Colorado Avalanche Sweep Edmonton Oilers to Reach Stanley Cup Finals

EDMONTON, Alberta — Artturi Lehkonen scored 1 minute 19 seconds into overtime, and the Colorado Avalanche rallied to beat the Edmonton Oilers, 6-5, Monday night to complete a four-game sweep in the Western Conference finals and send themselves to the Stanley Cup finals for the first time since 2001.

Colorado will take on either the Rangers or the Tampa Bay Lightning, who have won the past two Stanley Cups. The Rangers lead the best-of-seven Eastern Conference finals series two games to one. Game 4 is Tuesday night in Tampa, Fla.

Cale Makar, Devon Toews, Gabriel Landeskog, Nathan MacKinnon and Mikko Rantanen also scored for Colorado. Pavel Francouz stopped 30 of 35 shots.

“Our main thing is just trying to be resilient, making sure that every single night we bring that same game,” said Makar, who also had four assists. “Sometimes it might not be pretty, but at the end of the day we’re just going to try to get the job done.”

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/07/sports/hockey/colorado-avalanche-edmonton-oilers-game-4-score.html