Gustav Nyquist and Adam Boqvist each saw with their important goal that Columbus could take their third straight victory in NHL ice hockey via 4-2 at home against Vancouver.
Nyquist struck in the first period, when he in a numerically disadvantage broke a pass at his own blue line and countered 1-0. Vancouver equalized before Boqvist from a narrow angle again gave his team the lead.
Despite another equalizer, Columbus was able to puncture the match with two goals in the final period.
There were also two Swedes in Anaheim snipers. The home team won with a clear 4-0 against Ottawa.
At the end of the first period, Rickard Rakell got the puck behind the Ottawa goal and found Isac Lundeström who got the puck into the goal behind Anton Forsberg. Rakell was then the one who finished the goal scorer in the match when he scored 4-0 in the middle of the final period.
Anaheim thus broke three one-match losing streak while Ottawa, which during the autumn was hard hit by Covid, now has four straight losses.
– We are fragile. We need a victory to feel to get the feeling in the team again, says coach DJ Smith.
I Nashville gjorde Andreas Johnson New Jersey’s first goal, but that goal came too late. The Swede’s net hit meant a reduction to 1-3 at the beginning of the third period and in the end Nashville won 4-2.
The night’s most diligent goal scorer, on the other hand, was Russian. Alexander Ovetchkin accounted for three hits as Washington defeated Florida 4-3. It was his first hat-trick of the season and came days after he accounted for three goal-scoring assists against Montreal.
– If I get the chance to shoot, I’ll shoot. If I have an opportunity to fit in, I do it. It’s pretty simple, he says after the game against Florida.
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