Las Vegas – While the players of Vegas Golden Knights and Minnesota Wild left the ice and headed for the locker room after match 1 Sunday evening, the dashboard has always read 3-2 in favor of the Golden Knights.
Vegas coach Bruce Cassidy had already returned to her office and was high-level video coach Dave Rogowski when the final score was updated at 4-2.
In the decreasing moments of the game, the striker of the Golden Knights Brett Howden pulled the washer the length of the ice in the empty net of the minnesota. Initially, he seemed to be after the final buzzer. The dashboards inside T-Mobile Arena all read 3-2 well after the players went to the locker room.
After an exam, the officials determined that the shooting of 144 feet from Howden crossed the goal line with a tenth of a second remaining on the match clock.
“I had no idea,” said Cassidy. “I saw the green light going to the other end, so I thought it was too late. It was unimportant. It was good for Howden’s statistics. It was good for our power game statistics. Other than that, nobody will remember it.”
Well, there could be a few other people who remember it: sports bettors who had bets on the game.
Howden de Howden’s scoring passed the total of the match from five to six goals, which does it on the Paris line of 5.5 goals. According to Betmgm, 63% of the total of the bets on the match took over, so these tickets all passed from losers to the winners when Howden received the goal.
The score has also extended Vegas’ victory margin from a two -way goal, which is important for bettors. For those who do not know betting in hockey, bettors can take a team to the “washer line” by fixing 1.5 goals, which means that the team must earn at least two goals in order to collect the bet. In the Sunday evening match, 90% of the bets on the washer line were on the Golden Knights, so in large, it was a great evening for sports bettors.
It was a very strange game. The scores beating the buzzer are not new in a sport like basketball, but they are rarely seen in hockey – especially this close to the horn. The point where the washer crossed the line was so close to the clock by hitting 0.0 that the television broadcast had no frame showing the washer inside the net over time on the clock.
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“So now, I say to myself:” Well, will they drop the washer with 0.1 seconds, and should I be in the building if they do that? “”, Joked Cassidy.
With all the players already in their respective changing rooms, the managers have decided to assign the goal to Vegas, but jump the playing game that followed to execute the remaining 0.1 seconds of time.
It was a strange situation, a situation rarely seen in hockey. In the large scheme of things, it is not relevant with regard to the eliminatory series, but a lot of money has changed hands based on 100 milliseconds and a blurred frame of the puck inside the net.
(Photo of Brett Howden: Stephen R. Sylvanie / Images Imagn)
