from Steve Carp of the Las Vegas Review-Journal,

The Golden Knights have suddenly lost their way offensively.

The failure to effectively forecheck, create quality scoring chances and sustain control in the Washington Capitals’ zone has the Knights trailing the Stanley Cup Final 2-1 after the Capitals dominated Game 3 on Saturday in a 3-1 victory at Capital One Arena.

“I think they’re winning a lot of 50-50 battles, the little ones that go a long way at the end of a game,” center Cody Eakin said. After scoring six goals in Game 1, the Knights have just three goals in two games. “They’re keeping us to the outside, surrounding us, outnumbering us and we’re not getting enough pucks to the net,” Eakin said.

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from Chris Johnston of Sportsnet,

Twenty years they’ve waited. Thirteen of them he’s pushed and fought and wondered whether a night like this would ever arrive.

And, wouldn’t you know it, the most iconic moment of a long-overdue return to hosting the Stanley Cup Final had nothing to do with Alex Ovechkin

It was when teammate Evgeny Kuznetsov went post-and-in for the eventual winner that we saw the true emotional release. For a city and an organization and its beloved superstar.

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