Jun 5, 2026 · 57 min · 13 segments
The Stanley Cup Finals are underway! After winning Game 1 in Carolina, the VGK were poised to win Game 2 last night. And with 10 minutes to go in the 3rd period, suddenly everything changed…
Eddie RivkinHost
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The whole world expected that Carolina was gonna get shot out of a cannon, and they were.
The bottom line is they were down two-nothing 10 minutes ago in the game, and I could, I could hear the tears of the Vegas Golden Knights fan base.
But like the Golden Knights seem to do, they seem to be like a boxer who takes the first couple rounds and just sort of sees what the opponent's gonna do.
And they admitted that they weren't quite prepared for the speed that, that they had coming in, but they slowly but surely understood what was going to come at them and they made the adjustments.
Shea Theodore redeemed himself with a huge goal later in the first period to cut the, the lead to two-se- to 2-1.
That was probably the worst period we've seen from the Golden Knights in a long, long time.
What, what did you make of it? Were, were they nervous? Were they unprepared? Or did they just shit the bed a little bit and then decided, "Okay, enough is enough.
You know, when you, whenever you start a playoff series against a team that you don't play very often, you never know what you're going to get out of Carolina, and Vegas was a team that had to travel across the country.
Now, there are different thought processes from players I've talked to that have played in the Stanley Cup Final where they almost prefer to start on the road because they don't have the distractions.
But what I took away overall, couple things, Vegas continues to get quick goals, and that's what they did.
Yes, it was one at the end of the first period, one at the start of the second kinda thing, but those are considered quick goals.
We saw a team that while they would sit back and watch what the other team was gonna do, this team versus the 70, first 74 games, like we've talked about, turned it around.
The whole world expected that Carolina was gonna get shot out of a cannon, and they were.
The bottom line is they were down two-nothing 10 minutes ago in the game, and I could, I could hear the tears of the Vegas Golden Knights fan base.
But like the Golden Knights seem to do, they seem to be like a boxer who takes the first couple rounds and just sort of sees what the opponent's gonna do.
And they admitted that they weren't quite prepared for the speed that, that they had coming in, but they slowly but surely understood what was going to come at them and they made the adjustments.
Shea Theodore redeemed himself with a huge goal later in the first period to cut the, the lead to two-se- to 2-1.
That was probably the worst period we've seen from the Golden Knights in a long, long time.
What, what did you make of it? Were, were they nervous? Were they unprepared? Or did they just shit the bed a little bit and then decided, "Okay, enough is enough.
You know, when you, whenever you start a playoff series against a team that you don't play very often, you never know what you're going to get out of Carolina, and Vegas was a team that had to travel across the country.
Now, there are different thought processes from players I've talked to that have played in the Stanley Cup Final where they almost prefer to start on the road because they don't have the distractions.
But what I took away overall, couple things, Vegas continues to get quick goals, and that's what they did.
Yes, it was one at the end of the first period, one at the start of the second kinda thing, but those are considered quick goals.
We saw a team that while they would sit back and watch what the other team was gonna do, this team versus the 70, first 74 games, like we've talked about, turned it around.
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