Levi Slams the Door on Rangers in Edmonton
Draisaitl's empty-net goal seals it after New York fires away all night and Garand takes the loss at the other end.
Written during the game · 10:45 PM ET. Final was NYR 1, EDM 3.
The Rangers had the better of the play all night and still lost, because Devon Levi stopped nearly everything they threw at him. The Oilers beat New York 3-1, final after 60:00 of game time in the 3rd.
Levi made 28 saves on 29 shots. Of the Rangers' 12 high-danger chances on him, he stopped 11. The Rangers' chances were worth 3.3 expected goals (how many goals the chances should have produced), and they scored once. That gap is about 2.3 goals saved above expected for Levi.
The Rangers led shot attempts 59-40 and shots on goal 29-20. They went 0 for 6 on the power play. Their only goal was shorthanded, by Jaroslav Chmelar at 5:05 of the 2nd, which cut it to 2-1.
Connor McDavid scored first and Leon Draisaitl added a goal in the 2nd. Draisaitl also sealed it with an empty-net goal at 18:47 of the 3rd. Pavel Dorofeyev put six shots on net for New York and had nothing to show for it.
