OREANDA-NEWS  Russian forward of the Colorado Avalanche Valery Nichushkin scored a goal in the fifth game of the National Hockey League (NHL) playoff series against the Winnipeg Jets. Statistics are available on the league's website.

The hockey player excelled at the beginning of the first period. This puck became his seventh in the current Stanley Cup and allowed him to top the list of the best snipers of the current playoffs.

The meeting ended with Colorado's victory with a score of 6:3. Thus, the team won the series to four wins with a score of 4-1. In the next round, they will play the winner of the Dallas Stars and Vegas Golden Knights pair.

Nichushkin is different in every match in the current Stanley Cup. In the fourth match of the series, he scored a hat-trick.