Men's Ice Hockey NHL 2020 - 2021

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Wilson's irresponsible behaviour that started it all...

 

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Tampa Bay Lightning vs Montreal Canadiens  in the Stanley Cup Final

 

Back to back Final for Tampa (Reigning champion), Montreal returns to the "Holy Grail" final battle after 28 years

 

 

Montreal fans have however some strange style of celebrating successes

 

 

Anyway Tampa is obviously the favorite to maintain its reign in the NHL.

 

From view both teams have Slovak players in their rosters.

Sadly for Montreal our forward Tomáš Tatár is injured and missed the whole last two Play-Off series, and it does not look he will be able to play the final series neither.

For Tampa Erik "Drago" Černák is one of the lead defencers of the team and should play the finals, if Tampa succeed he will became the first Slovak to win the Stanley Cup back to back two years in a row with the same team.

 

The finals starts this Monday in Florida

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GAME 1

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING - MONTREAL CANADIENS 5:1 (1:0, 1:1, 3:0)

Goals:

7. ČERNÁK (Palát, Point) 1:0, 26. Gourde (Colton, Goodrow) 2:0, 42. Kucherov (Sergachyov) 3:1, 52. Kucherov (Point) 4:1, 59. Stamkos (Kucherov, Point) 5:1 - 38. Chiarot (Kotkaniemi, Weber) 2:1

 

/Series Standing: 1:0/

 

Officials:

O'Rourke, Charron – Cormier, Murchison, Penalties: 3:4 all for 2 min, Powerplay Goals 1:0, Shorthanded Goals: 0:0, Shots on Goal: 26:19, Attendance: 15.911

 

Line-up:

 

Tampa Bay: Vasilevski - Rutta, Hedman, ČERNÁK, McDonagh, Savard, Sergachyov - Kucherov, Point, Palát - Stamkos, Cirelli, Killorn - Coleman, Gourde, Goodrow - Maroon, Johnson, Colton

 

Montreal: Price - Weber, Chiarot, Petry, Edmundson, Merrill, Gustafsson - Gallagher, Danault, Lehkonen - Caufield, Suzuki, Toffoli - Anderson, Kotkaniemi, Byron - Perry, Staal, Evans.

 

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game pretty much in control for the Lightning...

 

not a great game, though...both teams looked to be quite nervous and there were too many provocative fouls and retalliations, especially when the score was clearly in favour of the home team...

 

MTL loses once again game #1 of a playoff series and also saw their power play successful streak coming to an end...

 

definitely not a good night for them...

 

I hope to see some better hockey in game #2...

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GAME 2

Tampa Bay Lightning – Montreal Canadiens  3:1

(0:0, 2:1, 1:0)

Goals:

 27. Cirelli (T. Johnson, Rutta) 1:0, 40. Coleman (Goodrow, McDonagh) 2:1, 56. Palát (Unassisted) 3:1 – 31. Suzuki (Unassisted) 1:1

 

/Series Standing: 2:0/

 

Officials:

Sutherland, Furlatt – Murray, Brisebois, Penalties: 3:4 all for 2 min, Powerplay Goals 0:1, Shorthanded Goals: 0:0, Shots on Goal: 23:43, Attendance: 17.166

 

Line-up:

 

Tampa Bay: Vasilevski - Rutta, Hedman, ČERNÁK, McDonagh, Savard, Sergachyov - Kucherov, Point, Palát - Stamkos, Cirelli, Killorn - Coleman, Gourde, Goodrow - Maroon, Johnson, Colton.

 

Montreal: Price - Weber, Chiarot, Petry, Edmundson, Merrill, Gustafsson - Gallagher, Danault, Lehkonen - Caufield, Suzuki, Toffoli - Anderson, Kotkaniemi, Byron - Perry, Staal, Evans.

 

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GAME 3

Montreal Canadiens - Tampa Bay Lightning  3:6

(1:2, 1:2, 1:2)

Goals:

12. Danault (Weber) 1:2, 39. Suzuki (Petry, Caufield) 2:4, 56. Perry (Gallagher, Chiarot) 3:5 – 2. Rutta (Palát, Hedman) 0:1, 4. Hedman (Kucherov, Cirelli) 0:2, 22. Kucherov (Palát, ČERNÁK) 1:3, 24. Johnson (Joseph, Savard) 1:4, 56. Johnson (Unassisted) 2:5, 57. Coleman (Goodrow) 3:6

 

/Series Standing: 0:3/

 

Officials:

Dwyer, Charron – Cherrey, Murchison, Penalties: 1:1 all for 2 min, Powerplay Goals 0:1, Shorthanded Goals: 0:0, Shots on Goal: 35:30, Attendance: 3.500

 

Line-up:

 

Montreal: Price - Weber, Chiarot, Petry, Edmundson, Merrill, Gustafsson - Gallagher, Danault, Lehkonen - Caufield, Suzuki, Toffoli - Anderson, Kotkaniemi, Byron - Perry, Staal, Armia.

 

Tampa Bay: Vasilevski - Rutta, Hedman, ČERNÁK, McDonagh, Savard, Sergachyov - Kucherov, Point, Palát - Stamkos, Cirelli, Johnson - Coleman, Gourde, Goodrow - Johnson, Colton, Maroon.

 

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GAME 4

Montreal Canadiens - Tampa Bay Lightning  3:2 After Overtime

(1:0, 0:1, 1:1 - 1:0)

Goals:

16. Anderson (Suzuki, Caufield) 1:0, 49. Romanov (Evans) 2:1, 64. Anderson (Caufield) 3:2 After OT - 38. Goodrow (McDonagh, Coleman) 1:1, 54. Maroon (Joseph, Johnson) 2:2

 

/Series Standing: 1:3/

 

Officials:

Sutherland, Furlatt – Murray, Brisebois, Penalties: 10:6 all for 2 min, Powerplay Goals 0:0, Shorthanded Goals: 0:0, Shots on Goal: 21:34, Attendance: 3.500

 

Line-up:

 

Montreal: Price – Weber, Chiarot, Petry, Edmundson, Kulak, Romanov – Gallagher, Danault, Toffoli – Anderson, Suzuki, Caufield – Lehkonen, Evans, Byron – Perry, Staal, Armia.

 

Tampa Bay: Vasilevski – Rutta, Hedman, ČERNÁK, McDonagh, Savard, Sergachyov – Kucherov, Point, Palát – Stamkos, Cirelli, Johnson – Coleman, Gourde, Goodrow – Joseph, Colton, Maroon.

 

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GAME 5

Tampa Bay Lightning – Montreal Canadiens  1:0

(0:0, 1:0, 0:0)

Goals:

 34. Colton (Savard, McDonagh) 1:0

 

/Series Final Standing: 4:1/

 

Officials:

Dwyer, O´Rourke - Cormier, Cherrey, Penalties: 4:4 all for 2 min, Powerplay Goals 0:0, Shorthanded Goals: 0:0, Attendance: 18.110

 

Line-up:

 

Tampa Bay: Vasilevski - Rutta, Hedman, ČERNÁK, McDonagh, Savard, Sergachyov - Kucherov, Point, Palát - Stamkos, Cirelli, Colton - Coleman, Gourde, Goodrow - Joseph, Johnson, Maroon.

 

Montreal: Price - Weber, Chiarot, Petry, Edmundson, Kulak, Romanov - Gallagher, Danault, Toffoli - Caufield, Suzuki, Anderson - Lehkonen, Evans, Byron - Perry, Staal, Armia.

 

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2nd Stanley Cup for Erik "Drago" Černák.

 

 

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Great run by the Habs, no one expected this!