After playing an important role in the final of Stanley Cup on Thursday in the 5-4 overtime win of Edmonton Olers, even in the final of the Stanley Cup, Goltender Calvin Picard will start Saturday’s Pivatal Game 5 against Florida Panthers.
In the relief of Stuart Skinner, who scored three goals in the first period of Game 4, Picard scored 22 saves and improved 7–0 and this postsen with 2.69 goals averages and a .896 save percent to save percentage in nine appearances (six).
“It’s exciting, this is clearly a good opportunity for me,” Picard told reporters after the skate on Saturday morning. “It seems like another game for me, not much time to get time in the previous game and think about it, not much space for error and our team is battling back and winning, gives you some confidence.
“The building is going to be electric tonight and it is going to be an exciting day.”
With 3–0 retreat oolers, Picard closed the door on the panthers in the second period with 10 saves, rallying with three goals during the period. Edmonton took a 4–3 lead in the third, before Florida had left it 20 seconds. Oilrs’ Leon Dresatal scored the overtime winner for the best-seven chain count.
“It was not an easy call because we have two good goals,” Edmonton’s coach Chris Nobbleuch said about giving the picard a beginning. “Stu has arrived and played some very big games, especially in the series later. But I think the decisive factor for us is that we won the previous game, and (Picard) saved a lot. It was probably a decisive factor; No. 1, we won and how well he played for them to get the net again.”
In the overtime of Game 4, Picard made a big savings on Sam Bennett One-Time, so that the game could be tied. With its gloves, the picard was able to up and close the crossbar.
Game 4 was not the first time Picard gave relief to the skinner, as the Western Backup Los Angeles came in game 2 of the first round of the Western Conference against Kings. Picard then started the game 3 in the best range of 2–0 with Olers.
The 33 -year -old Picard won four directly to help Edmonton to send in the second round and remained a starter for the first two matches against Las Vegas Nights. The lower-body injury of a game 2 excluded her, in which Skinner worked for the rest of the series and in the final of the Western Conference against Dallas Stars.
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