The Capitals, with four assists from a huge Evgeny Kuznetsov, win the fourth game of the Stanley Cup final and reach 3-1.This was supposed to be the final of Alex Ovechkin . The great star of the Washington Capitals has been the best player in the ice of the team for at least a decade and now came the opportunity of a lifetime: reach the elusive Stanley Cup. At no time has fallen from that role , nor has it lowered the internal pressure with phrases made in front of the gallery. On an emotional level, Ovechkin has behaved like someone who is very aware of what is being played, nothing less than achieving the goal of a life, the history of an eternally losing franchise and a city that has a losing streak in the great American leagues like to be the joke of the whole country.And yet, or perhaps because of that, the final belongs to his most renowned partner. Evgeny Kuznetsov is being the best player in the final of the Stanley Cup 2018 and there is no one to approach him. The great skater gave, yesterday, four assists more than adding to his statistic to push the Washington Capitals to a result of 6-2 over the Vegas Golden Knights. This puts the 3-1 in the series to the best of seven games so in the capital are a single victory to take the ring and in Las Vegas are on the edge of the precipice in this inaugural season as a franchise, which is said soon.The field factor has not been especially important for the Capitals in these playoffs. Before reaching the final of the Stanley Cup they had more victories away from home than on their track. In fact, they had a negative record in their pavilion. That was before the last two meetings. In them, the public has been an essential part of their two triumphs.Kuznetsov himself, honored every time he played the pill, wanted to turn a deaf ear to the song of "We want the Cup" that thundered in the last period of yesterday's match. "You still have to win a game.We can not stop now. You still have to win a game. But it is evident that all this energy is infecting us. It's being an incredible audience. "And there is an incredible team on ice to make those Washington fans go crazy. In the first period of this fourth game they were already 3-0 up . TJ Oshie and Matt Niskanen arrived on the Metro in the pavilion, to the delight of their supporters, and the first was the one who opened the scoring pass, of course, Kuznetsov. The second was in charge of assisting in the third goal.The Golden Knights have seen all this offensive explosion of a defensive team such as the Capitals between a feeling of disbelief and annoyance. Because they have not been swept, as some markers may indicate, but they have suffered a severe lack of luck at key moments. Up to seven clubs have accumulated in the last two games in Washington and have managed to dominate by 10-2 at times of danger to Washington in the first period yesterday while the score did not stop giving them back.However, they are a team of enormous courage. This group of outlaws and fallen in disgrace have not broken all the forecasts and have planted here to surrender. Facing the last period of the game with a 4-0 against, they dominated and pressed tirelessly. So much that they went to get 4-2, after goals by James Neal and Reilly Smith, and took the nervousness to the rival ranks. Michal Kempny reassured Washington with 5-2 and, with everything decided, Brett Connolly round the matter with the final 6-2.There were, as in the previous three games, very bad blows and bad blood between both groups. And so it will continue to be. There is real animosity in the ice. So much tension resulted in a tangana that showed that these two templates are not going to exchange Christmas cards in the coming holidays.The fifth game, which will be final if the Capitals win it, is played in the early hours of Thursday to Friday in Las Vegas. The Golden Knights, the most unlikely of the finalists of the American sport, will sell their defeat very expensive. They have done nothing else in the whole year to challenge fate and now they have the hardest test of all: winning three straight matches to the Washington Capitals to win the Stanley Cup.
