With the last match of the first round of the Stanley 2025 Cup qualifiers finished on Sunday evening, there is no rest for hockey fans. The second round begins on Monday.
The first series to ride presents the two remaining teams of the Atlantic division, while the Florida Panthers visit the Toronto Maple Leafs (8 p.m. he, espn).
Read the rest for an overview of the game with statistical ideas by ESPN Research, a summary of what happened in the Sunday match and the three stars of the first round of Arda Öcal.
Match notes
Florida Panthers in Toronto Maple Leafs
Game 1 | 8 p.m. and | Espn
ESPN Bet installed the panthers as a favorite in the series at -175, while the Maple Leafs are +150 to win the series against the Stanley Cup champions.
The Panthers won the 3-1 regular season series by a global score of 13-7. A major factor in these four games was the power game of the Panthers, which converted five of the 11 chances (45.5%). For comparison, the leaf power play only converted one of the nine opportunities (11.1%).
This is the second time that these clubs have encountered in the playoffs; The other time was also the second round in 2023. Florida eliminated Toronto in five games, punctuated by a prolongation victory in match 5. (Nick Cousins ​​scored the goal.)
Oliver Ekman-Larsson, Steven Lorentz and Anthony Stolarz won the Stanley Cup with the 2024 Panthers. The only series of previous playoff series in the NHL history in which three players dressed against a team with which they won a cup in the previous season, it was when the Los Angeles Kings Wayne Gretzky, Mike Krushelnyski and Marty Mcsorley teammates patinated against Edmonton's Oilers in 1989.
The Panthers have won more qualifying matches (39) since 2021 than they did during their first 26 seasons (19). Their 39 victories and 66 games have played the playoffs since 2021 led the NHL.
The classification of goals in the Florida qualifiers presents the current players through the first four places: Carter Verhaeghe (28), Sam Reinhart (23), Aleksander Barkov (20), Matthew Tkachuk (20).
This is the ninth consecutive appearance of the leafs in the playoffs, which is the longest active sequence in NHL and equal to the second longer in the history of the franchise. This other nine -year sequence ended in 1967 with a Stanley Cup victory.
The captain of Toronto Auston Matthews is tied with Darryl Sittler for the seventh in the history of the franchise in goals in playoffs, with 25. His next goal will push him into equality for the fifth, with Steve Thomas and George Armstrong. Wendel Clark is at the top of the ranking, with 34.
The three stars of Arda du Tour 1
Rantanen collected 12 points in the first round to help the stars eliminate his former team L'Avalanche. He had several first playoffs from the Stanley Cup along the way, including the first match 7 with a third -time hat round (“The Rantanen Game”).
McDavid put the team on their back several times during the series against the Kings, especially early. He finished with 11 points in the series, while the Oilers returned the Kings to the house in the first round for the fourth consecutive season.
The goalkeeper gave two or less goals to four of the five games of the Canadians, which obtained a percentage of .922 stops.
Sunday score
Winnipeg Jets 4, St. Louis Blues 3 (2ot)
Wpg wins 4-3, plays dal around 2
The Blues ran to a quick 2-0 lead in the first period – on the goals of Jordan Kyrou and Mathieu Joseph – and many thought it could be another bad memory of the qualifiers for the goalkeeper Connor Hellebuyck. Although the jets obtained one in the second side of the stick of Cole Perfetti, the center of Blues Radek Faka marked with less than a minute in the period, giving them an advance of 3-1 before the third.
St. Louis wore this advance in the last two minutes, when the jets rallied furiously; Vladislav Nametnikov marked at 6:04 pm, and Perfetti died in the aim of play with three seconds to play. The teams fought hard during the first 36 minutes of the OT, before Adam Lowry made the point of Neal Pionk from the point after Jordan Binnington for the tally of the series. Complete summary.
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Jets score the link in the last seconds of regulation
Cole Perfetti strikes for the award for jets with a second remaining in regulation.
