William Carlson with the decisive goal
sunrise. The Golden Knights have a chance to win and can become Stanley Cup champions at home in Las Vegas on Wednesday night.
They won their fourth Final in the match against the Florida Panthers – after a decisive goal in the game by William Carlson.
“We’ve got a good starting position, but we haven’t won anything yet and we’re not thinking about anything but trying to win another game,” says the 30-year-old from Marsta when we meet him after the final whistle.
Yes, it adds up by far the greatest sporting moment in the history of the gambling city of Las Vegas – yes, perhaps the greatest moment of all.
Bucklan will be at T-Mobile Arena on Tuesday — Wednesday night, Swedish time — and if the Golden Knights beat the Florida Panthers again, they’ll be champions for the first time.
Because they came back after losing in the last round on Thursday against the Panthers at FLA Live in Sunrise and won game tonight 3-2.
For a while it looked like they were going to completely run over the Cats, as they were leading 3-0 halfway through the period. But Brandon Montour got a serendipitous puck just before the second period, Alexander Barkov dropped back a bit into the third and then went on a dangerous pursuit of another miraculous turnaround.
However, the Knights fought back and won 3-2.
“You haven’t won anything yet.”
Even now, the desert native of Nevada is taking a deep breath in anticipation of that historic moment.
Although William Carlson did not want to hear about it …
“We’ve got a good starting position, but we haven’t won anything yet,” he says when we meet him outside the visitors’ dressing room.
– It’s not over yet. Florida overturned a 1-3 deficit against Boston. So we keep going one match at a time, haha. This is the mindset that matters.
“relief”
‘Wild Bill’ scored himself his first goal in this year’s final midway through the second half – and ended up being the deciding factor.
It’s a relief to get a clean sheet in the final. I’ve had good opportunities in previous games too, so yeah, it’s nice to put it out there.
In total in the playoffs this year, the 30-year-old from Marsta has scored eleven goals and with that is just three short of Daniel Alfredsson’s Swedish record, set during the Ottawa Senators’ trip to the final in 2007.
For Florida, the situation is now so precarious, they must win the next game relentlessly to keep the finals alive, but here driver Matthew Tkachuk – who has a hand injury and played sparingly in the night’s duel – doesn’t look so panicked.
– We’re not thinking about anything but winning the next game and forcing them back to Florida. That’s what we did against Boston and that’s what we’ll do now, he says.