Vegas Golden Knights' Tomas Hertl (48) trips implicit Carolina Hurricanes goaltender Frederik Andersenn (31) during the 2nd play successful Game 1 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Final bid successful Raleigh, N.C., Tuesday, June 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Karl DeBlaker) (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.) (Karl B DeBlaker/AP Photo/Karl B DeBlaker)
Carolina Hurricanes' Andrei Svechnikov (37) battles for the puck betwixt Vegas Golden Knights' Brayden McNabb (3) and Tomas Hertl (48) during the 2nd play successful Game 1 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Final bid successful Raleigh, N.C., Tuesday, June 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Karl DeBlaker) (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.) (Karl B DeBlaker/AP Photo/Karl B DeBlaker)
Carolina Hurricanes' Nikolaj Ehlers (27) celebrates his extremity during the archetypal play successful Game 1 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Final bid against the Vegas Golden Knights successful Raleigh, N.C., Tuesday, June 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Karl DeBlaker) (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.) (Karl B DeBlaker/AP Photo/Karl B DeBlaker)
Vegas Golden Knights' Keegan Kolesar, middle, celebrates betwixt Carolina Hurricanes' Frederik Andersen (31) and Eric Robinson (50) aft a extremity scored by Golden Knights' Shea Theodore successful the archetypal play of Game 1 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Final bid successful Raleigh, N.C., Tuesday, June 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Ben McKeown) (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.) (Ben McKeown/AP Photo/Ben McKeown)
Carolina Hurricanes' Nikolaj Ehlers (27) slips the puck past Vegas Golden Knights goaltender Carter Hart (79) for a extremity during the archetypal play successful Game 1 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Final bid successful Raleigh, N.C., Tuesday, June 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Karl DeBlaker) (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.) (Karl B DeBlaker/AP Photo/Karl B DeBlaker)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Tomas Hertl took a backhand walk from Colton Sisson and bushed Frederik Anderson from the slot with 3:24 near successful the 3rd period, lifting the Vegas Golden Knights past the Carolina Hurricanes 5-4 successful Tuesday night’s opener of the Stanley Cup Final.
Hertl’s decorativeness disconnected Sisson’s provender from the close faceoff ellipse broke a 4-4 necktie and pushed the Golden Knights up successful an entertaining back-and-forth commencement connected the sport’s biggest stage. It marked Vegas’ seventh consecutive triumph of the playoffs, starting with the past 2 games of the six-game second-round bid against Anaheim and past the shocking four-game expanse of the Presidents’ Trophy-winning Colorado Avalanche.
That bid included Vegas erasing a 3-0 shortage to instrumentality Game 3, and present the Golden Knights person followed by rallying from different multigoal shortage -- this clip 2-0 successful the opening play -- against the squad that finished 2nd lone to the Avs successful the regular season.
Game 2 of the best-of-seven bid is Thursday successful Raleigh.
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