Breaking news: The Golden Knights beat the Panthers, 9-3, on Tuesday night in Las Vegas to claim the NHL title, their first in a young but charmed history.
After the Panthers cut a two-goal deficit to just one early in the second period, the Golden Knights blew the game open with four unanswered tallies before the period ended, including a goal by Michael Amadio with just 1.2 seconds left that gave them a commanding 6-1 lead.
Still in a desperate situation after that pair of tallies, Florida pulled goalie Sergei Bobrovsky with more than 6½ minutes to go, allowing Stone to send his third goal into an empty net after tallies in each of the first two periods, including one with his team shorthanded. The game was delayed for a few minutes as hats rained down on the ice, and when it resumed, Bobrovsky was back in net.
In taking a mere six seasons to win it all, the Knights topped a mark held by the Philadelphia Flyers, whose 1974 Cup win came seven years after they were part of the six-team 1967 expansion that doubled the size of the NHL and began its modern era. The Oilers took just five seasons to get a championship after joining the NHL in 1979, but they had already existed for several years in the defunct WHA.
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