Here are live updates for game one of the 2023 Stanley Cup Finals between the Vegas Golden Knights and Florida Panthers from T-Mobile Arena in Vegas.
8:23 PM ET–Aaron Ekblad shot from the point blocked by the Golden Knights.
8:24 PM ET–Matt Tkachuk shot wide.
8:25 PM ET–Golden Knights captain Mark Stone fines himself all alone with a great scoring chance, but great save by Sergei Bobrovsky.
8:27 PM–Stoppage as Panthers are offside.
8:28 PM–Shots on goal after five minutes are 3-2 Vegas.
8:30 PM ET–Ekblad having an impact offensively and defensively for the Panthers in the early going.
8:32 PM ET–Panthers may have been 19 points back of the Golden Knights during the regular season, but the play has been relatively even so far.
8:34 PM ET–Great save by Golden Knights goaltender Adin Hill off a closeup shot by Anton Lundell.
8:36 PM–Scrum in front of Golden Knights net after a couple of close scoring chances by Florida.
8:37 PM ET–Nick Cousins takes roughing penalty…both penalty killing units have been poor in the postseason….power play for Vegas…
8:39 PM ET–Shorthanded goal by Eric Staal of Thunder Bay, Ontario on a wrap around…Lundell has an assist…1-0 Panthers…time of goal…9:40…
8:42 PM ET–Shots on goal after 10 minutes are 7-3 Florida…
8:44 PM ET–Panthers power play after Carrier roughing penalty…
8:52 PM ET–Report that Panthers defenseman Radko Gudas went to the locker room after the scrum in front of Hill and has not returned…
8:54 pm ET–Panthers have 8-3 shot on goal lead with five minutes left in the first period…
8:57 PM ET–Panthers defenseman Josh Mahura given an interference penalty…Golden Knights power play…
8:59 PM ET–Jonathan Marchessault of Cap-Rouge, Quebec continues his great playoff with a power-play marker…open in the slot and ties the game at 1 with his 10th goal of the 2023 postseason….Shea Theodore and Chandler Stephenson notch the assists…time of goal 17:18…
8:59 PM ET–First period over…Florida outshoots Vegas 9-8 after one,,,game tied at one…
9:22 PM ET–Second Period Starting…
9:23 PM ET–Highlight reel save by Hill on Cousins keeps the game tied…
9:25 PM ET–Gudas returns to the Panthers bench…
9:27 PM ET–Mahura has his second penalty of the game…this time for tripping…Golden Knights power play…
9:28 PM ET–Shots on goal five minutes into the second period is 11-11…
9:38 PM ET–Nice pad save by Hill off Panthers captain Aleksander Barkov…
9:40 PM ET–Sam Bennett gets his own rebound, but once again Hill makes a save…
9:41 PM ET–Shots on goal at the halfway point of the second period is 15-13 Vegas…
9:43 PM ET–Great shift by Golden Knights defenseman Shea Theodore of Langley, British Columbia…generates numerous scoring chances before putting Vegas up 2-1…scores with a shot from the point as Brayden McNabb and Brett Howden had the assists…
9:46 PM ET–Panthers trailing for the first time in 185 minutes and two seconds…
9:53 PM ET–Theodore given hooking penalty on Panthers defenseman Brandon Montour…former teammates in Anaheim…
9:55 PM ET–Shots on goal with five minutes left in the 2nd period…19-17 Vegas…
1o:01 PM ET–Stephenson cross-checks Cousins from behind hard into the boards with one minute left in second period…no penalty called…definite miss call by the referees…
10:04 PM ET–strong last minute surge by the Panthers…Montour hits the post and Hill makes nice save off of Ryan Lomberg…
10:05 PM ET–Anthony Duclair of Pointe-Claire, Quebec scores with 11 seconds left in the second period…Panthers won a late second period faceoff by Barkov…pass back to Duclair who tied the game at two…
10:05 PM ET–Florida outshoots Vegas 22-21 after two periods…
10:26 PM ET–Third period starting…
10:26 PM ET–Another close game for the Panthers…they have played in eight straight one goal games…in that time they have a record of seven wins and one loss…
10:32 PM ET–Bobrovsky makes save off Howden on the breakaway…
10:34 PM ET–Panthers have 27-22 shot advantage after 45 minutes…
10:34 PM ET–Panthers get lucky as Bobrovsky comes out of his net to make the save…
10:36 PM ET–Another shot from the point puts Golden Knights up 3-2…Zach Whitecloud of Brandon, Manitoba is the goal scorer here…Whitecloud gets revenge as Duclair’s second period goal deflected off of him to temporarily tie the game at two…Ivan Barbashev and Jack Eichel had the assists…goal came at 6:59 of the final stanza…
10:39 PM ET–Nicolas Roy given a hooking penalty…Panthers power-play…
10:43 PM ET–Staal cross checks Barbashev…Golden Knights power-play…with 10 minutes left…Panthers have the 29-25 shot advantage….
10:52 PM ET–Golden Knights captain Mark Stone of Winnipeg, Manitoba bats puck out of the air and scores…4-2 Vegas…Florida challenging for a high-stick…goal stands and Panthers given a delay of game penalty….unassisted with six minutes and 19 seconds left…
10:56 PM ET–With five minutes left, Florida has 32-29 shot advantage…
10:59 PM ET–Bennett, Stephenson and Tkachuk given roughing penalties…Tkachuk’s roughing penalty was four minutes…Golden Knights have power-play for most of the rest of the game…
11:05 PM ET–Hill makes save off of Reinhart on the breakaway…
11:06 PM ET–Reilly Smith of Mimico, Ontario scores an empty netter with one minute and 46 seconds left in the third period…5-2 Golden Knights to take a 1-0 series lead…
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