Marner’s Block Turns Vegas’ Game 1 Into a Gut Punch

Vegas gets the first swing in the Stanley Cup Final, and the story of the night is the kind of greasy, winning-play coaches replay a hundred times. Mitch Marner makes the kind of block that lives forever in a room full of veterans and scars, because the Final has a way of turning one sequence into a whole mood. The pressure in Game 1 always exposes who can survive the ugly minutes, and Vegas just found another reason why its bench believes it can bend this series its way.