New York. Rasmus Dahlin scored the beautiful goal that helped Buffalo achieve a comfortable victory in the opening night of the season against Ottawa.
Then he thanks fans at the Keybank Center.
– When you see the fans, you just want to run right across the edge, says the back star after winning 4-1.
There was an uproar about fully-revamped senators ahead of tonight’s premiere in Buffalo, but it was the Sabers who ultimately prevailed.
Brady Tkachuk made sure to give the visitors a 1-0 lead, with a pass from Erich Prinstrom, but at the start of the second half rookie JJ Petrka equalized and then fired. Rasmus Dahlen until.
He brought the disc himself from his own area, played sideways in the offensive blue, continued relentlessly towards the penalty area, and finally recovered the rubber ball in front of Anton Forsberg and fired with a score of 2-1.
At the end of the third inning, Viktor Olofsson put two of his pucks into the basket as well, but Rasmus’ dipping came to be counted as the match-winner.
And the dotted one made it to the masses, it looks like.
– When you see the crowd, you just want to run straight across the sideline. He told the Buffalo News it was great to have everyone here tonight.
But he also praises his teammates for fighting.
– We just kept pushing the game, and we covered several shots. That’s what matters. work effort.
The Toronto Maple Leafs quickly avenged their humiliating loss against Montreal yesterday.
They were also in bad shape in the opening game of the night against Washington and lost 2-1 after one period. But in the middle of the road, Kale Yarnrock tied well with his first goal as a white-blue paper and in the third half decided Auston Matthews, with a decisive pass from Rasmus Sanden.
– That was exactly the response we wanted to get tonight, says Matthews after the 3-2 win.
Marcus Johansson scored one of Washington’s goals and Eric Gustafson got the assist.
Things are starting off well for Nils Lundqvist with the new Dallas Stars. He was responsible for assisting, in the power game, the regular season opener on Nashville grounds.
The guests were generally dominant and won 4-1.
The New York Rangers kicked off this year’s season. They won their season-opener against Tampa at home in Manhattan on Tuesday and followed it up last night with a 7-3 loss to mighty Minnesota.
We have a lot of skill and talent in our team and as long as we work hard we score a lot of goals, coach Gerard Gallant said.
Capu Kaku had the best shot of the evening and Mika Zibanijad contributed two passes.
If they hadn’t slowed down a bit, Pittsburgh could have crushed Arizona by double digits in the season opener at the PPG Paints Arena, but they settled for a 6-2 victory.
Sidney Crosby scored a goal and made assists, and Marcus Peterson also assisted.
Chicago fought valiantly in their road game against Vegas, but could never break Logan Thompson’s clean sheet, so Paul Cotter’s lone goal for the home team in the second half was enough to secure the win.
Sweden defender Philip Ross, who made his National Hockey League debut with the Black Hawks last night, was responsible for another solid effort, playing just over 17 minutes and firing twice on goal.
