Here are live updates for game two of the 2023 Stanley Cup Finals between the Vegas Golden Knights and Florida Panthers from T-Mobile Arena in Vegas. The Golden Knights won game one of the series on Saturday by a score of 5-2.
8:28 PM ET–Nice save by Adin Hill off a Panthers clear faceoff win. That is how Anthony Duclair scored in game one on Saturday. The Panthers have the decisive edge on the Golden Knights in the faceoff so far…
8:33 PM ET–Massive hit by Ivan Barbashev on Radko Gudas. Earlier in the period, William Carrier and Keegan Kolesar hit Ryan Lomberg after Lomberg cross-checked Jonathan Marchessault around the ear area. Game is very physical to date…
8:35 PM ET–Lomberg given a cross-checking penalty…
8:36 PM ET–Jonathan Marchessault opens the scoring with a power-play goal to put Golden Knights up 1-0…Chandler Stephenson and Jack Eichel had the assists at 7:05 of the first period….shot from the slot beats Sergei Bobrovsky…Marchessault’s 11 postseason goals are a Golden Knights record for a single playoff…
8:44 PM ET–Golden Knights have 6-3 shots on goal advantage at 10 minute mark of first period…
8:46 PM ET–Golden Knights dominating play so far…
8:47 PM ET–Marchessault’s 11 goals breaks the record previously set by William Karlsson of Marsta, Sweden who has 10 goals…
8:48 PM ET–Brandon Montour given a roughing penalty on Marchessault for elbowing the Golden Knights forward while he was on the ice…
8:49 PM ET–Golden Knights have the 9-3 shots on goal advantage with five minutes left in the first period…
8:50 PM ET–Nicolas Roy given a hooking penalty…Panthers power-play….
8:52 PM ET–Great saves on the power-play by Hill off Sam Bennett and Aleksander Barkov…
8:53 PM ET–Golden Knights score right after killing the penalty…Alec Martinez of Rochester Hills, Michigan scores with shot over Bobrovsky’s shoulder…2-0 Vegas at 17:59 of the first period…Marchessault and Barbashev have the assists…
8:58 PM ET–First period over…shots on goal are 11-10 Vegas…
9:18 PM ET–3-0 Golden Knights…as Roy of Amos, Quebec scores at 2:59 of the second period…from William Carrier and Zach Whitecloud…
9:23 PM ET–14-12 Panthers shots on goal five minutes into second period…
9:24 PM ET–Panthers are dominating hits…up 19-8 at end of the first period…
9:26 PM ET–4-0 Golden Knights…great goal by Brett Howden of Oakbank, Manitoba after an impressive pass by captain Mark Stone…Panthers pull Bobrovsky…Stone hit Montour in the neutral zone immediately before the pass to Howden and actually lost his stick…Howden’s goal came at 7:10 of the second period…Stephenson also picked up another assist…
9:26 PM ET–Alex Lyon comes into the net for Florida…
9:29 PM ET–Duclair leaves game after being hit in the back of the neck off a slapshot by Ekblad…
9:30 PM ET–White and Barbashev roughing penalties…4 on 4…
9:34 PM ET–16-15 shots on goal Panthers at midway point of 2nd period…
9:36 PM ET–Pietrangelo given an interference penalty…Panthers power-play…Vegas kills penalty…
9:41 PM ET–another Golden Knights penalty…this time two minutes to Carrier for roughing Marc Staal…
9:42 PM ET–great glove save by Hill…
9:45 PM ET–Shots on goal with five minutes left in the second period is 21-15 Florida…
9:52 PM ET–Florida has decisive edge in hits…have 25 so far…huge hit by Tkachuk on Eichel…Tkachuk was given two minute penalty for roughing and 10 minute misconduct…Golden Knights not on the power play as penalties evened out after a melee that occurred….
9:53 PM ET–4-0 Golden Knights after two periods…
10:19 PM ET–Florida scores 19 seconds into third period…goal from Anton Lundell of Espoo, Finland from Duclair…puck went off of Martinez’s skate…4-1 Golden Knights…Vegas had scored the last seven goals in the series prior to the Lundell goal…
10:23 PM ET–Marchessault wide open in front of the net, scores from Eichel at 2:10 of third period…5-1 Golden Knights
10:24 PM ET–Verhaeghe cross-checks Pietrangelo…Vegas power-play…
10:28 PM ET–Panthers have shot advantage of 25-20 five minutes into the third period…
10:30 PM ET–Lyon makes glove save off Eichel…
10:33 PM ET–Golden Knights almost go up 6-1 on a great scoring chance…Amadio shot trickles along goal line but not over…
10:36 PM ET–26-23 Panthers shots on goal with 10 minutes left…
10:37 PM ET–Golden Knights have impressive rush…Michael Amadio of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario from William Karlsson at 10:33 of the third period…6-1 Vegas…
10:44 PM ET–Tkachuk scores on a slapshot for Florida…puck goes in and out…6-2 Golden Knights…scores from Josh Mohura and Sam Bennett…
10:47 PM ET—close scoring chance for Panthers…puck did not go over the line…
10:52 PM ET–Verhaeghe given cross-checking penalty…shots on goal 30-26 Florida…
10:55 PM ET–Brett Howden scores with just over two minutes left from Michael Amadio…7-2 Vegas
11:02 PM ET–Vegas wins 7-2 to take a 2-0 Stanley Cup Finals lead…
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