Carter Hart made 20 saves for the Golden Knights, who had 1-0 and 2-1 series leads in the Stanley Cup Final. It’s Hall over Hall took a stretch pass from Jaccob Slavin, skated in on a partial break down the left wing and wired a wrister an inch under Hart’s glove to give the Hurricanes a 1-0 lead at 3:47 of the first period. It was Hall’s 11th road point of the playoffs, a new franchise record. He had nine points (three goals, six assists)
in four series-clinching games this post-season. Best forward trio in the playoffs? The Hurricanes’ second line went to work again midway through the second. After a couple chances of his own, Logan Stankoven gathered the puck off a misplay from Noah Hanifin and then found Blake in the right slot for a one-timer that deflected off Mitch Marner’s stick and in for the 2-0 lead at 13:31. Of Carolina’s 16 goals in series-clinching games this post-season, at least one of Hall, Blake and Stankoven was
in on 10 of them. Nikolaj Ehlers sealed the deal with an empty-net goal at 18:52 of the third period for the 3-0 final. Ehlers and Andersen became the second and third Danish Stanley Cup winners in NHL history after Lars Eller won it with the Washington Capitals in the same building back in 2018. That was a series for the ages. “And the Conn Smythe goes to…” Before the Canes hoisted the Cup, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman handed the Conn Smythe Trophy to playoff
MVP Jordan Staal, who scored in each of the first five games of the championship series, the longest streak in Cup Final history. Six of Staal’s eight playoff goals came in the final. At 37-years-old, he is the oldest player in NHL history to win the trophy. The honour comes 17 years after Staal won the championship with the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2009, the longest span between Cups for a player in league history.
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Brandon Bussi sounds like the real reason they won, idk who half those guys are.
So it was 3-0? Wild. I swear I saw Carter Hart get beat like that one time and then it just snowballed. Conn Smythe to Jordan Staal is crazy too, 37 is old in hockey time.
I’m confused on the “Shuts down” part because the article says Carter Hart made 20 saves? Like that means he was actually letting less in, not that Bussi did anything. Also Hall over Hall?? Isn’t that a museum or something.
Jordan Staal scoring in the first five games sounds fake lol. But if it’s true, that’s like… unheard of. Empty net goal at 18:52 too, classic end of game stuff. Also Danish Stanley Cup winners in the same building?? I didn’t know that mattered at all, but I guess it does.