The Golden Knights, with an enraged audience, turn the score twice against the Capitals and take the lead in the Stanley Cup.
Is the final of the Stanley Cup of a team as unique as Vegas Golden Knights could start differently with several records and an atmosphere of general madness, surreal, film and special effects to tutiplen? Of course not.
The Golden Knights have gone 1-0 in the NHL final over the Washington Capitals by winning 6-4 in the first match of the Stanley Cup bout. During three hours of tension, top-level sports show, hits and goals, the fans of Las Vegas turned the T-Mobile Arena into a boiler in which it is surprising to see that the ice does not melt instantly.
It was not on this occasion his great star, goalkeeper Marc-Andre Fleury, the greatest defender of the victory. Twice the Golden Knights came back to a Capitals that have a lot of outstanding accounts with history and are not willing to play the role of comparsas in the unprecedented attempt of a team in its first year of existence winning one of the big leagues Americans
Collin Miller scored the first for Vegas, with the game just started, but Washington came back in just 43 seconds , which was what it took Brett Connolly and Nicklas Backstrom, recovered for the cause of the capital, to score two goals. It was the first of the four changes of leadership in the score of the night, something that had never happened in a first game of a Stanley Cup.
He had not finished the first period and the fears of heart attacks in the stands were followed : William Karlsson, with his seventh goal of the playoffs, tied the duel two. Take and give in the second half, with Reilly Smith scoring for the Golden Knights and John Carlsson for the Capitals and, just after the final 20 minutes, Tom Wilson ahead of the visitors.
Drama. Many blows. One of them was the star of Washington, Alex Ovechkin, who raised fears for his health. And, with the stand about to jump on the ice to mark themselves, the final explosion of Vegas that, with Ryan Reaves and Tomas Nosek, put the 5-4 that, in the end, would be final . Because the sixth, and last, goal of the meeting came with the Capitals thrown without a goalkeeper to the great comeback. He also scored, Nosek, and made this match the most goalscorer in the final since 2010.
No, we could not expect anything else. We are facing a Stanley Cup in which the NHL title will win a brand new team, in a crazy city without a hockey tradition, or the eternal losers of the league, a city used to sporting failure like almost none in the United States. That it is something similar to an asylum from beginning to end is logical.
