Blake scores in OT, Hurricanes complete sweep of Flyers in East 2nd Round

“I think we played a good series. This is a new team. We write our own story. Every team has their own ups and downs. We knew we were the better team, we just had to go prove it, and that’s what we did. “We knew they were going to push hard (in the first period). It’s their home rink and they want to end the series,” Stars defenseman Miro Heiskanen said. The Wild’s last series triumph came against the St. Louis Blues in the 2015 Western Conference First Round, when they clinched the series in six games. ST. PAUL, Minn. — Quinn Hughes had two goals and an assist, and the Minnesota Wild eliminated the Dallas Stars with a 5-2 win in Game 6 of the Western Conference First Round at Grand Casino Arena on Thursday.

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“I mean, they’re such a pleasure to coach. The way they went through the series, I think just learning lessons, and trying to get better and stronger. Tonight was another example of that. In the past 30 years the only team League-wide with more are the 2025 Panthers (17). “‘Bumper,’ he makes the mistake on the second goal, then he gets the tying goal,” Flyers coach Rick Tocchet said. Travis Konecny’s hard forecheck knocked Hurricanes defenseman K’Andre Miller off the puck behind the Carolina net.

… The Avalanche became the seventh team in NHL Stanley Cup Playoff history to have 17 different players score a goal through the team’s first nine games. Check out all of the playoff goals from Wednesday night Watch all playoff goals from Thursday’s Eastern Conference Final opener “We came out on our toes, ready to play, had great commitment the last two games with the shot blocking … and we had contributions throughout the lineup. It was fun to coach.” Carolina has won five straight overtime playoff games, dating to Game 5 of the 2025 Eastern Conference First Round.

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• You can’t really hide or dance around the fact that they outplayed us, but like I said, that’s where the frustration comes in.”
• Carolina will advance to the Eastern Conference Final and is the fifth team in NHL history to have an 8-0 start to the postseason.
• “That’s a heck of a team and they played really well. I thought tonight was a pretty even game. I mean, they had the first period, we had the second, the third was a toss-up and they just got the last bounce off a skate … it kind of summed up the series.”
• Blake broke the puck out of the Flyers zone and slid it to Hall, who hit a streaking Stankoven for the wrist shot.

With just 10 total goals allowed across eight postseason games, the Hurricanes are off to the Eastern Conference Final for the second straight season and the third time in four. “Us as a line, we want to get to our game and play in their end, forecheck. We know that the strengths of our game, as a team and as a line, is forechecking, disruption and we got to that in the second period.” Two tipped goals and one at the end there that’s just a great shot by a great player. Mackenzie Blackwood allowed three goals on 13 shots before being replaced at the start of the second period by Wedgewood, who stopped all seven shots in relief. Hughes became the first defenseman in Wild history to score a series-clinching goal.

These guys are the best, (they’re) Presidents’ Trophy (winners).” It just felt like we had a really good team, and you get through these guys, you never know, but if we had to lose it, you want to lose to these guys. That’s the character of our group, so not too much of a surprise there,” Wild defenseman Quinn Hughes said. One is you’re going to win, which is a great feeling, and when you lose, it’s an empty feeling,” Hynes said. Nick Foligno scored twice and Marcus Johansson also scored for the Wild, the No. 3 seed from the Central. “I think now (I’ll) pay closer attention to that (series).

“It’s on to round two now. You flush this. It doesn’t matter anymore. We’ve got another series to win.” “We did what we had to do,” Wild defenseman Brock Faber, who had the primary assist on Hughes’ go-ahead goal, said. Mikko Rantanen’s pass from dbbet below the goal line found Johnston in the slot, who put a snap shot past the right pad of Wallstedt. Defenseman has 2 goals, 3 points in Game 6 victory, Minnesota advances for 1st time since 2015 The Flyers were swept in a best-of-7 series for the first time since losing to the Boston Bruins in the 2011 Eastern Conference Semifinals. The only other teams to win their first eight were the 1969 St. Louis Blues, the 1960 Montreal Canadiens, and the 1952 Detroit Red Wings.