from Iain MacIntyre of Sportsnet,

Asked if the net looks big to him these days, Jonathan Marchessault was appalled.

“It's actually pretty small,” he said Wednesday, viewing the questioner as if he had just arrived on the redeye from Mars. “Bobrovsky is pretty big in there, no? They need to make those nets bigger.”

Perhaps. But the net has seemed cavernous for both Florida Panthers goalie Sergei Bobrovsky and Marchessault, the Vegas Golden Knights shooter who has scored three times in the first two games of the Stanley Cup Final.

Even at five-foot-nine, Marchessault is figuratively the larger of the two players at the moment. His pair of goals in Vegas’ 7-2 blowout win in Game 2 on Monday – both on world-class finishes – gave the 32-year-old 12 goals in his last 12 playoff games.

This production has brought the winger into Conn Smythe Trophy conjecture, although the MVP race is still too close to call if Vegas wins because the Knights’ ideology and deep lineup make it difficult (and unnecessary) for any one player to dominate.

But no one in the National Hockey League has been more offensively prolific the last month than Marchessault.

His 19 points the last dozen games are four more than the next nearest playoff scorer...

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