The underdog defeats the favorite – this happened twice in the NHL on Sunday. The Boston Bruins are out after their record main round. Philipp Grubauer, on the other hand, is still there.
With the final siren, national ice hockey goalkeeper Philipp Grubauer jumped into the air and celebrated the sensational success against the NHL title holder. In part because he saved 33 of 34 shots on goal, the Seattle Kraken defeated Grubauer’s former team, the Colorado Avalanche, 2-1.
They are now in the playoffs in the semifinals of the Western Conference. “I’m done. What a game,” said the 31-year-old Rosenheimer on US television. The experts at the broadcaster TNT praised Grubauer’s performance enthusiastically.
Double goalscorer Oliver Bjorkstrand also acknowledged Bayern’s part in the success of the Kraken, who are participating in the playoffs for the first time in their history. “We have all the trust in the world in him. I don’t know how this series would have gone if we hadn’t had him,” said the Dane.
The Kraken caused the second sensation in the best ice hockey league in the world. The Florida Panthers beat the Boston Bruins 4-3 after overtime in game seven and were thrown out. The Bruins had set win and point records in the main round and were title favorites in the best ice hockey league in the world. In the best-of-seven series, the Panthers were already 1:3 behind after victories and only managed to equalize in the decisive game to make it 3:3 with less than a minute left of the game. Now the Panthers meet the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Now against Dallas
The Kraken face the Dallas Stars in the second round. “It won’t get any easier from here,” said Grubauer. With unbelievable saves in the first period, he made sure against his former team that Seattle could go into the break without conceding a goal and take a 2-0 lead in the second period. The defending champions came through through Mikko Rantanen and briefly celebrated Nathan MacKinnon’s supposed equalizer. The goal did not count because of a previous offside position.
“Many people wrote us off at the beginning of the season. We taught them otherwise,” said Grubauer. Game one in the series against Dallas is on Wednesday night in Texas in Germany. However, the goalkeeper’s participation in the World Cup in Finland and Latvia from May 12 to 28 has become less likely as he progressed.
Source: Stern
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