Hurricanes beat Golden Knights in Game 5 to take 3-2 lead in Stanley Cup Finals
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This Stanley Cup final between the Carolina Hurricanes and the Vegas Golden Knights was one of the most recent, if not the most memorable.
After four exciting games, including two crazy games in Vegas, the series returned to Raleigh for Game 5, with the two teams tied at 2-2.
This has been one of the slowest starts in a series full of quick strikes, but one thing that has remained the same throughout? Self-harm punishments.
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Vegas’ Pavel Dorofeyev opened the scoring in Game 5 with a power play goal. (Photos by James Guillory-Imagn)
The Hurricanes were whistled for one of those minutes before halftime when Nikolaj Ehlers shot the puck over the glass, and it didn’t take long for Vegas to make them pay.
Golden Knights forward Pavel Dorofeyev capitalized on the ensuing power play, burying Vegas’ first shot of the night off a feed from Jack Eichel.
However, minutes later, Hurricanes captain Jordan Staal – who is in the final Cup of his career – extended his scoring streak to five games on a slick redirect from Ehlers (redemption!) to make things right.
That tied the record for the longest goal streak in Stanley Cup Final history. Staal had just two goals this season before the series began.
Hurricanes captain Jordan Staal tied the final Stanley Cup record for hitting in five consecutive games of the series. (Photos by Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn)
Carolina opened the second half killing another penalty – another delay of game, if you can believe that – but it was consecutive Vegas penalties that led to the Hurricanes’ goal.
Just one second after the Golden Knights killed Jeremy Lauzon’s penalty, Brayden McNabb took a foul-checking penalty to put Carolina back on the power play.
That’s when Andrei Svechnikov gave the Canes a 2-1 lead.
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Svechnikov was one of the Canes’ big guns that needed to get in the scoring column. Another one? Sebastian Aho, and he did just that a few minutes later.
As if things weren’t bad enough for the Golden Knights in the second frame, one of their key players, William Karlsson, left the game and never returned.
Moving on to the third, where the story continued to be the Golden Knights taking bad penalties, something out of character for them.
This time, it was their captain Mark Stone who cut off Carolina’s Jalen Chatfield with a high stick. Worse, he caught her enough to draw blood, giving himself a double.
The Hurricanes converted one with Svechnikov scoring his second of the evening to give them a 4-1 lead.
If you’ve watched any of these series, you’ll know that nothing comes easy, and shortly after Carolina extended their lead, Dorofeyev scored his second of the game to cut the deficit to two.
And then, as has happened in almost every game of this series, that goal came with Vegas’ momentum leading to more scoring chances.
Carolina held on, but with just 2:13 left, Nikolaj Ehlers was whistled for delay of game.
Vegas then pulled the goalie for a 6-on-4 power play.
The Golden Knights created and had good chances, including one by Tomas Hertl that was robbed by Bussi – who made 22 of 24 shots – with 80 seconds left in regulation.
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A late penalty kill gave the Canes carte blanche to take a 200-yard shot on an empty net, and that helped bleed time off the clock and help them hold onto that 4-2 lead.
Carolina now leads the series 3-2 as they return to Vegas’ T-Mobile Arena on Sunday, where the Hurricanes will have a chance to win their second Stanley Cup in franchise history.
