2023-05-26 05:30:21
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May 26, 08:30
American broke Ovechkin’s record for goals in the Stanley Cup
Joe Pavelski scored a goal in an overtime Stanley Cup game between Dallas and Vegas. During his career, he scored 73 goals in 180 NHL playoff games.
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Photo: Joe Pavelski (Global look press)
The Dallas Stars defeated the Vegas Golden Knights in the NHL’s Stanley Cup semi-finals. The fourth meeting of the series ended in overtime with a score of 3:2.
In regular time, William Karlsson and Jonathan Marchessault scored goals as part of the guests, American striker Jason Robertson scored twice for the hosts. American Joe Pavelski scored the decisive goal in overtime.
The score in the series became 3:1 in favor of Vegas.
The 38-year-old Pavelski now has a career total of 73 goals in 180 NHL playoff games. According to this indicator, he bypassed Alexander Ovechkin (72 goals in 147 playoff games) and set the best result among active NHL players.
Wayne Gretzky is the all-time playoff scoring leader with 122 goals in 208 games.
It’s Pavelski’s fourth overtime Stanley Cup goal in his career. According to this indicator, he came in second place among active players, equaling Niklas Backstrom (Washington) and Patrice Bergeron (Boston). The leaders in this indicator with five washers are Patrick Kane (Rangers, Chicago) and Corey Perry (Tampa, Montreal, Dallas, Anaheim).
In total, in 12 games of the current playoffs, Pavelski scored 13 (9 goals + 4 assists) points.
Grant Getadaryan.
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