Golden Knights beat Hurricanes in double OT Game 3, one of the wildest Stanley Cup Final games of all-time

The Stanley Cup Final shifted to Las Vegas for Game 3 with the Vegas Golden Knights and Carolina Hurricanes knotted astatine 1-1 aft splitting the opening 2 games successful Raleigh.

And, arsenic you'd expect from the Golden Knights, this 1 got started with immoderate theatrics, positive a small assistance from the city's latest anticipation astatine quarterback, who was getting successful connected the festivities.

That's right. Who amended to enactment connected siren work than Raiders draught prime and reigning Heisman Trophy victor Fernando Mendoza?

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There was a large astonishment erstwhile the crippled got underway: Golden Knights defenseman Brayden McNabb — who took a slapshot consecutive to the look connected Thursday successful Game 2 — was successful the Vegas lineup, albeit with a afloat cage.

It goes without saying, but hockey players are conscionable built different.

The archetypal play was carnal but yet scoreless, with Carolina getting much violative opportunities, starring Vegas successful shots 7-2.

Vegas skipper Mark Stone recovered the backmost of the nett conscionable 36 seconds into the 2nd period; however, it was ruled offside aft a Carolina challenge.

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A fewer minutes later, Golden Knights guardant Jack Eichel recovered the backmost of the net, but Carolina challenged this extremity arsenic good aft Vegas' Ivan Barbashev made interaction with Canes goalie Frederik Andersen's head.

It was different cut-and-dried reappraisal that kept a Golden Knights tally disconnected the board.

The archetypal punishment of the nighttime was a self-inflicted one, erstwhile the Hurricanes were called for excessively galore men, and it didn't instrumentality agelong for Tomas Hertl to marque them pay.

Then, conscionable moments aboriginal — 16 seconds to beryllium nonstop — Mitch Marner was credited with a extremity aft Carolina defenseman Sean Walker tipped his changeable into the backmost of his ain net.

But, hey, those ain goals are nary fun; Marner wanted to get 1 the old-fashioned way, which helium did.

What's that, you privation more?

Well, Mitch Marner — who is having the playoffs of his beingness — had much for you.

That's right, Marner potted a chapeau instrumentality successful conscionable six minutes and 10 seconds. That's an NHL record.

Although, I stake The Rocket's archetypal extremity of his lightning-quick hatty wasn't an ain goal, but hey, they number the same.

Vegas prima Mitch Marner took implicit successful the 2nd play of Game 3 with a earthy chapeau instrumentality successful conscionable six minutes and 10 seconds. (Photo by David Becker/NHLI via Getty Images)

What a performance. Maybe helium was conscionable doing that truthful that the adjacent clip the squad puts him connected a rally towel it really looks similar him.

After the 2nd intermission, Andersen was pulled successful favour of Brand Bussi, who made his Stanley Cup Playoffs debut.

Carolina was successful a authorities of disarray successful the third, and aft going connected a powerfulness play, Sebastian Aho slashed Marner, who was headed to the nett connected a short-handed breakaway.

Marner was awarded a punishment shot, but Bussi didn't springiness him overmuch to sprout at, and Marner missed his effort connected the backhand.

While it whitethorn person looked bleak aft a ascendant 2nd for Vegas, successful the third, Carolina dropped the fastest 3 goals successful Stanley Cup Final past to marque it a game. (Photo by Josh Lavallee/NHLI via Getty Images))

Carolina's Jordan Martinook got the Hurricanes connected the committee a small nether halfway done the 3rd play to marque it 4-1.

Just moments later, Taylor Hall tacked connected different 1 to chopped Vegas' pb to 4-2.

And, portion they're doing goals, however astir you conscionable propulsion a Jordan Staal tally successful there?

Carolina scored those 3 goals successful 39 seconds, the fastest 3 goals by a azygous squad successful Stanley Cup Final history, making what looked similar a no-doubt Vegas triumph into a crippled erstwhile again.

Carolina killed disconnected a delay-of-game penalty, which was important for staying successful the game.

Then, Vegas' Shea Theodore airmailed a puck into the stands for hold of game, giving Carolina a precocious powerfulness play.

Then — arsenic if it couldn't get wilder — Andrei Svechnikov tied the crippled connected the powerfulness play and with the goalie pulled.

And with that, it was disconnected to overtime for the 2nd crippled successful a row.

In the other frame, some teams got their stock of chances and opportunities to enactment a pin successful this 1 and deed the craps tables, but the archetypal overtime play didn't output a winner.

In the 2nd overtime, we yet got a winner, and arsenic chaotic arsenic this crippled was, it was lone fitting that the game-winner would beryllium unbelievable.

That's the aforesaid Shea Theodore, by the way, who skied the puck into the stands to acceptable up the tying goal, and helium did it aft 39 minutes of crystal time.

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Vegas players Brett Howden (21), Shea Theodore (center), and Mitch Marner (93) observe the game-winning extremity successful treble overtime. (Lucas Peltier-Imagn Images)

What. A. Game.

I deliberation aft this one, Game 4 — which volition beryllium connected Tuesday successful Las Vegas — is officially assignment viewing.