{"id":736659,"date":"2026-06-14T20:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T20:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/736659\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T20:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T20:18:09","slug":"golden-knights-have-experience-to-avoid-any-panic-in-game-6-of-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/736659\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Knights have experience to avoid \u2018any panic\u2019 in Game 6 of Cup Final"},"content":{"rendered":"

Karlsson is out for Game 6<\/a> after sustaining what appeared to be an upper-body injury in the second period of a 4-2 loss in Game 5 on Thursday. Smith, who hasn\u2019t played since the Western Conference First Round, could replace\u00a0Karlsson; he has 85 points (29 goals, 56 assists) in 123 playoff games and won the Cup with Vegas in 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, we\u2019ve had a lot of experienced players in this room,\u201d\u00a0Barbashev said. \u201cI think our group is older than most teams. I think we\u2019ve done it all season long, just staying with it. We\u2019ve had some tough stretches during the season, and I think it\u2019s going to help us moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tomas Hertl<\/a>\u00a0didn\u2019t play for the San Jose Sharks when they lost to the Penguins in Game 6 of the 2016 Cup Final; the forward sustained a lower-body injury in Game 2 and missed the rest of the series. But Hertl, who was in his third NHL season at the time, felt the loss as much as anyone.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s got another chance at the Cup and wants a happier ending this time. But the Golden Knights must first force a Game 7, which would be played at\u00a0Lenovo Center in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou never know if you\u2019re coming back to the Final,\u201d\u00a0Hertl said. \u201cYou just want to play the best you can and put (in) the best performance and just be ready for Game 6.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t think about it, really. In my head, just be ready for this game. Next game is ours. That\u2019s why we\u2019re focused only on (tonight). We have such a good hockey team, and even after two losses, we\u2019ve still played some good hockey. I know with this group, I know we can force it to a Game 7.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Karlsson is out for Game 6 after sustaining what appeared to be an upper-body injury in the second…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-736659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}