New York. A real sensation is brewing in the Stanley Cup playoffs.
The Challengers defeated the Seattle Kraken Colorado again last night – and they can now eliminate the defending champions in the next game.
“It’s really nice to come home and have a chance to win the series,” Alex Wennberg tells Sportbladet after a series 3-2.
The Seattle Kraken has only been around for a couple of years and has never been to the Stanley Cup playoffs before, so of course the prevailing theory was that the Colorado Avalanche could upset a first round game fairly easily and quickly – and when they took a 2-1 series last week that seemed to be It was about to happen, too.
I stood for the new fury
But the Kraken pulled off Game 4 at home in a packed Climate Pledge on Monday, and to everyone’s surprise they managed a 3-2 victory also at Denver’s Ball Arena last night.
“A very good game on our part,” says Swedish midfielder Alex Weinberg, who contributed an assist, when we got him next.
We go out, push hard and stick to our game. A warrior effort by the team.
Yes, because even though the Avalanche has to rely entirely on its stars—and they were missing suspended point guard Cale Makar last night—Seattle always represents the team’s full effort.
NHL-Rookie slog even
One of the goals in this fifth round can be considered to have been scored by Ty Carty – a completely green rookie who played his first game in the NHL but got into the group as smoothly as everyone else.
Now the rivals from the Northwest have a golden opportunity to take on the reigning champions in their hometowns in full-blown Stanley Cup fever on Saturday night.
Yeah, it feels really good to be able to go home and have a shot at winning the series, says “Wenny” Wennberg.
