Ondrej Palat had not scored in the NHL since February.
Then the Tampa Bay striker splashed the decision in overtime against Boston and made sure that Tampa Bay equalized in the quarterfinal series.
Less than a day later, it was time again. In numerical superiority in the team's third meeting, the 29-year-old got the puck in the left technical circle and Jaroslav Halak in the Boston goal was set by his shot, via defending Zdeno Charas club.
1-0 there was ten effective minutes later 3-0 and Tampa Bay had a grip on the match, a grip that the team never released.
Boston's top scorer Brad Marchand tried, and put a reduction, but it was only a temporary stop on Tampa Bay's trip to the final numbers 7-1.
Behind the numbers are, among other things, three goals in games with one more man on the ice - an ice break after 16 straight powerplay modes without finding a net. In Boston, Halak got enough after four goals conceded and handed over to Dan Vladar, who thus made his NHL debut.
With the big win, Floridalaget has taken a 2-1 lead in the Stanley Cup quarterfinals. Match four is played the night before Saturday, Swedish time.
Before the match, the players gathered to draw attention to the ongoing protests against racism and police violence that have flared up after this weekend's shooting of 29-year-old black American Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Blake was shot by police nearby but survived. Information has claimed that he is paralyzed from the waist down.