Stayed cool: Tim Stützle’s objective towards Jeremy Swayman used to be the one one within the shootout in Ottawa’s win towards Boston.
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Productive Saturday for the German NHL pros: With the exception of Nico Sturm (1:4 defeat with San Jose on the New York Islanders), all German box avid gamers who had been used accumulated no less than one scorer level. It used to be even two of them for Tim Stützle, who additionally scored the decisive penalty within the Ottawa Senators’ 6:5 shootout house win towards the Boston Bruins (see video beneath). Previously, in a turbulent fit, the middle had scored the intervening time 2-0 and ready the 3-3 prior to his Senators equalized a 3-5 deficit within the closing 3 mins and 13 seconds of normal taking part in time and in spite of everything received the shootout climbed previous the Bruins, who had been now tied on issues, to the second one wild card spot within the Eastern Conference.
Leon Draisaitl additionally scored two times on Saturday, scoring each targets for his Edmonton Oilers in Vancouver – each occasions from a good attitude. However, they weren’t sufficient to stop Edmonton’s first defeat after 4 successes in a row after a 3-0 deficit. With 33 targets this season, the German famous person obviously leads the record of NHL objective getters. Draisaitl has simplest now not scored in two video games because the starting of December and is simplest forward of Colorado’s Nathan MacKinnon within the scorer scores (one lend a hand within the 6-3 house win towards Dallas) in entrance of you.
Lukas Reichel is some distance from the highest scorer, however the Chicago Blackhawks’ German attacker completed 1-1 within the unexpected 5-3 house win over the Vegas Golden Knights (5th defeat from the closing six video games) with the technically difficult objective no less than his objective drought, which had lasted since December second. Philipp Grubauer used to be additionally in a position to have fun a win, even supposing he didn’t play for the 3rd time in a row in his Seattle Kraken’s 4-2 win towards the Los Angeles Kings. Jaden Schwartz used to be the person of the night time for the Kraken together with his first hat trick in a Seattle jersey – he got here from St. Louis in 2021. Meanwhile, there used to be not anything to realize for the Detroit Red Wings, who misplaced 5-1 to the Tampa Bay Lightning in spite of an influence play lend a hand from Moritz Seider and thus suffered a setback within the Eastern Conference wild card race.
Stefan Wasmer
