If Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final was largely a case of Washington giveth and Vegas taketh away, Game 2 was a matter of the Capitals not giving anything more away.
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He once went an all-time NHL record of 332 minutes, 1 second without allowing a goal. So if there’s anybody qualified to talk about how red-hot playoff goalies can go tepid, it’s Brian Boucher.
Like leading scorer William Karlsson, Vegas Golden Knights’ good-luck charm Stanley the ceramic rooster has become a successful reclamation project in the team’s quest for the Stanley Cup.
NBC’s Doc Emrick is looking forward to experiencing the roar at T-Mobile Arena as the upstart Golden Knights host the Washington Captials in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final.
He was a season-ticket holder for the original Washington Capitals, but Las Vegas resident Arnold Schneider was sporting a Golden Knights cap and golf shirt Friday morning at City National Arena.
By now, you’ve probably seen the asterisk or the parentheses, which is how one TV graphic listed the 1967-68 St. Louis Blues in context with the Golden Knights and making it to the Stanley Cup Final as an expansion team.
If it turns out to be Washington against the Golden Knights in the Stanley Cup Final, former Las Vegas Thunder general manager Bob Strumm will be pulling for Vegas and thinking of longtime pal Bryan Murray, the former Capitals coach.
Before he served as captain for the inaugural Las Vegas Thunder, Jim Kyte spent seven years manning the blue line for the first iteration of the Winnipeg Jets and played in the first Winnipeg whiteout.
It has been a quarter-century since a Canadian-based franchise has hoisted the Stanley Cup, which has become something of an issue north of the border.
It wasn’t exactly Joe Namath guaranteeing a victory at the Miami Touchdown Club three days before Super Bowl III. But when the Golden Knights’ Jonathan Marchessault spoke his mind before Game 2 of the Western Conference Final, the Golden Knights responded.