Newark. Sweden has a new passing king in the NHL.
Jesper Pratt accounted for his eighth goal-scoring performance as New Jersey claimed their third straight win during Saturday’s game in Newark – and he now leads the Nursing League alongside Artemi Banarin.
– yes. Yes, it was such a start when I didn’t score any goals myself, but I always try to help the team win games, the 24-year-old told Sportbladet after the 2-1 win over San Jose.
After your first two losses New Jersey Devils He quickly turned his season around, thus finishing third in a row in Saturday’s tight game against the San Jose Sharks at home at The Rock in downtown Newark.
“I think we’ve played really well all season, but in the first two games we had a hard time putting the discus and then we shot our feet in defense,” says Jesper Pratt when we met him in the home team’s luxurious dressing room.
– But now we have tightened it up and are better at pressing and we have not given the opponents much time. That, and our speed, was the difference. Now he’s sitting three in a row and that’s so much fun.
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He probes himself behind many things that happened in the future. He hasn’t managed to score any goals for himself yet, but he’s played more than that. Against the Sharks, he was behind the 2-1 cone that Dawson Mercer decided with a strong play at the end of the second half — and no less than his eighth play this fall. In five games. Thus, Jesper shares – at the time of writing – the top spot in the NHL’s Assists League with New York Rangers star Artemi Panarin.
Although the former AIK player from Trångsund has no idea about it.
‘It was such a start’
– Well, well, he smiles when we inform him of the site along with “Breadman”.
Yes, it was the beginning when I didn’t score any goals myself, but I always try to help the team win games and it paid off above all the last three times, when I scored a lot of the game. I really like the series with Nico Hescher and Ondrej Balat. We are strong all over the field and play great hockey.
– But I had good chances today and I have to make sure to spray them in the next game. I’ll have to practice a little more on that in the future.
For his part, Oscar Lindblom helped the Sharks console target, thus reaching 100 points in the National Hockey League.
In Boston, the Bruins looked on their way to another victory when Humbus Lindholm scored his second goal of the season 6:41 in the second half, but a desperate Minnesota returned to the game and was forced into overtime.
There, however, Taylor Hall of the home team was finally able to make the decision.
Jonas Prudden made Wild’s goal and Linus Olmark blocked 24 shots in the Boston area.