RALEIGH, N.C. — The Vegas Golden Knights overcame an aboriginal two-goal shortage successful the archetypal play and rallied for a 5-4 triumph implicit the Carolina Hurricanes successful Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final astatine Lenovo Center connected Tuesday.
Center Tomas Hertl broke the necktie with 3:24 remaining disconnected a backhand assistance from winger Colton Sissons.
Defenseman Shea Theodore had a extremity and 2 assists, and defenseman Brayden McNabb recorded the archetypal three-assist crippled of his NHL career.
Game 2 is successful Raleigh connected Thursday.
The Knights were pushing uphill 25 seconds into the crippled erstwhile Carolina guardant Nik Ehlers scored the archetypal of 2 goals connected the archetypal changeable of the crippled disconnected a 2-on-1. Ehlers made it 2-0 connected a breakaway astatine 12:08.
Theodore answered with his 5th extremity of the playoffs 1:20 aboriginal to get the Knights connected the board.
Winger Ivan Barbashev and halfway William Karlsson added goals successful the 2nd period, and winger Brett Howden broke a 3-3 necktie 1:20 into the third.
Goaltender Carter Hart finished with 23 saves. The Knights improved to 3-0 all-time successful Game 1 of the Cup Final.
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