Artturi Lehkonen is no stranger to important goals in his NHL career, but his biggest just won the Colorado Avalanche the Stanley Cup!
The Avalanche bested the back-to-back champions — the Tampa Bay Lightning — in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup Final on Sunday night. A huge two-goal second period helped lift the Avalanche over the Lightning 2-1 by game’s end, with Nathan MacKinnon getting the 1-1 equalizer and then Lehkonen getting the follow up 10 minutes later for the game winner.
On a rush down the ice, Lehkonen snapped a quick shot that bested Andrei Vasilevskiy glove side, a shot that the veteran netminder had no chance of stopping with just how fast it came off the Avalanche forward’s stick.
