Andrey SenchenkoSport correspondentAll materialsEmail to the author The New York Rangers defeated the Carolina Hurricanes in the seventh game of the series and made it to the finals of the Eastern Conference playoffs of the National Hockey League for the first time since 2015. Now the Blueshirts will have a rematch in the battle with the Tampa Bay Lightning, and the main character of the club from New York, Igor Shesterkin, will face a duel with Andrey Vasilevsky. The goalkeeper is half the team.» But the wealthy club from New York was luckier: it has not a good, but an amazing goalkeeper in its composition. At the time of the playoffs, when a group of reckless Rangers forwards does not show itself as brightly as it was throughout the regular season, Igor Shesterkin literally pulled the team out of the crisis on his shoulders and brought it to the Eastern Conference finals. Thanks to the phenomenal game of the Russian goalkeeper «blueshirts» bounced back from a score of 1-3 in the series with «Pittsburgh» and brought the case to victory in seven games. The same must be stated and the results of the confrontation with the “Carolina”. After the first two meetings, it seemed (and rightly so) that the Hurricanes would not experience much difficulty and, perhaps, even sweep the series against the club from New York with a four-game triumph. And the «hurricanes» had everything for this. In addition to a cool goalkeeper who can make the result with his own hands.
