While giving a postgame interview on the ice following Game 5 in Vegas, it became pretty clear that Oshie wanted to win one not only for himself, but also for his dad, who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease.
Advertisement
But the Golden Knights, who entered the game 10-0 in the playoffs when leading after two periods, were unable to hold the Caps at bay and the visitors tied the game midway through the third when Devante Smith-Pelly scored from in close as he was falling to the ice. After a grueling playoffs, the Caps knocked off the Las Vegas Golden Knights to bring home the Cup.
A few minutes earlier, thousands of Knights fans were on their feet cheering for their team. “We knew we were going to get some looks [in Game 5] and we were going to capitalize, and that’s what we did”.
Both teams had something to celebrate. My head says to take Vegas here – they’ve got the hottest goaltender and I love their ability to suffocate teams with speed and pressure on the puck – but my heart says Capitals.
An inaugural season like no other ended on a bittersweet note for an expansion team like no other.
The championship is the first by a Washington professional sports team in the NFL, NBA, NHL or Major League Baseball since the Redskins won the Super Bowl on January 26, 1992. I am in no way saying the Caps “lucked” their way into winning that series. Just before the halfway mark of the period, Washington tied it up again.
“I don’t like the bird man”, Cherry said, referring to Kuznetsov, during an interview with ABC 7 Sports Washington. They got a barn-burner of a finale befitting this thrilling series, with wild shifts of momentum before that weird clock incident that didn’t appear to affect the outcome. “There’s not a chance they will score”.
However, his stint at the Oilers was short-lived, with the Canadian side placing him back onto waivers on December 19th, after which Washington re-claimed him and he returned to D.C. “There is no way we can count our team out and we are VGK proud with any outcome”. Now his team is three wins from winning the Cup, but coming back from a three-games-to-one deficit is a tall order.
“To me, that is sort of what happened, the epitome of what has happened to this franchise”, said winger-turned-broadcaster Craig Laughlin, who came to Washington in the Langway trade and never left. “Right now it’s the worst feeling ever”.
But if storybook endings never really appear and they’re just someone’s way of leading us to a conclusion, a room full of players not wanted by their previous teams directed Las Vegas on the most incredible of voyages before it ended with another team celebrating.
– Their power-play is 2 for 12 in this series, a trend which continues from the prior series where they were 2 for 11.
BC-HKN-Stanley Cup, 1st Ld, 128URGENTCapitals beat Golden Knights 4-3, win their 1st Stanley CupAP Photo NVMT141, NVMT126, NVMT131, NVMT132, NVMT110, NVMT137, NVMT109, NVMT108, NVMT133Eds: APNewsNow. But the Golden Knights refused to go down with a fight.
“Maybe because we’ve talked about it so much”, Caps defenseman John Carlson said. “Don’t you think that President Trump deservedly gets credit for this strong economy, that it’s not just a byproduct of what’s going on globally?” We worked so hard through all the years and we were together. “Every day was fun for us”. “They were a good hockey team, they deserve the Stanley Cup”.
Advertisement
Expansion teams in Australia tend to be given a fair leg up with concessionary draft picks – and to an extent that was the case for the Knights here.
