EDMONTON – Arthur Leknonen scored in 1:19 overtime when Colorado Avelanche beat Edmonton Oilers 6-5 on Monday to finish four games in the NHL Western Conference Finals.
Cale McCarthy scored a goal and four assists in the Colorado regulations.
Grabriel Landeskog with a goal and two assists, Nathan McKinnon with a goal and an assist, Miko Rantanen and Devon Toys also signed for Avalanche. Lekonen added two assists.
The pickup truck’s sixth goal in the playoffs in the trading deadline came after he knocked down Makar’s point kick with his stick and then buried his own rebound. The goal remained after a video review of a possible violation of the high stick.
Pavel Frankuz made 30 saves for Avalanche, who won a birth in the Stanley Cup final for the first time since the franchise won its second title in 2001.
Zack Hyman scored twice for Edmonton, while Connor McDavid with a goal and two assists, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Zach Cassian secured the rest of the attack for the Oilers.
Bored Leon Drysight added four assists while Mike Smith stopped 35 shots when Edmonton saw his first trip to the conference finals since 2006 come to an abrupt end.
The teams that lead 3-0 in the NHL conference finals / semifinals are now 45-0, including 27 moves.
In the final, Colorado will face the New York Rangers or Tampa Bay Lightning. New York leads the series 2-1, with Match 4 scheduled for Tuesday in Tampa.
Avalanche improved to 11-2 in the playoffs, including a perfect 7-0 on the road. Only six other teams in NHL history have scored at least seven consecutive victories on the road in the postseason.
Leaving 1-0 after the first period on Monday and with both teams almost falling asleep in the second, the Oils finally started at 7:39 when Hyman took a pass from Dreisytle from the fast attack and beat Françoise with a backhand over the glove for his 10- and a goal in the playoffs.
Nugent-Hopkins gave Edmonton their first lead at 4:57 p.m., when Toews and MacKinnon got their signals cut off. Oilers’ center jumped and beat Francois in another backhand kick – this time to the blocking side to send Rogers Place into orbit with his sixth, as Draisaitl, who mainly plays on one good foot, received treatment after limping. the bench.
Hyman struck the beam as Edmonton continued to insist on the problem.
Colorado rookie Alex Newhook was booed for delaying the puck game over the cup at the end of the period, and Edmonton made the visitors pay when McDavid snatched his 10th from the off-season and 31st point, following Francois from another feed. of Draisaitl for waters with 3-1 at 1:06 to the end.
McDavid and Dreisytle are the eighth pair of teammates in NHL history with a record 30 points in the playoffs.
Colorado returned one strike in 31 seconds in the third when Tows’ shot hit Oilers defender Cody Sessie in the front as he battled McKinnon for the defender’s fifth.
But Hyman scored his second of the evening and 11th overall with a 4-on-2 pressure, where his fingertip from a Draisaitl setup fooled Francouz at 3:55 for a 4-2 lead.
Landeskog returned Colorado within one at 8:58 in a mad rush in front after Smith unnecessarily turned the puck with his eighth.
Edmonton got a powerful game with less than nine minutes to go, looking back with two, but Dreisitl’s shot from the side of Francoise’s goal was as close as the Oilers would have come.
McKinnon equalized with his 11th shot on top of Smith with 6:30 left in the rules to prepare the stage for the goal of Rantanen, his fifth in the playoffs.
But Cassian scored his second goal, shooting a puck in the fold after Dreisitle’s initial strike with 3:22 to go, with the swing affair providing another twist.
Avalanche were left without the injured center Nazem Kadri after he was awkwardly hit in the board by the wingers of the Oilers Evander Kane at the beginning of Saturday’s match 3.
Kane, who leads the playoffs with 13 goals, was penalized for Monday’s victory by opening the door for new striker Dylan Holloway – the 14th draft pick in 2020 and one of Edmonton’s best prospects – to make his debut in NHL.
The Oilers were also behind second-line winger Kailer Yamamoto for the third straight race after receiving a blow from Gabriel Landeskog in Game 2.
Colorado beat the Oilers four times in a row, although they lost №1 goalkeeper Darcy Kumper and top 6 winger Andre Burakowski from injury in Match 1 before Kadri fell on Saturday.
Kumper returned to serve as Francouz’s reserve on Monday.
Avalanche also coped with the absence of top 4 defender Samuel Girard after he was injured in the first round against the Nashville Predators.
Edmonton used his speed and skill to beat the Los Angeles Kings and Calgary Flames to open the post-season, but faced an opponent in Colorado who played at an even higher pace, combined with perseverance and commitment in defense.
Colorado took a wild game of 1-6 with a score of 8-6 before beating Edmonton 4-0 two nights later and then winning 4-2 on Saturday to push the Oilers to the brink of elimination.
Edmonton was short-legged for seven of the first 12 minutes of Game 3 – including Kane’s Major for Cadry’s upload – and again faced problems with an early penalty on Monday when Kassian was whistled for a cut.
The visitors opened the scoring at 3:46 in this power game when Lekonen stole the puck from Hyman and fed Makar before he shot through traffic and into Smith’s left post for his fifth playoff goal.
Avalanche defender Josh Manson then hit the iron a few minutes later in a nervous and unusually quiet Rodgers Place.
Edmonton received several strong playoffs later in the period, but was unable to connect despite some time in the area, including a shot by Draisaitl that shook Francouz’s mask before the hosts returned to the second to live for at least a few more days.
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