2023 Stanley Cup Playoffs Results: April 21st

Welcome to Full Press Hockey‘s 2023 NHL Stanley Cup playoffs coverage. Each day during this first round we give you results of playoff games, along with an analysis. The playoffs start on Monday April 17th. Be sure to stay current with all the action right here.

2023 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs Results

NHL Playoff Schedule For April 21, 2023:

MATCHUP		TIME	TV
Carolina East 1st Round – Game 3, CAR leads series 1-0	@  New York	4:00 PM	TBS
Boston East 1st Round – Game 3, BOS leads series 1-0	@  Florida	4:30 PM	TNT
Dallas West 1st Round – Game 3, MIN leads series 1-0	@  Minnesota	6:30 PM	TBS
Edmonton West 1st Round – Game 3, LA leads series 1-0	@  Los Angeles	7:00 PM	TNT

NHL Playoffs Scores for April 21, 2023:

HURRICANES LEAD SERIES 2-1

BRUINS LEAD SERIES 2-1

WILD LEAD SERIES 2-1

KINGS LEAD SERIES 2-1

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Carolina Hurricanes vs New York Islanders

The Islanders were locked in another tight game with the Carolina Hurricanes until a big goal late opened a record-setting scoring outburst and helped New York get a big home win after a pair of one-goal losses on the road.

Kyle Palmieri and Matt Martin scored 44 seconds apart late in the third period and the Islanders beat the Hurricanes 5-1 Friday night to cut their first-round series deficit to 2-1.

Casey Cizikas, Scott Mayfield and Anders Lee also scored as New York got four goals in a 2:18 span late – the fastest four goals in Stanley Cup playoff history – to pull away. Ilya Sorokin stopped 30 shots for the Islanders.

Boston Bruins vs Florida Panthers

The Boston Bruins don’t lose often. And losing two in a row, has been almost unheard of for this team this season.

Taylor Hall had a goal and an assist, Linus Ullmark stopped 29 shots and the Bruins topped the Florida Panthers 4-2 in Game 3 of their Eastern Conference first-round series on Friday night.

Boston took a 2-1 lead in the series – looking nothing like the team that gave up six goals on home ice on Wednesday. They thwarted Florida for two periods, with 19 of the Panthers’ 31 shots coming amid a desperate third-period rally try.

The Bruins – who had the best regular season in NHL history – flexed all sorts of muscle in Game 3. They took a 4-0 lead before a pair of late goals only made the scoreboard look better, chased Panthers starter Alex Lyon in the third, and reclaimed the home-ice edge that they’d lost two nights earlier.

Dallas Stars vs Minnesota Wild

Mats Zuccarello scored twice and Ryan Hartman had a three-point game as the Minnesota Wild beat the Dallas Stars 5-1 Friday night to take a 2-1 lead in the first-round playoff series.

Zuccarello scored Minnesota’s first goal on a backhander at 16:45 of the first period and beat Stars goalie Jake Oettinger on a breakaway at 14:07 of the third to bring the sellout crowd to its feet.

Marcus Johansson, Marcus Foligno and Hartman also scored for the Wild. Filip Gustavsson, who did not play in Game 2, made 23 saves.

Edmonton Oilers vs Los Angeles Kings

Trevor Moore scored a power-play goal at 3:24 of overtime to give the Los Angeles Kings a 3-2 victory over the Edmonton Oilers in Game 3 of their Western Conference first-round playoff series.

After Ryan Nugent-Hopkins was called for high sticking at 1:44, Moore, who grew up in nearby Thousand Oaks, California, took Gabriel Vilardi‘s pass from behind the net and put it between the legs of Edmonton goaltender Stuart Skinner to give the Kings their second OT victory of the series.

Edmonton’s Connor McDavid had the second multi-goal playoff game of his career. Evan Bouchard had a pair of assists, and Skinner made 28 saves.