Can someone who knows hockey better than me explain HOW we won 3 in a row to win the cup?
The first half of the series felt pretty hopeless in my opinion. We snuck one OT win, but lost game one after a strong start through getting outpaced the longer the game went on (something Vegas had done a number of times to get to the cup). Our incredible defense which SMOTHERED every other team, had holes poked in it by the vgk right at the start, and even game 3 where we built insane momentum we just couldn’t see it through, all after getting solidly outplayed for 98% of the game. Not to downplay the reigning Stanley cup champions, but I feel like we were a team that succeeded through an incredible system built by Tulsky and ran by Rod the Bod, and Vegas just had our number for the start of the series.
Then we won three in a row to seal the series. We went from a team that allowed very few shots for every past team, to getting outshot by Vegas, to not allowing them to shoot once for 15 minutes in game 6. The change in goaltending is a big part of that, but Carolina was far and away the dominant team for the second half of the series. What else happened that gave us the win?
Edit: Thanks for all the responses yall, I understand a lot better now