An NHL Finnish discus thrower stretched to two feats in a death game – “I hugged him – it’s great to see a guy sacrifice his body”

Florida Panthers Erik Haula took a role in the first-round encounter between his team and the NY Islanders in the NHL playoffs. The Finn hit the opening goal in Florida’s 3-2 victory, which narrowed the wins of the match series to 1-2.

The hit was the first in Pori for Florida, where he has now played a total of 10 matches with powers of 1 + 2 = 3 (0).

– Haula scored a huge goal (Evgeny) Dadonovin great preliminary work. He was involved in important areas and made a great block in that second installment. Underpower made important blocks anyway, not just him. Haula and (Lucas) Wallmark played important minutes in midfield, Florida head coach Joel Quenneville said, among other things On the NHL Finnish pages returning to Wednesday night’s battle.

In addition to the finish, Haula also stretched to another huge fuss with an undercurrent that gave extra time for the panther shirt season.

– I give a lot of respect to that block. It was awesome to see, especially after I had taken it to cool. I hugged him and said I would make a big block for you at some point in this series. It’s great to see a guy sacrificing his body at this time of the season, sitting on an ice shelf at the time of Haula’s throw-in Aaron Ekblad commended.

It goes without saying that these actions – which do not shine at the top of the statistics, for example – are huge, especially in the playoffs, both in terms of the results of the games and in terms of the mental capacity of the teams.

– This was a big match for us mentally. I think every dude raised the level of his game. We played the full 60 minutes, played smart and were patient, the Florida goalkeeper Sergei Bobrovski confirmed.

– We played hard in the place of life and death. We demanded a lot from each other today and got a good result, Ekblad continued.

The match series, on the other hand, will continue in Finnish time on Friday night at 7 pm with the fourth sub-match.

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