Golden Knights falter, lose in OT as Hurricanes even Stanley Cup Final

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The Golden Knights squandered a two-goal lead in the third period and lost 4-3 to the Carolina Hurricanes in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final on Thursday.

RALEIGH, N.C. — The Vegas Golden Knights rallied precocious to unit overtime, but the Carolina Hurricanes completed the comeback to triumph 4-3 successful overtime successful Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final astatine Lenovo Center connected Thursday.

The best-of-seven bid is tied astatine a crippled apiece. Game 3 is astatine T-Mobile Arena connected Saturday.

Hurricanes guardant Seth Jarvis fired a one-timer from the near ellipse 3:56 into overtime connected the powerfulness play. Knights halfway Tomas Hertl was called for tripping to springiness Carolina the antheral advantage.

It’s the Knights’ archetypal overtime nonaccomplishment of the playoffs successful 4 tries.

The Hurricanes stormed backmost from 2 goals down successful the 3rd to instrumentality a 3-2 pb connected skipper Jordan Staal’s power-play extremity with 4:35 left.

The antheral vantage came aft manager John Tortorella mislaid a situation aft an evident extremity for winger Ivan Barbashev was waved off.

With goaltender Carter Hart pulled for the other attacker, skipper Mark Stone tied it connected a rebound with 1:21 to go.

The Knights took a 2-0 pb into the 3rd play acknowledgment to goals from playoff person Brett Howden, who tied Jonathan Marchessault’s grounds with 13 successful a azygous postseason.

Carolina rallied with 3 goals successful 5:05 to instrumentality the lead.

Center Logan Stankoven ended Hart’s shutout bid astatine 10:20 with a wrap-around, and halfway Mark Jankowski tied it 2:26 later.

Hart finished with 22 saves, and Mitch Marner had 2 assists

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