Vegas Survives the Refs and Stomps Carolina in Game 3

And then hockey did what hockey does. The Knights stopped feeling sorry for themselves, Mitch Marner went to work, and suddenly the rink flipped. Itchy for Mitchy, 2-0 Vegas in a blink, and the whole rigged-refs narrative got shelved in real time.

Barstool Sports

@barstoolsports

ITCHY FOR MITCHY 2-0 VEGAS IN A BLINK

Of course, Portnoy being Portnoy, he immediately pivoted from RIGGED to remember-everybody-the-2-goal-lead-is-the-worst-lead-in-sports. Games 1 and 2 of this series both saw the team up 2-0 lose. You can't make this stuff up. But this time Vegas didn't blink — they kept pouring it on, and by the time the second period was wrapping, the only bad omen left was the one wearing red. BigCat called it in real time: the ass-kicking was happening, just not to the team he was worried about.

Big Cat

@BarstoolBigCat

Guess it was…for Carolina. Ass kicking 2nd period

From two goals down on the scoresheet that should've been, to a 2-0 lead, to a full-on second-period beatdown — Game 3 was the kind of swing that defines a Cup Final. The refs giveth, the refs taketh, and then Marner makes them all irrelevant anyway.