The Vegas Golden Knights have the Stanley Cup the North American professional ice hockey league NHL won. The team off Las Vegas crowned champions for the first time in club history.
With 4:1 after victories, the Golden Knights decided the final series against the Florida Panthers for themselves. On Tuesday, head coach Bruce Cassidy’s team clinched the decisive victory in the Best of sevenseries with a furious 9: 3 (2: 0, 4: 1, 3: 2) home win.
With nine goals, the Golden Knights set the 81-year-old NHL Finals record. only the Toronto Maple Leafs 1942 and the Detroit Red Wings 1936 had in league history in a game of Stanley cups also hit nine times.
Stone scores three times for the Golden Knights
Mark Stone scored three times, the Canadian national striker gave Las Vegas a 1-0 lead in the middle of the first period and later scored two more goals.
However, the hosts really got going in the second half: they scored four goals within ten minutes and took a decisive lead to 6:1. Jonathan Marchessault didn’t score this time, but with 13 goals and 12 assists in the finals, Las Vegas’ top scorer but to the most valuable player of the playoffs excellent.
Founded just six years ago
Formed in 2017, the Vegas Golden Knights were capping just their sixth NHL season with the championship after losing the Finals in their debut season. A team in the North American ice hockey league has never won its first title so quickly. They had the previous record Philadelphia Flyers held, who celebrated their first championship in their seventh season in 1973/74.