The Abbotsford Canucks took a 2-0 collection lead within the Western Convention Finals with a 1-0 win over the Texas Stars at a sold-out Abbotsford Centre on Saturday night time.
The collection continues with Sport 3 in Cedar Park, Texas, on Monday.
Akito Hirose scored the one objective of the competition 7:39 into the third interval, as his shot from the purpose pinballed off a skate in entrance and trickled previous Remi Poirier.
Artūrs Šilovs made 26 saves for his fifth shutout of the playoffs, one shy of the AHL file set for a single postseason by Rochester’s Mika Noronen in 2000. Šilovs has held the Stars off the board for the final 93 minutes and 41 seconds.
Texas practically tied the sport with 2:46 to go, however the officers dominated that Šilovs had frozen the puck earlier than it was poked over the objective line from underneath his pads.
The Stars had been 0-for-4 on the facility play in Sport 2 because the Canucks’ penalty kill improved to 39-for-40 (97.5 p.c) on the postseason.
Poirier stopped 28 of 29 photographs within the loss, his first defeat in regulation in the course of the playoffs.
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(Abbotsford leads collection, 1-0)
Sport 1 – Thu., Might 29 – ABBOTSFORD 3, Texas 2 (OT)
Sport 2 – Sat., Might 31 – ABBOTSFORD 1, Texas 0
Sport 3 – Mon., June 2 – Abbotsford at Texas, 8:00
Sport 4 – Wed., June 4 – Abbotsford at Texas, 8:00
*Sport 5 – Fri., June 6 – Abbotsford at Texas, 8:00
*Sport 6 – Solar., June 8 – Texas at Abbotsford, 9:00
*Sport 7 – Mon., June 9 – Texas at Abbotsford, 10:00
*if vital… All occasions Japanese
