This wasn’t the Stanley Cup Final, but instead a Tuesday night in early December that saw Vegas beat Washington 5-3 in the most dramatic of ways before a deafening 18,275 at T-Mobile Arena.
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Philadelphia wasn’t suffering from any sort of Vegas Flu but made the Golden Knights look ill, rolling to a 5-2 win Thursday night before a crowd of 18,555 at T-Mobile Arena.
It has been true all along that the Golden Knights could prove even better than last season and still not come close to advancing as far in the playoffs.
Teams with a 3-1 lead have won the Cup 31 straight times, an advantage Washington now owns following a 6-2 victory on Monday night at Capital One Arena.
Vegas coach Gerard Gallant like to say he rolls out four lines indistinguishable of each other, but the Knights beat San Jose 5-3 on Friday night because the sort of secondary scoring that has been difficult to discover of late came through.
We are 48 hours from the Knights playing at Dallas and officially bringing Las Vegas its first major league professional sports franchise, and as things stood Wednesday, it won’t be seen on the valley’s largest cable provider.