Jackpot! Vegas Golden Knights trounce Panthers in Game 5 to claim Stanley Cup

16.06.2023 - 05:40 theguardian.com

The Golden Knights delivered their city a true Vegas-style party from dazzling passes to Mark Stone’s hat trick to all-out goal celebrations, capturing the young organization’s first Stanley Cup with a 9-3 romp over the beaten up and exhausted Florida Panthers on Tuesday night.

Coach Bruce Cassidy, in a nod to the Knights’ brief history, started five of the original Vegas players known as the Misfits and put the sixth on the second shift.

Cassidy sounded confident the day before the game that his team would play well, and it certainly did, blowing open a one-goal game in the second period to lead 6-1.

The nine goals tied the record for the most in a Cup final. “Vegas, you certainly know how to throw a party,” NHL commissioner Gary Bettman told the crowd. “What’s going on inside this arena and outside is incredible and a testament to what a great hockey market this is. “What has happened here has been simply incredible.

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