Germans hit plenty
Draisaitl plays great, Wild delivers a strange shooting festival
February 20, 2024, 7:42 a.m
Three of the German NHL professionals put their teams on the road to victory with the opening goal. Superstar Leon Draisaitl collects plenty of scorer points while a team elsewhere experiences a cruel six minutes.
After three defeats in five games, Leon Draisaitl won two games in a row in the NHL with the Edmonton Oilers. On Monday (local time) the Canadian team beat the Arizona Coyotes 6:3 (2:1, 0:2, 4:0). The Oilers thus consolidated third place in the Pacific Division of the North American Ice Hockey League.
After just 132 seconds, Draisaitl scored from the majority to give the guests a 1-0 lead. In the final third, the 28-year-old attacker was involved in Edmonton’s last two goals. This is the eighth time this season that Draisaitl has scored three points in a game. The Oilers won the game with three goals in the first six and a half minutes of the third period.
Tim Stützle was also responsible for the first goal in his Ottawa Senators’ away game against the Tampa Bay Lightning; the 22-year-old scored in the 4:2 (2:0, 1:1, 1:1) win Attacker for the 13th time this season. However, the Senators remain second to last in the Eastern Conference.
Wild and Canucks deliver goal spectacles
Moritz Seider also scored the opening goal for his Detroit Red Wings. The 22-year-old defender scored his seventh goal of the season in the 4:3 (1:1, 2:1, 0:1) away win after extra time against the Seattle Kraken. The Red Wings continue to occupy one of the two wild card spots in the East that entitle them to participate in the playoffs.
JJ Peterka and the Buffalo Sabers had to admit defeat at home against the Anaheim Ducks 3:4 (1:1, 2:3, 0:0). The 22-year-old attacker was at the 3:3 equalizer at the end of the game second third involved. For Nico Sturm, the San Jose Sharks suffered a clear 0:4 (0:3, 0:1, 0:0) home defeat against the defending champion Vegas Golden Knights.
The Minnesota Wild and Vancouver Canucks played an extraordinary game with a total of 17 goals. The last time there were more goals in an NHL game was in the 1995/96 season, when the Pittsburgh Penguins and San Jose Sharks combined to score 18 goals. The Wild won 10:7 (1:2, 2:3, 7:2) because they scored six times in 5:45 minutes from the end of the second to the beginning of the third period – the last time a team scored that many was 25 years ago Goals within an even shorter time. With Joel Eriksson Ek and Kirill Kaprisow, two Wild players scored a hat trick.