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Round 3 Game 3
Blackhawks 2 @ Canucks 3
(Vancouver leads series 3-0)
The Canucks had another very solid defensive effort, allowing only 19 shots the entire game and never trailing. After Marchessault opened the scoring with his seventh of the playoffs Patrick Sharp tied it up. In the second period, Henrik's seventh of the postseason gave the Canucks the lead. Ryan Kesler added an insurance marker early in the third which would turn into the game winner when Patrick Sharp's second of the game, shorthanded, brought Chicago to within one. Markstrom held strong through the remaining six minutes to achieve victory and move to within one game of the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time since 2011. P.K. Subban was a force, with three shots, plus one, two blocks, five hits and a takeaway. For the Hawks, Sharp not only scored their only two goals of the game, he also got two hits and two takeaways in only thirteen minutes of icetime. Kevin Hayes, the postseason leader in goals, has yet to score in this series and Chicago will need to see him return to the form he showed in the first two rounds if they want to make the improbable comeback in this series.
Red Wings 1 @ Rangers 2
(Detroit leads series 2-1)
The current leading scorer of the playoffs is Gus Nyquist, coming into this game with five goals and eleven assists. He opened the scoring on the powerplay, assisted of course by Datsyuk and Zetterberg. In the second, Derek Stepan evened it up (Dubinsky, Staal). Midway through the third Nyquist took a hooking minor and Callahan capitalized on the powerplay, assisted by Anisimov, to give the Rangers the lead, which they would hold onto to win their first game of the series. Lundqvist had a bounce back performance after being pulled in game 2, saving 33 of 34 shots en route to victory. Kronwall threw four hits and blocked three shots and played an overall stellar defensive game in twenty three minutes of icetime. Zetterberg took three shots on goal, also played amazing defensively, with three takeaways, a hit and a blocked shot. Nyquist attempted nine shots, seven of them on goal. Marc Staal was plus one with two hits and two takeaways for New York.
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