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New York Rangers Beat Carolina Hurricanes to Proceed to Conference Finals
by privatebet.com - 2024/05/17
This year’s race for the Stanley Cup is shaping up to be pretty tense, but one team finally made it to the conference finals. Chris Kreider’s hat trick against the Carolina Hurricanes in Game 6 secured the New York Rangers a spot in the next round of the competition. New York scored a 5-3 win against the Hurricanes on Thursday night, and it eventually all came down to Chris Kreider’s third-period effort. He scored three goals in the final 20 minutes, becoming the third player in the team's history to score three goals in a single playoff period. The Rangers' head coach Peter Laviolette praised Kreider’s performance following their victory, describing it as a crucial factor in their success. “That is just a monster third period. [Kreider] put it on his back and he really delivered. It was more than him; but at the end of the day, we need to score goals, and this is what he does,” Laviolette told reporters. The Rangers will face the winner of the second-round series between the Florida Panthers and Boston Bruins in the conference finals. The remaining two second-round match-ups are played between the Dallas Stars and Colorado Avalanche, plus the Vancouver Canucks and Edmonton Oilers.