Vegas won the fourth game of the NHL final series 3–2 and is just one victory away from the championship. Florida’s Finnish players were perfectly on display.
The Vegas Golden Knights have won the fourth match of the NHL final series 3–2 and now lead the series with match wins 3–1. The championship is on hiatus for Vegas for the first time, when the series returns to Vegas in three days.
Vegas took the lead after only about two minutes when the striker Michael Stephenson swept into the Florida area and the Russian keeper tapped the game tool Sergei Bobrovsky past.
Vegas was there at the beginning of the match and was clinical in the finish. In the first half of the second period, Stephenson waved the net again by Mark Stone for a perfect pass.
A few minutes later, the Swedish striker who wants to play great playoffs William Karlsson hit the return puck.
Sports expert Ismo Lehkonen praised what Vegas did at the second break.
– We are pretty much drowned with no swimming skills, he first referred to Florida’s performance in the first two sets.
– Vegas has set up such a game style clinic. Here is the best club team in the world at the five-point level. They attack so strongly on the puck and immediately anticipate when the game is about to turn in their favor, Lehkonen summed up Vegas’ winning recipe.
Florida hit a 1-3 narrow goal at the end of the second period in a lucky way. Brandon Montour the shot went through a Vegas defender and into the away team’s goal. Finnish captain To Aleksander Barkov an assist was scored.
Performances were expected from Barkov and they came. At the beginning of the third period Anton Lundell and Brandon Montour shivered and Barkov hit his first hit of the final series.
Barkov and Lundell were Florida’s clearly more upbeat section. Lundell was a big threat on the offensive end.
Barkov scored 1+1 and Lundell scored one goal. Eetu Luostarinen was sidelined again due to injury.
At the end, Florida tried furiously to equalize without a goalkeeper and got the upper hand for another 17 seconds. Vegas goaltender Adin Hill however, it lasted and the final scores remained at 2–3.