Adin Hill made 33 saves and Zach Whitecloud scored the go-ahead goal, highlighting a three-goal third quarter Vegas Golden Knightswho beat florida panthers Take a 5-2 lead in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup final in Las Vegas on Saturday night
Shea Theodore had a goal and an assist, Jack Eichel had two assists, and Jonathan Marchessault, Mark Stone and Reilly Smith also scored for Las Vegas. Game 2 of the best-of-seven series will take place Monday night in Las Vegas.
Eric Stahl scored an empty-handed goal and Anthony Duclair also scored for Florida, whose eight-game winning streak on the road was snapped. Sergey Bobrovski made 29 of 33 shots.
With the game tied 2-2, Whitecloud fired a long wrist shot from inside the blue line at 6:59 into the third quarter, over the glove of a blocked Bobrovsky.
Stone made it 4-2 with 6:19 left when he knocked down a clear pass inside the box and then flicked a wrist shot into the top right corner of the net, his post-season The seventh goal of the game. Smith hit an empty net with 1:45 left to seal the win.
Florida, playing its first game in 10 days after sweeping the Carolina Hurricanes in the Eastern Conference finals, took a 1-0 lead with 9:40 left on Starr’s second postseason goal, Didn’t show any rust.
this black panther Nick Cousins was sent off for roughing Hill during a scrimmage around goal when Starr broke the left wing and shot around the left post and off diving Hill’s stick
With 17:18 left in the game, Vegas tied the game at 1-1 with a powerful goal from Marchessault. Chandler Stephenson scores with a backhand pass off the backboard. Marchessault was left alone and buried his 10th goal of the playoffs.
Florida State had a chance to retake the lead early in the second quarter when Matthew Tkachuk found Cousins standing alone in the open, but Hill lunged toward the left post with his ball The end of the pole blocked Cousins’ attempted goal line on an empty net.
this Golden Knights It then made it 2-1 at the 10:54 mark of the second quarter when Theodore fired a wrist shot from above the circle.It was Theodore’s first goal of the playoffs
this black panther With 11 seconds left, Alexander Barkov confronted Duclair on the right circle, and Duclair quickly fired his wrist through Hill’s pad for his fourth goal of the playoffs.
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