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Disastrous misfortune in the NHL – “Have to pray for him”
Status: 29.04.2024 | Reading time: 3 minutes
Colorado wins clearly and is about to advance to the next round – all goals in the video
The Colorado Avalanche are about to move into the second round of the play-offs. In front of their own fans in Denver, the team celebrates a clear 5-1 win against the Winnipeg Jets. Watch all the goals from the game in the video here.
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Shocking moment in the NHL playoffs: During the game between the Colorado Avalanche and the Winnipeg Jets, Vladislav Namestnikov is caught in the face by a puck. “It’s scary,” says a teammate about the huge blood loss.
A fatal accident occurred in the Colorado Avalanche’s NHL playoff game against the Winnipeg Jets. With the score 4-1 in the 47th minute, Winnipeg’s Nate Schmidt shot off his teammate Vladislav Namestnikov. Schmidt’s shot hit the Russian full in the face, who fell to the ground like a stone and remained motionless. When a stretcher was already on the ice, the center was able to get up again and leave the ice on his own two feet to the applause of the spectators.
Supported by supervisors, he went into the cabin with his head and upper body bent deeply forward. The face probably took the full force of the puck. No NHL professional wears full visors unless he has just suffered a serious facial injury. “It’s scary,” Namestnikov’s teammate Mark Scheifele told the AP news agency. “You never want to see that much blood. One can only hope and pray that he is okay. This is a terrible thing. We just have to pray for him.”
Colorado and Winnipeg face each other in the first round of the playoffs. The Avalanche ultimately won 5-1 (1-1, 3-0, 1-0) and lead 3-1 in the best-of-seven series.
Supported by his supervisors, Vladislav Namestnikov leaves the ice
Those: AP/David Zalubowski
Schmidt quickly recovered from his huge miss to his teammate’s head and hit the crossbar just seconds after the game continued. The American has been playing for Winnipeg since 2021, his injured teammate came from the Tampa Bay Lightning in the summer of 2023.
Doctors looked after Namestnikov in the locker room, and he was later taken to the hospital for a detailed examination, according to trainer Rick Bowness. Namestnikov comes from Voskresensk near Moscow and has been playing in the best league in the world for ten years. At that time he was signed by the Tampa Bay Lightning.
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In the years to come, he became a peripatetic in the NHL, also playing for the New York Rangers, Ottawa Senators, Colorado Avalanche, Detroit Red Wings and the Dallas Stars. In the Western Conference this season he finished second with Winnipeg behind his former team Dallas. The Colorado Avalanche now seem too strong in the playoffs.
Oilers are just one win away from the NHL playoffs
Leon Draisaitl and the Edmonton Oilers, on the other hand, are only missing one more win in the playoffs on the way to the Stanley Cup to reach the second round. The team from Canada defeated the Los Angeles Kings 1-0 on Sunday evening (local time) and now leads the best-of-seven series with 3-1 wins. The decision can be made as early as Thursday night at the next game in Edmonton.
After 27 goals in the first three games, both teams’ defenses hardly allowed anything in game four. Edmonton’s lead came from the first majority phase of the game. The puck came to Evan Bouchard via stars Connor McDavid and Draisaitl, who shot it into the net from a distance.
Draisaitl leads Oilers to their next victory with an assist – the highlights in the video
The Edmonton Oilers are just one win away from advancing to the next round of the play-offs. After goal spectacles in the last few games, this time one goal is enough for the Oilers to win, in which Leon Draisaitl played a decisive role. The highlights in the video.
“Definitely not our best material offensively that we have played this season, but in the playoffs you have to win games like that,” said Draisaitl. “13 shots are definitely not enough to keep winning games from here on out, but you have to win games like that every now and then.”
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The New York Rangers had previously prevailed in the fourth duel with the Washington Capitals and became the first NHL team to reach the second round of the playoffs. The Rangers won 4-2 in Washington. The Vancouver Canucks won 4-3 after overtime against the Nashville Predators and now lead 3-1 in the series.