MOSCOW, April 24 Head coach of the Tampa Bay Lightning » John Cooper praised the confrontation between his team's goalkeeper Andrei Vasilevsky and Florida Panthers goalkeeper Sergei Bobrovsky in the first round series of the National Hockey League (NHL) playoffs.
On Wednesday night, Florida beat Tampa in overtime in the second match of the first round series of the NHL Eastern Conference playoffs with a score of 3:2. Six minutes before the end of the second period, Bobrovsky parried a shot from Tampa defender Matthew Dumba, who was firing into an empty net. The Russian goalkeeper jumped the puck with his left hand with his back to the court. In total, Bobrovsky stopped 21 shots. Vasilevsky has 34 saves.
«»You have two of the best players in front of you. To be on the biggest stage in the biggest league in the world and watch two of these guys fight each other… I know I'm the coach of one of the teams, but I I’m just delighted (with Bobrovsky’s save),” the NHL website quotes Cooper as saying.
The third match of the series up to four victories will take place in Tampa on the night of April 26.
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