RALEIGH, N.C. — The Vegas Golden Knights are connected the brink for the archetypal clip this twelvemonth aft losing 4-2 to the Carolina Hurricanes successful Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final astatine Lenovo Center connected Thursday.
The Hurricanes pb the bid 3-2 and volition person a accidental to triumph their 2nd Stanley Cup title successful franchise past successful Game 6 astatine T-Mobile Arena connected Sunday.
Pavel Dorofeyev scored doubly for his archetypal goals of the series. His archetypal extremity came connected a powerfulness play successful the archetypal play to unfastened the scoring.
But Carolina responded with 3 unanswered goals, including the tying extremity from skipper Jordan Staal to go the archetypal subordinate since 1953 to people a extremity successful the archetypal 5 games of the Stanley Cup Final.
Carolina added 2 goals successful the 2nd period. Forward Andrei Svechnikov scored connected a powerfulness play pursuing a cross-checking punishment connected defenseman Brayden McNabb, and halfway Sebastian Aho scored connected a tap-in.
Svechnikov added his 2nd extremity connected a tap-in pursuing a double-minor precocious instrumentality connected skipper Mark Stone.
The Knights entered Thursday outscoring Carolina 9-1 successful the 2nd play this series.
Goaltender Carter Hart allowed 4 goals for the 5th consecutive crippled this series.
Center William Karlsson near successful the 2nd play with an evident limb wounded and did not return. He near the arena to acquisition further testing.
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