Knights roar back to defeat Capitals in Game 1
The Las Vegas Golden Knights are three wins from a championship in their first season in existence. They beat the Washington Capitals on Monday in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final, 6-4.
The difference in the game wasn’t Marc-Andre Fleury, Braden Holtby, or Alex Ovechkin. Instead, it was Vegas’ fourth-line forwards.
They scored all three of the Knights’ goals in the third period, which turned a 4-3 Washington lead into a win for the home team.
Ryan Reaves scored a game-tying goal 2:41 into the third, a minute and a half after Tom Wilson put the Capitals in front. Tomas Nosek scored twice after that, including once into an empty net to seal the result for Vegas.
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Before Nosek’s empty-netter, the Capitals came inches away from tying the game in a six-on-five situation.
Wilson set up Lars Eller in front of the Golden Knights’ net, but Vegas defenseman Brayden McNabb bothered Eller just enough to get him to fan on the puck and squander a golden scoring chance.
