Nichushkin's hat-trick helped Colorado beat Winnipeg

MOSCOW, April 29 Colorado Avalanche beat Winnipeg Jets» in the fourth game of the first round of the National Hockey League (NHL) playoff series.
The meeting, which took place in Denver, ended in victory for the hosts with a score of 5:1 (1:1, 3:0, 1:0). Russian striker Valery Nichushkin scored three goals for the winners (32, 40 and 60 minutes), Artturi Lehkonen (9) and Cale Makar (36) scored once each. Nate Schmidt (14) scored for Winnipeg.
National Hockey League (NHL)28 April 2024 • start at 21:30FinishedColoradoUSA5 : 1WinnipegCanada
08:10 • Artturi Lehkonen (Casey Mittelstadt)
31:36 • Valery Nichushkin (Cale Makar, Nathan MacKinnon)
35: 03 • Cale Makar39:36 • Valery Nichushkin (Artturi Lehkonen, Nathan McKinnon)
59:47 • Valery Nichushkin (Mikko Rantanen)
13:56 • Nate Schmidt (Mason Appleton, Logan Stanley)

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Nichushkin scored six goals in four matches of the current playoffs. His debut match in the NHL was played by Russian forward “Colorado” Nikolai Kovalenko, who played in the 2023/24 season in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) for Nizhny Novgorod “Torpedo”. After the team's elimination from the Gagarin Cup, the forward moved to Colorado, which drafted him in 2018 with the 171st pick.

Russian goalkeeper “Colorado” Alexander Georgiev reflected 25 shots on his own goal out of 26.
“Colorado” increased the lead in the series to four victories (3-1). The fifth game will take place in Winnipeg on the night of May 1.