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By AARON BEARD<\/strong> AP Sports Writer<\/p>\n

RALEIGH, N.C. \u2014 Tomas Hertl took a backhand pass from Colton Sisson and beat Frederik Andersen from the slot with 3:24 left in the third period, lifting the Vegas Golden Knights past the Carolina Hurricanes, 5-4, in Tuesday night\u2019s opener of the Stanley Cup Final.<\/p>\n

Hertl\u2019s finish off Sisson\u2019s feed from the right faceoff circle broke a 4-4 tie and pushed the Golden Knights ahead in an entertaining back-and-forth start on the sport\u2019s biggest stage. It marked Vegas\u2019 seventh straight win of the playoffs, starting with the last two games of the six-game second-round series against the Ducks and then the shocking four-game sweep of the Presidents\u2019 Trophy-winning Colorado Avalanche.<\/p>\n

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That series included Vegas erasing a 3-0 deficit to take Game 3, and now the Golden Knights have followed by rallying from another multigoal deficit \u2013 this time 2-0 in the opening period \u2013 against the team that finished second only to the Avs in the regular season.<\/p>\n

Game 2 of the best-of-seven series is Thursday in Raleigh, with Vegas already having taken home-ice away from the Hurricanes as it chases a second Cup title in four seasons.<\/p>\n

Shea Theodore, Ivan Barbashev, William Karlsson and Brett Howden also scored for Vegas, with Howden\u2019s postseason-leading 11th score giving the Golden Knights a 4-3 lead just 1:21 into the third period. Carter Hart finished with 23 saves.<\/p>\n

Nikolaj Ehlers scored twice for the Hurricanes, the first coming 25 seconds into the game when he got loose and a rush and blasted one past Hart from the left side on the game\u2019s first shot. He followed with a breakaway that gave Carolina a 2-0 lead and sent a charged home crowd into an eruption in the team\u2019s first Stanley Cup Final game in two decades.<\/p>\n

Jordan Staal and Shayne Gostisbehere each scored tying goals after Vegas had pushed to a lead, with Gostisbehere skating in clean on the left side to blast one past Hart at 11:19 of the third period and tie it once more at 4-all.<\/p>\n

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The Hurricanes went 12-1 through three rounds to get back to the Stanley Cup Final for the first time since Coach Rod Brind\u2019Amour captained them to the title in 2006. It also comes amid an eight-year playoff streak that has included at least one series win every time as a regular postseason contender.<\/p>\n

Carolina swept through Ottawa and Philadelphia before taking the last four games of a five-game win against Montreal to\u00a0punch through an Eastern Conference Final roadblock. That made the Hurricanes the first team since 1983 to reach the Stanley Cup Final with one loss, and the first since the NHL went to best-of-seven series in all four rounds in 1987.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Vegas had been getting stronger with every playoff round, winning for 19 of 24 games going back to the unexpected late-season firing of Bruce Cassidy to hire John Tortorella as coach. That included the shocking result against the Avalanche, who managed just seven goals in four games.<\/p>\n

Defense had been the standout feature\u00a0for both teams, in fact, with Carolina having allowed two or fewer goals in 12 of 13 playoff games. But that wasn\u2019t the case in Tuesday\u2019s fast-paced series opener, with both teams capitalizing on their chances in an entertaining back-and-forth game before Hertl got Vegas the lead for good.<\/p>\n

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More to come on this story.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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