The Vegas Golden Knights have the opportunity to win the Stanley Cup in their sixth year of existence on Tuesday night. They currently lead the Florida Panthers three games to one in the best out of seven series. Here are the live updates. One thing to keep in mind is the fact the Panthers are without Matt Tkachuk, who has an upper body injury.
8:24 PM ET–Great Panthers scoring chance early as Jack Eichel gives the puck away to Panthers center Anton Lundell…Lundell goes on the breakaway, but great pad save made by Adin Hill of the Golden Knights…
8:29 PM ET–Panthers have the 5-2 shot advantage after first five minutes…
8:35 PM ET–Ekblad interference penalty…Golden Knights power-play…
8:39 PM ET–Shots on goal at 10 minute mark is 6-6…
8:40 PM ET–Panthers power-play after Kolesar penalty…
8:43 PM ET–Great save by Hill off Barkov…
8:44 PM ET–Shorthanded goal by Mark Stone of Winnipeg, Manitoba puts Golden Knights up 1-0…Vegas goal by Golden Knights captain came moments after Panthers captain had a great chance…unassisted marker came at 11:52 of first period…
8:47 PM ET–Golden Knights score on an odd-man rush…this time by Nicolas Hague of Kitchener, Ontario who went up ice with Jack Eichel…some controversy here as there was a belief that Sergei Bobrovsky had possession of the puck and the whistle blew but the goal stood…goal came with 6:19 left in the first period…2-0 Vegas
8:53 PM ET–Shots on goal 11-8 Vegas with five minutes left in first period…
9:00 PM ET–First period is over…2-0 Vegas…shots on goal…11-8 Vegas…
9:19 PM ET–Second period starting…Golden Knights are 40 minutes away from first Stanley Cup ever…could be second franchise in two nights to win first championship in franchise history, following the Denver Nuggets of the NBA on Monday…
9:22 PM ET–Panthers pull within one…goal by Aaron Ekblad of Windsor, Ontario…Ekblad scored from Nick Cousins at 2:15 of the middle frame…Panthers now have 11 goals from their defensemen in the playoffs which leads all teams….Ekblad’s goal was a shot from the point…
9:25 PM ET–Shots on goal five minutes into the second period is 11-10 Vegas…
9:33 PM ET–Barbashev and Marchessault have great scoring chances but cannot get two goal lead again…
9:34 PM ET–15-12 Vegas shots on goal at midway point of the game…
9:35 PM ET–Alec Martinez of Rochester Hills, Michigan scores top shelf (where Mama hides the cookies according to Sabres play-by-play announcer Rick Jenneret)…3-1 Vegas…from Eichel and Alex Pietrangelo at 10:28…Martinez’s second goal of the playoffs…
9:37 PM ET–Reilly Smith of Mimico, Ontario scores one minute and 35 seconds after Martinez on the rebound…William Karlsson and Shea Theodore…4-1 Vegas…
9:44 PM ET–21-13 Golden Knights shots on goal with five minutes left in the second period…
9:44 PM ET–Great save by Hill off of Cousins…
9:47 PM ET–Blowout in Nevada…Stone scores his second of the game from Howden and Marchessault…5-1 Vegas late in the first…
9:54 PM ET–Michael Armadio of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario scores a goal that trickles under Bobrovsky’s pad with two seconds left in the second period…6-1 Vegas…
10:18 PM ET–Third period starting…Vegas has six goals on 25 shots…
10:22 PM ET–25-20 Vegas shots on goal five minutes into the third period…
10:27 PM ET–Stone shoots wide on breakaway…
10:28 PM ET–Hill makes great glove save off Duclair…
10:31 PM ET–Ivan Barbashev of Moscow, Russia puts Golden Knights up 7-1 from Eichel and Theodore…
10:32 PM ET–moments later Sam Reinhart of West Vancouver, British Columbia pulled the Panthers within five…7-2 Vegas
10:34 PM ET–Shots on goal are 27 each with 10 minutes left…
10:38 PM ET–own goal by Vegas…Sam Bennett of Holland Landing scores as Pietrangelo tips the puck in the net…7-3 Vegas
10:40 PM ET–interesting goalie stat…Bobrovsky is making $10 million and Hill is making $2.7 million…who would you take in a meaningful game?…answer is Hill and is not even remotely close…
10:42 PM ET–Golden Knights go up 8-3…Stone scores into an empty net with 5:54 left in the third period….
10:47 PM ET–Florida has the 33-29 lead in shots with five minutes left…
10:54 PM ET–Golden Knights set NHL record for most goals in a Stanley Cup clinching game…Nicolas Roy of Amos, Quebec put the Golden Knights up 9-3… Vegas wins 2023 Stanley Cup…
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