tampabeja dominated and scored twice as many opponents in the first third (Lightning threatened Korpisalo’s defended fort 12 times in the first 20 minutes, while Columbus responded with only six shots on Russian goalkeeper Andrei Vasilevsky’s goal), but failed to turn over on the scoreboard. In the second period, Lightning continued to threaten their opponents’ goals, but the Blue Jackets slightly leveled the course of the match (14:10 throws in favor of Tampabeja) and kept the lead to a minimum 20 minutes before the last regular time.
Although Lightning also dominated the final third, taking 11 shots on the opponents’ goal and allowing only five shots to be taken on their own goals, Columbus kept his fortress intact and doubled his lead in the middle of the third period. Eight and a half minutes before the end of the regular time, the advantage of the Blue Jackets was strengthened by the Swedish striker Aleksandrs Venbergs, who, after entering the opponent’s zone, missed his opponent and then also took on Vasilievsky – 3: 1. Less than four minutes before the end of the regular time, “Lightning” replaced Vasilevski with the sixth player of the field, but the result of the match did not change.
Thus, Columbus won the first victory in this year’s Stanley Cup and reached a tie in the series against Tampabey (1-1). Korpisalo kicked 36 of 37 Lightning hockey shots at the winner’s goal tonight. Recall that in the first match of the series, the Finnish goalkeeper, repelling 85 of 88 opponents’ shots, recorded his name in NHL history and became the most goal-scoring goalkeeper in a single game. Despite Corpisalo’s fantastic performance, in the first match of the Blue Jackets series against Tampabey, he suffered a dramatic loss in the fifth extra time with 2: 3.
Columbus’ third game of the series against “Lightning” will be played three days later (August 16) at 2:30 Latvian time.
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