2023-06-04 04:39:00
The Florida Panthers didn’t let Game 1 go without showing their claws. However, they did not opt for legality, but the Golden Knights were able to avoid responding to their indiscipline.
Vegas also took advantage of two power plays of the seven offered by Florida to score goals to take the honors of the first game of the Stanley Cup Final 5-2 on Saturday.
However, an incident at the end of the match could easily have degenerated when after a whistle with a delay of 4 to 2, Marc Staal retained Nicolas Hague. We then see Matthew Tkachuk come and punch him while the Vegas player is helpless.
Quebecer Jonathan Marchessault, who scored his 10e playoff goal in the game, took a few seconds to describe this kind of situation and the trap set for them by the Panthers. He finally let out an expression very specific to Quebec on the subject.
“We want to keep the same game plan and start over at each whistle. We don’t want to be put in the “shit” with the junk after the whistles. If we do that, we’ll be able to get a little more success,” Marchessault said after the win.
“It was silly. It’s a two-goal game and there were four minutes left at the end. I think the referees did a good job of that. We wanted to play hockey to win and that’s what we did tonight.
Marchessault admitted that it was not easy to resist the temptation to reply, having been confronted by Tkachuk directly earlier in the game.
He likes the atmosphere for the Stanley Cup final, but he repeats that his team must not deviate from the game plan.
“I’m a little sorry. He came to give me a kick on the wrist and I gave him one. Him after that, it excites him. I told myself that I didn’t want to be involved in this. »
“You’re playing for the Stanley Cup, if there’s no intensity, it’s not a Stanley Cup game. Tonight it was and it was fun to be part of it, ”he said.
Vegas gave the Panthers three powerplays, but the penalty kill unit remained perfect.
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