Stone scores three times in deciding game, Marchessault named playoff MVP.
Captain Mark Stone scored the first goal and lifted his team’s first Stanley Cup on Tuesday night, as the Golden Knights beat the Florida Panthers 9-3 at T-Mobile Arena to win the final series in five games and have owner Bill Foley’s expansion gamble of hockey in the desert pay off.
“It’s hard to come up with the words, it’s the greatest feeling in the world,” Eichel said. “To go on a run like this, it’s hard to process when it’s happening. But when you see the Cup, it’s a pretty special feeling.”“It’s a surreal feeling,” said Marchessault. “The Cup is a tough trophy to win. The is great, but it could have been any one of our guys.”
Tkachuk might have been the star of the playoffs, leading the Panthers with 11 goals, 13 assists and 24 points. Sergei Bobrovsky, despite the lopsided nature of the finale, re-established himself as a premier NHL goalie. But the Knights were simply too much, with four deep lines that were creative and offensive-minded, and a set of six big defencemen who were hard to beat.
“I think this team is the darling of Vegas, particularly for the full-time residents that live here, who were craving something that would confer major-league status on what was the largest major city without a major-league team,” NHL commissioner Gary Bettman said on the eve of the final. And former Buffalo captain Jack Eichel came in a trade that ended a standoff with the Sabres over artificial disk-replacement surgery that the player wanted and the team wouldn’t approve. “The motivation was to acquire a No. 1 centre,” McCrimmon said. “One of the things our scouts felt strongly about him that was underappreciated was his competitiveness. His physical strength and his competitiveness have really been on display.
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