Carolina and Vegas battle in the fifth final.
Sebastian Aho has had to twist violently in the finals. PDO
The Carolina Hurricanes and Vegas Golden Knights square off in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Finals in Raleigh.
The stakes of the match are huge: the winner has the chance to secure the championship in the next match.
In the second set, Carolina’s much-maligned number one chain emerged.
Initially Andrei Svetshnikov shot the Hurricanes to a 2–1 lead with a power play, and later the Finnish star Sebastian Aho finished the game 3–1.
Jordan Martinook won the duel behind the Vegas goal, and the puck was then played to Aho, who rose from the weightless side towards the goal.
Aho skillfully took control of the puck with his skates and lifted the puck with one touch from a small corner right into the roof of the goal.
– That’s skill, Viaplay’s NHL commentator Antti Mäkinen glowed.
Aho and Carolina’s first chain have received criticism during the playoffs when the chain has not managed to score.
In the final series, Aho has played at a point per game pace.
Spectator hockey
Vegas opened the scoring taps of the match in 6:52, after struggling with scoring in the finals Pavel Dorofeev shot the puck with superiority from a direct attack into the goal.
by Nikolaj Ehlers threw the puck into the stands, and the ice backfired.
Captain of Carolina Jordan Staal managed to score already in the fifth final in a row, when he leveled the game in 11:46.
The hit was the Hurricanes skipper’s sixth in this final series.
In the opening set, Carolina’s big stars fell into mistakes.
In addition to Ehlers, a star defender K’Ander Miller brought the puck into the stands in the very last seconds of the opening set.
Luckily for Carolina, Miller’s penalty didn’t backfire right away at the start of the second period.