Avalanche’s Andre Burakovsky scores electric OT game-winner in Game

Avalanche’s Andre Burakovsky scores electric OT game-winner in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final

The 2022 Stanley Cup Final kicked off on Wednesday to extreme fanfare,

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with the back-to-back champions in the Tampa Bay Lightning taking on the high-flying Avalanche.

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Game 1 was an incredible showcase of the talent these two teams possess,

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with the Avalanche taking leads of 2-0 and 3-1 and the Lightning eventually battling back to force the game into overtime at 3-3.

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It was, however, a real quick overtime, as Burakovsky scored the game-winner just a minute and 23 seconds into the extra frame after

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What a set up by Valeri Nichushkin with that sick cross-ice pass that had Andrei Vasilevskiy well out of position to make the save on Burakovsky’s quick shot

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Thanks to Burakovsky’s second goal of these playoffs, the Avalanche now hold a 1-0 lead in the series with Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final set for Saturday.

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