Third Stanley Cup Final In Nine Years Arrives Tonight In Las Vegas: VGK vs Carolina In Game 3


   Story by Alan Snel    Photos by Hugh Byrne and Tyge O’Donnell

LAS VEGAS, Nevada — This wild roller-coaster ride of an NHL championship series resumes at T-Mobile Arena just off the Strip Saturday night here in Sin City.

With both the Vegas Golden Knights and the Carolina Hurricanes teams overcoming 2-0 deficits and each stealing a win in comeback fashion in Games 1 and 2. VGK forward Cole Smith said it comes down to managing the momentum swings through 60 minutes of skating.

The Knights have hosted Stanley Cup Finals in 2018 and 2023, with this season’s arrival is the third Cup Finals appearance in nine years for this high-performing expansion franchise owned by billionaire businessman and wine industry leader Bill Foley.

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Levy Restaurants, the T-Mobile Arena food and bev contractor, hav rolled out three dishes for the Stnley Cup Finals.

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The most unexpected goal-scoring news is the fact that VGK’s Brett Howden has turned into a goal-producing machine with 13 goals in the postseason after a dozen in the regular season.

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Alan Snel

Alan Snel brings decades of sports-business reporting experience to LVSportsBiz.com. Snel covered the business side of sports for the South Florida (Fort Lauderdale) Sun-Sentinel, the Tampa Tribune and Las Vegas Review-Journal. As a city hall beat reporter, Snel also covered stadium deals in Denver and Seattle. In 2000, Snel launched a sport-business website for FoxSports.com called FoxSportsBiz.com. After reporting sports-business for the RJ, Snel wrote hard-hitting stories on the Raiders stadium for the Desert Companion magazine in Las Vegas and The Nevada Independent. Snel is also one of the top bicycle advocates in the country.