The record for match 7 of Jame 7 of the stars coach Pete Deboer is now the best professional sports
Do not blame Mikko Rantanen if it seems that his post-match press conference had an orientation of Colorado Avalanche. A large part of the questions addressed to the hero in the Dallas Stars eliminatory series had to do with his former team.
So, kindly, he forced and thoughtful.
“I think this is the first match 7 that I have ever won,” said Rantanen after the stars bounced the avalanche of the playoffs. “I don't think we won one when I was in this room.”
Blush your coach Mikko because he took one of you six years ago.
Thanks also because he had your first.
The kind of Pete Deboer had a talent for that.
The 4-2 victory of the stars against the avalanche on Saturday at the American Airlines Center gave Deboer a ninth record victory in career 7 as a chief coach. At 9-0, with the victories of Match 7 with Dallas (three), the Sharks of San Jose (three), the Vegas Golden Knights (two) and the New Jersey Devils (one), he broke out equality with twice the champion of the Stanley Darryl Cup Sutter (8-3) to settle for first place.
The Florida Panthers head coach, Paul Maurice, who is 5-0 years old, has the second biggest game in default matches on the big book. Deboer has also exceeded the temple of Basketball Naismith Red at the Basketball Red Auerbach, which led to the Boston Celtics in the 1950s and 60s, for the largest number of victories of Match 7 without faults among the head coaches in the four main professional sports leagues. Auerbach went 8-0.
“It's super impressive,” said Stars Wyatt Johnston's center, who scored the goal of Saturday's victory. “The matches 7 seem to be quite close to 50-50. So that he can get out in addition to everyone in which he has been so far, it is pretty cool. Happy that we have kept this sequence.”
Deboer's first victory in match 7 occurred in 2012 when the Devils beat the panthers in double extension of a winner's match in the first round. His last – which included a deficit of two goals in the third period and four scores in the last eight minutes of the match to be won – was in unique circumstances.
Well, in fact, maybe not. Deboer sharks overcome a deficit of three goals against the Golden Knights in 2019 to win match 7 in a first round series. They beat Rantanen's avalanche in match 7 of the following series.
“The fact that I won two games 7, the fact that I was part of two games 7 on the right side of this type of game,” said Deboer, “it's crazy. Memories for a lifetime.”
Hey, when you win new, the models emerge. For example, the fact that seven of the Match 7 of Deboer victories intervened at home. Each of its three with the stars – against the Seattle Kraken in 2023, the Golden Knights in 2024 and the avalanche this year – occurred at the American Airlines Center.
“I talked about the importance of matches 7 at home and the home crowd and the energy they bring,” said Deboer. “I don't think we win this match if we don't play American Airlines in front of Dallas fans.”
Or without him on the bench.
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