A few minutes later, Shesterkin had to pull the puck out of his own net. Stephen Stamkos remembered his youth and loaded the most powerful gun. allowfullscreen=»allowFullScreen» frameborder=»0″>Besieged the gates of Shesterkin and Nikita Kucherov. Like Stamkos, the best Russian scorer of our time mercilessly shot the Rangers goalkeeper throughout the match, but he could not break through Igor. Although in the first episode he was extremely close to this — from a few meters Nikita threw past an empty frame! What Kucherov failed to do was performed by Ondřej Palat. After a pass from Mikhail Sergachev, Czech rushed to the counterattack, bounced back with Stamkos and left Shesterkin no chance to finish off from close range. There are two things to note about Palat's goal. First, Stamkos' movement: the Tampa captain famously turned around and cut the defender out of the episode. Secondly, Artemy Panarin, who frankly missed the Chamber and did not prevent him from hitting the Rangers goal.Bring the “Tampa” match to victory, the fans would certainly have increased the wave of criticism against Artemy, but in the decisive segment of the meeting, Khlebushek corrected himself in full. First, Panarin declassed Vasilevskiy with a cool one-touch shot from the left circle. =»mozallowfullscreen» allowfullscreen=»allowFullScreen» frameborder=»0″>Then Artemy made an accurate pass to the goal of Miki Zibanejad, who performed the perfect one-timer. With a goal+pass, Panarin tied Alexander Semin and Sergey Brylin in career NHL playoff goals (15), and Vyacheslav Fetisov and Dmitry Mironov in assists (26).After the puck of the Swede on the scoreboard «Madison Square Garden» caught fire sensational 6:2 in favor of the hosts. Before Panarin's performance, Vasilevsky's gate was struck by Philip Chitil and Fran Vatrano, who scored a double. And if you can’t blame the Tampa goalkeeper for Hitil’s two goals, then Andrei would have coped with Vatrano’s throw in 9 out of 10 cases. Vasilevsky confirmed this in one of the following episodes, when the Russian, in a fall with a shield, repelled the most dangerous shot of Ryan Strome into an empty, it seemed, corner from a few meters. However, Vasya's spectacular save did not convince the Rangers fans (which is not surprising). Those for most of the third period invariably chanted throughout the arena: «Igor is better! Igor is better!»
