GAME 3
1. Quick, find Ovechkin. The Golden Knights can’t in time, and he dives to roof Game 3’s opening goal past Fleury.
2. In a season with a strange and unexpected Cup-final pairing, Sting and Shaggy onstage together feels right.
3. The only player to beat Holtby in Game 3: Holtby, whose giveaway hands Nosek an open net and free goal.
4. Vegas’ Nosek backpedals while the Caps’ Stephenson imposes brute force. In other words, a microcosm of Game 3.
5. Nightmare fuel for the Golden Knights: the too-frequent image of Kuznetsov’s bird-wing celebration.
6. Vegas has no answer for the Caps’ consistent crease-crashing, and Fleury winds up battered as a result.
7. The Capitals’ bench and fans erupt with the realization they’re leading a Cup final series for the first time ever.
8. Devante Smith-Pelly soaks in the pleasure of delivering Game 3’s thirdperiod dagger for a two-goal lead.