Now the Lightning have a chance to repeat as Cup champions and add to the legacy that this core of Steven Stamkos, Nikita Kucherov, Brayden Point, Victor Hedman, and Vasilevskiy has built for itself. They were unable to beat Vasilevskiy to get the game-tying goal. It was not until the closing minutes with the net empty that the Islanders finally started to generate some good looks. This marks the only time a Game 7 has ended with a 1-0 score with only goal being scored while shorthanded.įrom there, the story was all about Vasilevskiy and the Lightning defensive play as they went significant stretches without allowing a shot on goal. Once Cirelli received the pass he bought time in the offensive zone and found Gourde flying off the bench for the shot. The play started deep in the Tampa Bay zone when Ryan McDonagh showed a ton of patience to hold on to the puck instead of just sending it down the ice, waiting for an opening to find Anthony Cirelli with a stretch pass. Talk about a bad time for that mistake to happen. But what made it so shocking is that the Islanders were the only team in the NHL this season that had not allowed a single shorthanded goal throughout the regular season or playoffs (75 games).
While he was keeping the Islanders off the scoreboard, the only player to get on the scoresheet was Yanni Gourde, who scored the game’s only goal midway through the second period with his team shorthanded.Īnytime you can get a shorthanded goal in a Game 7 it is going to be significant. Just another example as to why he is the best goalie in hockey and a regular Vezina Trophy finalist.
In the series-clinching win before that streak started (the Eastern Conference Final a year ago against the Islanders) he allowed only one goal.
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Going back to last year’s playoffs he has now ended four consecutive series with a shutout, making him just the ninth goalie in NHL history to have at least four series-clinching shutouts in a career and the first to do it in four consecutive series. Lightning goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped every shot he faced for his third shutout of the playoffs, with all of them coming in series clinching games. It was a clinical defensive effort from the Lightning on Friday night as they limited the Islanders to just 18 shots on goal and completely dominated the game from a territorial perspective, even if it did not show up on the scoreboard. They will face the Canadiens starting on Monday night in Tampa Bay ( 8 p.m. Thanks to their 1-0 win over the Islanders in Game 7, the Lightning will attempt to win back-to-back titles. The 2021 Stanley Cup Final is set and the Lightning will have an opportunity to defend their title.
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