Kaspie Kapanen blocked a reversal at 7:19 points of overtime and Edmonton Olers entered the second round final in the second round in the second round final, with 1–0 victory over host Vegas Golden Nights.
Kapnen picked up on the Wavers from St. Louis Blues on 19 November and, playing his second game in the series, slammed the rebound of his own shot inside the right post for his second career overtime playoff winner as the oilers won the best-seven chain, 4–1.
Stuart Skinner finished with 24 saves for his second straight shutout to Edmonton, who will play the role of Dallas-Vinipeg winner. In 2004, Oilors became the first team for a playoff series with a 1-0 overtime win since the flames of Calgary on Detroit.
Edin Hill saved 31 for Vegas.
A tight-checking game, both teams, gave just 31 shots combined and 13 scoring opportunities in the first two periods.
Vegas, number 2 seeds at the Western Conference after winning the Pacific Division with 110 points, and Oilors, who lost to Florida Panthers in seven matches in the last year’s Stanley Cup final, were combined for just three shots in the first 11 minutes. During this period, oileers, which ended with an increase of 8–5 in shots on goals, had the best scoring opportunity on the 13:55 mark when Ryan Nugant-Hopkins fired a wrist bullet from the right circle on the right side.
Credited with zero scoring opportunities at the first time. Vegas received the first time in its first period when Jack Echell hit an open Victor Olofson at the top of the slot, but the Skinner, came into the 23-service shutout in the Skinner, game 4, distinguished Olofson’s wrist shot.
Golden Nights, playing without Captain Mark Stone, scratched with an upper body injury, made a strong push at the end of the second period, in which William Carlson killed the left post with a wrist shot from the lower edge of the left circle.
The game opened early in the third round, in which Echell killed Brett Howen with a pass at the back door, but Pak widened the hoven’s stick. Shortly thereafter, Leon had a breakway near Drassital, but the hill saved a blocker on its wrist shot from the slot.
Olers had a chance to win it with 1:07, when Connor McDawid and Zach Hymen freed the 2 -on -1 break, but Hill saved a glove on McDawid’s low wrist shot, which was the first shot of the game.
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