The goalie duel from Game 1 carried over into this contest, starting when Postava stymied Mason Shaw\u2019s bid for a shorthanded goal nearly seven minutes in. DiVincentiis benefited six minutes later when a Carter Mazur backhand from close range found the iron, then he darted across his crease to rob Wojciech Stachowiak with a left toe save during a Grand Rapids power play with just over four minutes left in the period.<\/p>\n
That power play unit, scoreless in its first four tries in the series, finally broke through during that same advantage to put the visitors on the board with 2:56 remaining. John Leonard\u2019s pass from the right half-wall found Sheldon Dries at the right post, and Dries quickly sent a no-look feed into the left circle for Brandsegg-Nyg\u00e5rd, who slammed the puck past a helpless DiVincentiis.<\/p>\n
That goal, on Grand Rapids\u2019 11th shot of the game and 50th of the series, snapped DiVincentiis\u2019 shutout streak against the Griffins at 77:04 and ended a postseason scoring drought of 131:26 that stretched back to the second period of Grand Rapids\u2019 double-overtime Game 3 elimination at Texas last spring.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Postava kept it a 1-0 game seven minutes into the second period, sliding to his right to deny David Gustafsson\u2019s attempt to finish off an odd-man rush. In the waning seconds of the frame, a great backcheck by Stachowiak ensured the Griffins would take that advantage into the second intermission. With the Moose heading up ice on a 3-on-2 break, Stachowiak began sprinting in pursuit from his own goal line and eventually caught up to Brad Lambert at the left hash marks 160 feet away, getting his stick on a centering pass to impede a prime scoring opportunity.<\/p>\n
Four minutes into the third, DiVincentiis denied an Eduards Tralmaks one-timer from the slot to maintain Manitoba\u2019s one-goal deficit, before Postava turned aside a wide-open Phillip Di Giuseppe on the doorstep two minutes later.<\/p>\n
Wallinder staked the Griffins to the first two-goal lead of this series with 5:12 remaining. Off a breakout pass from Brandsegg-Nyg\u00e5rd, Wallinder led the charge up the left side and across the Manitoba line before snapping a shot past DiVincentiis\u2019 glove from the top of the circle.<\/p>\n
The Moose pulled their netminder for an extra attacker with more than three minutes left but could not muster another shot on Postava, who improved to 1-1 in the postseason with a 0.50 goals-against average and a .981 save percentage, having stopped 52 of 53 shots.<\/p>\n
For his part, DiVincentiis shows a 1.02 GAA and .968 save percentage during these playoffs, after losing for the first time in four starts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The goalie duel from Game 1 carried over into this contest, starting when Postava stymied Mason Shaw\u2019s bid…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,240826,21549,82],"class_list":["post-647098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-favor","tag-returning","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}