Ice hockey: Draisaitl loses opening game of NHL finals with Edmonton

Ice hockey: Draisaitl loses opening game of NHL finals with Edmonton

The Edmonton Oilers, with ice hockey star Leon Draisaitl, shot 32 times at the Florida Panthers’ goal at the start of the final series – but missed. The opponent did better.

Leon Draisaitl and the Edmonton Oilers lost the first game of the NHL final series against the Florida Panthers. The German ice hockey star and the Oilers lost 0:3 (0:1, 0:1, 0:1) away in his first appearance in the fight for the Stanley Cup. For the first time in these playoffs of the North American ice hockey league, the team from Canada remained goalless.

The Oilers shot 32 times at the Panthers’ goal, but the visitors were always stopped by Florida goalkeeper Sergei Bobrowski, and Draisaitl did the same four times. “There were a few things that made us feel positive: We created good scoring opportunities, but we had no luck in front of their goal,” said Draisaitl’s co-star Connor McDavid, who tried six times at the Panthers’ goal.

For the hosts, Carter Verhaeghe and Evan Rodrigues scored at the beginning of the first and second periods, and Eetu Luostarinen scored into an empty net five seconds before the end of the game when the Oilers had substituted a sixth field player for their goalkeeper.

The second game of the best-of-seven series will take place again in Sunrise on Monday. The first team to win four games will win the Stanley Cup.

Source: Stern

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