Hurricanes close in on Stanley Cup success as they beat the Golden Knights to take 3-2 lead

[p]The [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/carolina-hurricanes/Sx0gl0tm/"]Hurricanes[/a] [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/game/hockey/carolina-hurricanes-Sx0gl0tm/vegas-golden-knights-fTT0TsUg/?mid=80ixZjYp"]seized a 3-2 lead[/a] in the best-of-seven championship series and will try to close it out on the road in Las Vegas on Sunday.[/p][p]"[b]It required everything we have,[/b]" Hurricanes captain [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/staal-jordan/nybJM7z7/"]Jordan Staal[/a] told broadcaster ESPN. "[b]I thought everyone in the group all through the lineup was dialed in tonight.[/b][/p][p]"I[b]t required everything, and it's going to require everything to finish this off.[/b]"[/p][p]Staal scored for the fifth straight game, [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/aho-sebastian/dvL9PWjc/"]Sebastian Aho[/a] added a goal and Carolina goaltender [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/bussi-brandon/YXCZz0JU/"]Brandon Bussi[/a] made 22 saves in his second straight start - becoming the first goalie in NHL history to make his first two career playoff starts in the Stanley Cup Final and win both.[/p][p][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/dorofeyev-pavel/4YwjaJ5r/"]Pavel Dorofeyev[/a] scored twice for Vegas, his power play goal less than even minutes into the opening period putting the [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/vegas-golden-knights/fTT0TsUg/"]Golden Knights[/a] up 1-0.[/p][p]Staal struck less than five minutes later, redirecting a [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/ehlers-nikolaj/YJ2gELK1/"]Nikolaj Ehlers[/a] shot past Golden Knights goalie [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/hart-carter/jeyiztUC/"]Carter Hart[/a] and into the net.[/p][embed guid="d8b855c8-490c-4599-854e-f1a3a5a9a0d7" url="https://x.com/NHL/status/2065266132680945693?s=20" social-type="twitter" /][p]Staal became the fifth player to have a five-game goal streak in the Stanley Cup Final and just the fourth to score in five straight games to start a Cup Final.[/p][p][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/svechnikov-andrei/6DbeHrlr/"]Svechnikov[/a] gave Carolina a 2-1 lead with a power-play goal from the top of the left circle at 11:58 of the second period and Aho pushed the lead to 3-1 at 17:51.[/p][p]Svechnikov's second power-play goal, from in front of the right post at 13:49 of the second made it 4-1.[/p][p]But Dorofeyev clawed one back with his second goal of the night at 13:49 of the third.[/p][p]That raised the tension at the Lenovo Center in Raleigh, North Carolina, where fans were well aware that the series had seen multi-goal deficits erased in each of the first four games.[/p][p]But the Hurricanes held on to move one win away from a second Stanley Cup title to go with the one they won back in 2006.[/p][p]The Golden Knights, who won their only Stanley Cup in 2023, were without [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/karlsson-william/b9UERUIr/"]William Karlsson[/a] for much of the contest after the center exited in the second period with an apparent arm injury.[/p][embed guid="f796de1a-d545-4140-a6ff-3508011e79c5" url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMAQwErd2Iw&pp=ygUDbmhs" social-type="youtube" /]