CHARLOTTE, N.C. (theahl.com) … Danila Klimovich scored on an influence play 10:25 into the second additional time interval as Abbotsford took Sport 1 of the 2025 Calder Cup Finals, 4-3, in Charlotte on Friday evening.
The very best-of-seven collection continues Sunday afternoon (4 ET, AHLTV on FloHockey, SiriusXM NHL Community Radio).
Klimovich snapped a shot from the left-wing dot that acquired previous the glove hand of Kaapo Kähkönen for the profitable aim. It was Klimovich’s second OT winner of this postseason.
Arturs Šilovs (13-5) made 51 saves on the evening, stopping all 23 photographs he confronted in additional time.
The Canucks stormed again from a 3-1 deficit to ship the sport to additional time. Nate Smith scored 22 seconds after the Checkers had grabbed the two-goal lead within the second interval, and Ty Mueller netted the game-tying aim with 11:46 left in regulation.
Abbotsford’s Max Sasson opened the collection’ scoring 4:34 into the sport, earlier than MacKenzie Entwistle tied it simply over three minutes later. Oliver Okuliar’s aim with six-tenths of a second left within the opening interval put the Checkers forward 2-1, and Justin Sourdif made it 3-1 at 7:08 of the second.
Charlotte thought they’d received the sport off a face-off earlier within the second additional time, however the on-ice officers conferred and decided that the puck had been dropped prematurely.
Kähkönen (10-3) completed with 26 stops for the Checkers, who noticed their eight-game profitable streak come to an finish.
NOTES: Attendance for Sport 1 was 8,667, the most important crowd ever for an AHL sport at Bojangles Coliseum… The Canucks had been 2-for-7 on the ability play, and killed off all 5 Charlotte benefits – together with two within the first additional time interval… Friday’s contest was the longest Calder Cup Finals sport since Could 30, 2003, when the Hamilton Bulldogs defeated the Houston Aeros at 14:56 of the fourth additional time… The Sport 1 winner has really misplaced every of the final 4 Finals collection, together with 2019 was Charlotte dropped Sport 1 at dwelling to Chicago in OT earlier than profitable the subsequent 4 video games.
(Abbotsford leads collection, 1-0)
Sport 1 – Fri., June 13 – Abbotsford 4, CHARLOTTE 3 (2OT)
Sport 2 – Solar., June 15 – Abbotsford at Charlotte, 4:00
Sport 3 – Tue., June 17 – Charlotte at Abbotsford, 10:00
Sport 4 – Thu., June 19 – Charlotte at Abbotsford, 10:00
*Sport 5 – Sat., June 21 – Charlotte at Abbotsford, 9:00
*Sport 6 – Mon., June 23 – Abbotsford at Charlotte, 7:00
*Sport 7 – Wed., June 25 – Abbotsford at Charlotte, 7:00
*if crucial… All instances Japanese
