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There has only been one goal on 14 all-time penalty shots in the Stanley Cup Final. Who would have thought Mitch Marner not scoring to make it 5-0 would be so pivotal?

Out of nowhere, the Hurricanes turned a 4-0 deficit into a 4-3 deficit with three goals in 39 seconds by Jordan Martinook, Taylor Hall and Jordan Staal.

Martinook opened the scoring for Carolina with a goal off the forecheck. He jumped on a puck behind the Vegas net, curled around the crease, and slipped it underneath Carter Hart’s outstretched pad to make it 4-1.

Seconds later, Hall redirected a one-timer past Hart on the backdoor off a perfect feed from Aho. It was his sixth of the postseason, tying him with Nikolaj Ehlers for the most on the team. Then Staal tipped a shot by Jaccob Slavin from the point on a brilliant play in front of the net to pull the Hurricanes within a goal.

Staal joined Brad Marchand as the second player age 37 or older to score in the first three games of a Stanley Cup Final. Marchand did so last year against Edmonton during Florida’s second straight Stanley Cup bid.

It was the fastest three goals in Stanley Cup Final history and the fifth time a team scored three times that quickly in any playoff game.

When Andrei Svechnikov tied the score with 1:52 left after Shea Theodore put the puck in the stands, it made Brandon Bussi the goalie of record — amazingly.