Andrey SenchenkoSport correspondentAll materialsEmail to the author»The new NHL season has officially started!» — such slogans today were full of news feeds of the North American hockey media and media channels. Yes, formally, the start of the next regular season draw was given at the end of last week, when the Nashville Predators and San Jose Sharks had a bright two-game series in terms of results (4:1, 3:2) in Prague, but the Czech stage The NHL Global Series didn't come close to conveying the familiar North American atmosphere. This night, this shortcoming was made up for by a magnificent confrontation between the New York Rangers and the Tampa Bay Lightning. Artemiy Panarin vs. Nikita Kucherov, Igor Shesterkin vs. Andrey Vasilevsky, Chris Kreider vs. Steven Stamkos — a great poster for the evening «Madison Square Garden». You can't imagine a better duel for a full-fledged start of the season of the world's major hockey league! Especially since the Rangers are still fresh in their memory of the June battles, when the team from New York lost a ticket to the Stanley Cup Finals from their own hands and allowed the Lightnings in the Eastern Conference Finals to create a powerful comeback from a score of 0-2 in the series.
